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Championing environment, Francis takes aim global capitalism

2015-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: The encyclical on the environment that Pope Francis released on Thursday is as much an indictment of the global economic order as it is an argument for the world to confront climate change. It offers blistering criticism of 21st-century capitalism, expressing skepticism about market forces, criticizing consumerism and cautioning about the costs of growth. But where Francis environmental and economic agendas meet, he leaves something of a paradox, and ammunition potentially for both sides in the...

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John Hoffmire: Reclaiming capitalism

2015-05-05 06:12:05| Grocery - Topix.net

In a barber's chair, you can get an earful from your neighbor. On a Saturday on a recent visit to the states, I got a rather bleak state of the union address as told by Bob, a Chicago native in his fifties, to his haircutter, Afif, a recent immigrant from Dubai.

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Water, Capitalism and Catastrophism

2015-04-17 04:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

CounterPunch: Two films concerned with water and environmental activism arrive in New York this week. Groundswell Rising, which premieres at the Maysles Theater in Harlem today, is about the struggle to safeguard lakes and rivers from fracking while Revolution, which opens at the Cinema Village next Wednesday, documents the impact of global warming on the oceans. Taking the holistic view, one can understand how some of the most basic conditions of life are threatened by a basic contradiction. Civilization,...

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