Our Environmental Footprints

Jeffery St Clair disagrees with his co-editor, Alexander Cockburn, over at Counterpunch - The Earth is Warming, We Did It, Gore Won't Solve It

Here's where my skepticism comes in. Humans have contributed to global warming, but seem utterly incapable of solving. Al Gore offers rhetoric not solutions. He had his shot for eight years and his administration couldn't even come up with an alternative energy policy. Kyoto was a hollow half measure, weakened even further by the Clinton administration, and Gore didn't even try to push that through the US Senate. Three strikes and you're out, Al Gore places most of the blame on individual consumption and not on corporate rapaciousness and the capitalist system that is driving nearly every environmental crisis, including climate change. You will search his essays, books, speech and films in vain for any sustained critique of corporate behavior. Instead, he offers the tired neoliberal approach of tax incentives and carbon credits that rewards those with the most blood on their hands.

The Independent, always a beacon of environmental reporting, has this -

Deforestation: The hidden cause of global warming