Abandoning the middle class, governments lose legitimacy

Susan Sarandon at Occupy Wall Street

People who care about climate change and peak oil have long despaired of convincing their national governments to take decisive action or even, in some cases, to acknowledge that there’s a problem. Now, the world’s democracies seem to be losing the confidence of their citizens to deal with the economic crisis too. Following on the [...]

Why adbusting is more important than ever

Culture Jam cover

Culture Jam: How to Reverse America’s Suicidal Consumer Binge and Why We Must is not a new book — it first came out in 1999. But given how important it will be to the world’s climate and energy future to dislodge Big Oil, Big Coal and other polluting corporations from control of government — and [...]

Coal industry punk’d by hilarious spoof website

Kidz Koal Korner

“Why free inhalers? Because COAL CARES. For kids who have no choice but to use an inhaler, Coal Cares™ lets them inhale with pride,” announces a website that claims to be “a goodwill campaign from your neighbors at Peabody Coal.” But Coal Cares is actually a spoof done in the culture-jamming style of Adbusters or [...]