Climatic changes: what is at stake?
The summer of 2003 brought a very severe drought across southern Europe. Very high temperatures were recorded, sometimes exceeding the seasonal average by 8 to 10 degrees.
The summer of 2003 brought a very severe drought across southern Europe. Very high temperatures were recorded, sometimes exceeding the seasonal average by 8 to 10 degrees.
Since last summer we have seen a widespread debate about the pros and the cons of GM products. There are people for and against GM products from all the different political shades. The bourgeois papers have been very keen on giving voice to different people in the debate. What is missing, however, is a class point of view. No one poses the question from the point of view of ordinary working people.
On December 23, 2003 the US government officially acknowledged the outbreak of BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) in a herd of cattle in the state of Washington.This is officially the first case of mad cow in the US, but is in reality the second case of an outbreak in the integrated Canadian and US cattle industry. The farming and cattle crisis is at root a reflection of the crisis of capitalism worldwide and a result of "globalization".