Mesoamerican Integration and Development Project Archives

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Earth

Chiapas: Corporate Polluters Lust for Trees

December 10, 2011 by The Outpost 2 comments

REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) purports to combat global warming by saving rainforests, but without reducing greenhouse gas emissions, nor putting the capitalist system and its excesses—the real causes of environmental disaster—on the table.

International Issues

Capitalist Utopia: Mexico’s “Sustainable Rural Cities”

May 6, 2011 by The Outpost 1 comment

“We see with the corn and beans we nourish ourselves; with oil palms and pine nuts they plan to produce biofuels to feed the cars and trucks. Do cars have more right to the food of Mother Earth than we do?”