
December 21st, 2009Posted on EnviroNation Contrary to countless reports, the debacle in Copenhagen was not everyone's fault. It did not happen because human beings are incapable of agreeing, or are inherently self-destructive. Nor was it all was China's fault, or the fault of the hapless UN...

December 16th, 2009Published in The Nation On the ninth day of the Copenhagen climate summit, Africa was sacrificed...

December 17th, 2009Posted on EnviroNation It's the second to last day of the climate conference and I have the worst case of laryngitis of my life. I open my mouth and nothing comes out...

December 16th, 2009Posted on EnviroNation On Wednesday in Copenhagen, I interviewed Lumumba Stanislaus Di-Aping, the chief negotiator for the G77, the largest developing country bloc represented at the climate summit in Copenhagen...

December 13th, 2009On Saturday night, after a week of living off of conference center snack bars, a group of us were invited to a delicious home-cooked meal with a real live Danish family...

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Hundreds of activists from across the globe are gathering every day in downtown Copenhagen for the people's climate summit, the Klimaforum. On Thursday night, Shock Doctrine author and journalist Naomi Klein addressed a packed hall at a panel on ecological debt and climate justice. ...

December 10th, 2009Posted on EnviroNation In the U.S. plenty of bloggers have pointed to the irony of Barack Obama collecting the Peace Prize while he launches a major escalation of the war in Afghanistan...

December 8th, 2009Posted on EnviroNation The highlight of my first day at COP15 was a conversation with the extraordinary Nigerian poet and activist Nnimmo Bassey, chair of Friends of the Earth International...

November 16th, 2009Almost ten years ago, on November 30, 1999, tens of thousands of protestors shut down a meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle. The activists were not against trade or globalization, despite the many misleading claims in the mainstream media...

November 12th, 2009Published in The Nation The other day I received a pre-publication copy of The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle, by David Solnit and Rebecca Solnit...

November 11th, 2009Published in Rolling Stone One last chance to save the world—for months, that's how the United Nations summit on climate change in Copenhagen, which starts in early December, was being hyped. ...

October 15th, 2009Published in The Nation Of all the explanations for Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize, the one that rang truest came from French President Nicolas Sarkozy...

Naomi Klein Hilarious, therapeutic, inspiring. The Yes Men are geniuses.
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