From Monthly Review, John Bellamy Foster on Marx and the global environmental rift. The standoff between the US and China over carbon emissions recalls the nuclear arms race: We need a Gorbachev of climate change to break the stalemate. Bernie Sanders on why global warming is reversible: The technology exists to solve environmental problems and improve our standard of living. Ronald Bailey on techno-optimistic environmentalism: Reframing the dismal science of ecology for the 21st century. Struggling to decode Bali's message: A green jamboree in Indonesia will not achieve anything tangible, but it matters. Jeffrey Sachs on why citizens can do something about climate change. From Adbusters, once the preserve almost exclusively of environmentalists and scientists, 2007 was the year when climate change went big business — but this corporate volte-face raises some serious problems; and an article on the simple life and how to bring the land back to us. A review of Missing Mountains: We Went to the Mountaintop but It Wasn't There; Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness by Erik Reece; and Coal Hollow: Photographs and Oral Histories by Melanie Light and Ken Light.
