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Inclusive Capitalism Initiative is Trojan Horse to quell coming global revolt

2014-05-28 19:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Yesterday's Conference on Inclusive Capitalism co-hosted by the City of London Corporation and EL Rothschild investment firm, brought together the people who control a third of the world's liquid assets the most powerful financial and business elites to discuss the need for a more socially responsible form of capitalism that benefits everyone, not just a wealthy minority. Leading financiers referred to statistics on rising global inequalities and the role of banks and corporations in marginalising...

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Parisians driven to revolt by car ban in fight against pollution

2014-03-16 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The famously testy Parisians have one more reason to grumble after the French government announced that half the cars in the city would be banned from the roads, starting on Monday, in an effort to combat smog pollution. From 5.30am, a scheme of alternating driving days, based on odd and even number plates, will come into effect for cars and motorcycles after Paris pollution reached dangerous levels for five consecutive days. Even before the restrictions were announced, Parisians were given...

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United Kingdom: Marquess' claim to mining rights prompts 'peasants' revolt'

2013-11-08 20:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: A wealthy and politically powerful landowner has applied to the Land Registry to assert his "manorial" rights to extract minerals from under hundreds of properties in the London commuter belt. Lawyers acting for the Marquess of Salisbury, who owns land in Dorset, Hertfordshire and London and who is worth an estimated 300m, has written to residents in Welwyn Garden City to claim his ancestral rights, which stem from a Victorian court case. These include "market and fair rights, sporting rights...

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How Science Is Telling Us All To Revolt

2013-11-01 11:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Common Dreams: In December 2012, a pink-haired complex systems researcher named Brad Werner made his way through the throng of 24,000 earth and space scientists at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, held annually in San Francisco. This year's conference had some big-name participants, from Ed Stone of Nasa's Voyager project, explaining a new milestone on the path to interstellar space, to the film-maker James Cameron, discussing his adventures in deep-sea submersibles. But it was Werner's own...

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