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		<title>Too many people? A review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Too many people? Population, immigration and the environmental crisis Ian Angus and Simon Butler Haymarket Books, 2011 Available in Australia from Resistance Books Reviewed by Ed Lewis In about 20 years as an active supporter of the Australian Greens I&#8217;ve regularly encountered people advancing populationist points of view, which all share the starting point that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theecosocialist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3494808&amp;post=43&amp;subd=theecosocialist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Greens do not welcome Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ed Lewis A few days ago, Bob Brown said he was looking forward to joining the welcome for US President Barack Obama on his visit to Australia. He said Obama’s visit was “a much happier prospect” than the visit of George W Bush on the eve of the second Iraq war, and he would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theecosocialist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3494808&amp;post=38&amp;subd=theecosocialist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scottish climate bill &#8220;sets a new moral standard&#8221; for the industrialised world.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:34:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cam Walker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the Scottish parliament agreed on a climate change bill that sets the toughest statutory target yet established in the industrialised world. In a rare show of unity, all political parties unanimously agreed to fix the target as part of a radical bill, which also requires the Scottish government to set legally binding annual cuts [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theecosocialist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3494808&amp;post=34&amp;subd=theecosocialist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>a community response to the recession &#8211; a Green &#8216;New Deal&#8217; for Victoria?</title>
		<link>http://theecosocialist.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/a-community-response-to-the-recession-a-green-new-deal-for-victoria/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cam Walker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[a community response to the recession &#8211; a Green &#8216;New Deal&#8217; for Victoria? This is a proposal for a collaborative and integrated response to the triple crunch of recession, climate change, and peak oil. A recent poll (1) suggests that while Australians appreciate the bonuses they are getting from the federal government, they are not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theecosocialist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3494808&amp;post=33&amp;subd=theecosocialist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What paradigms beyond Cap and Trade?</title>
		<link>http://theecosocialist.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/what-paradigms-beyond-cap-and-trade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 09:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnfraserrice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Rice The Rudd government’s response to climate change is being revealed daily as more and more painfully inadequate, as it caves in steadily and surely to powerful business lobbies. This is not surprising, given that, among a multiplicity of other things, the wife of Rudd’s Chief of Staff, Sandra Eccles, is one of Canberra’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theecosocialist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3494808&amp;post=26&amp;subd=theecosocialist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Professor Matthew Connelly on why population control is a furphy</title>
		<link>http://theecosocialist.wordpress.com/2008/08/02/professor-matthew-connelly-on-why-population-control-is-a-furphy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 07:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[— Late Night Live on ABC Radio National recently ran an interview with historian Matthew Connelly, Associate Professor of History at Columbia University, who has written the first global history of the population control movement. It is a movement, he says, that has sought to remake humanity with seemingly good intentions but succeeded in causing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theecosocialist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3494808&amp;post=21&amp;subd=theecosocialist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Workers and environmentalists need a new alliance</title>
		<link>http://theecosocialist.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/workers-and-environmentalists-need-a-new-alliance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cam Walker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cam Walker Like many others, I cut my activist teeth during the Franklin River campaign of the early 1980s. Like thousands of others, I joined the blockades in south-west Tasmania and, like hundreds of others, was arrested for my troubles and spent a week in Risdon Jail. After close to a decade campaigning to save [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theecosocialist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3494808&amp;post=18&amp;subd=theecosocialist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s one born every minute</title>
		<link>http://theecosocialist.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/theres-one-born-every-minute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 01:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeff Angel gets his thanks from Morris Iemma and Mick Costa Ed Lewis Usually governments wait a decent time before, as quietly as possible, breaking promises, but the NSW government of Morris Iemma did the Total Environment Centre&#8217;s Jeff Angel no such courtesy last week when it made public its lobbying of the federal government [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theecosocialist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3494808&amp;post=17&amp;subd=theecosocialist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Resources from the Climate Change/Social Change conference</title>
		<link>http://theecosocialist.wordpress.com/2008/05/10/resources-from-the-climate-changesocial-change-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 13:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Ecosocialist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Rice The very successful Climate Change/ Social Change Conference was held recently in Sydney, and now video and audio of virtually all pleneries and workshops are now available online Much of the conference would be of interest to any who are exploring left/green convercenge. Some highlights of the site: Climate change and its social [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theecosocialist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3494808&amp;post=16&amp;subd=theecosocialist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Comments on the two ecosocialist manifestos</title>
		<link>http://theecosocialist.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/15/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 15:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane Hopkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shane Hopkinson The first ecosocialist manifesto was an attempt to introduce the notion of ecosocialism at a time when many people were wondering how the traditional left, with its focus on material progress and higher living standards for the working class and the poor could fit with measures to tackle the environmental crisis, which to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theecosocialist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3494808&amp;post=15&amp;subd=theecosocialist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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