Interview with Maggie Zhou (@ COP16)

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US Imperial Militarism, Climate Change, and Extinction

Nov 24th, 2010 in Newswire The only way to save the planet: stop the military-industrial machine! (printer-friendly pdf of this fact sheet) As it becomes increasingly clear that we’re way past the point of dangerous interference with the climate system, as more and more components of the natural world that sustains our very existence collapse, revealing the breadth and depth of our destruction, as scientists openly despair at the already triggered avalanche of what they fear is the Sixth Great Extinction, the US government, at the behest of its military-industrial-banking corporate masters, is continuing its mad quest of...

WAR = CLIMATE CHANGE = WAR = CLIMATE CHANGE…TIME TO BREAK THE CYCLE!

Nov 24th, 2010 in Featured Articles, Newswire (See 1 page pdf file of this statement, for printing) We, the undersigned, declare the following: There can be no solution to the climate crisis and no “climate justice” so long as the US military and its allies continue to pollute unabated, and to squander lives and resources. Likewise, there will be no end to war so long as global warming continues to accelerate. It’s time to break the cycle and end the death spiral! Militarism/War: Elephant in the Living Room. (Accompanying fact sheet: http://tinyurl.com/26stkfv) The US Military and their allies, through their imperial wars and military...

Comments to Presidential Commission on Synthetic Biology

Nov 23rd, 2010 in Newswire To: The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, info@bioethics.gov From: Maggie Zhou, Ph.D., Climate SOS/Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities Date: Oct 1, 2010 Dear Commission members, Thank you for this opportunity to comment on synthetic biology. I used to be a biotech believer I have a PhD in molecular biology, and also worked for 5 years in the field of bioinformatics, a.k.a. computational biology, the field that covers genomics, proteomics, etc., before devoting now full-time in climate campaigning.  I still remember the days when Craig Venter raced...

The big squeeze: Geopirating the remaining commons

Nov 23rd, 2010 in Newswire by Pat Mooney 2010-10-06, Pambazuka News As the UN General Assembly prepares for the June 2012 environmental summit in Rio de Janeiro, the global response to the current set of crises around ‘food, fuel, finance and Fahrenheit’ are giving rise to even greater commoditisation of our lives, writes Pat Mooney. In the face of new ‘shock doctrines’ around agricultural erosion, ecosystem collapse, cultural extinctions and gender ‘disappeareds’, Mooney discusses the supposed therapies and ultimate pay-offs. The UN General Assembly is preparing for a head of state summit on environmental issues in...