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Radical History Review (2010) 2010 (107): 25–43.
Published: 01 May 2010
.... Amid the growing concern over global climate change and much finger pointing among environmentalists at the oil industry and global energy producers, the main solution to global warming has been pushed along by some of these same producers and business interests. Carbon trading had its origins...
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (145): 1–11.
Published: 01 January 2023
... with corporate land grabs that rob them of access to the fields and expand massive monocultural plantations, in the process decimating wildlife and generating immense carbon emissions. Seeds of change. Seeds of hope. For millennia, seeds have been potent symbols of possibility and of the beneficial...
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Radical History Review (2010) 2010 (107): 167–177.
Published: 01 May 2010
.... The John Amos power plant near Charleston, West Virginia, looms over a neighborhood in Poca, across the Kanawha River. The Amos plant is (as of 2003) eleventh in CO2 releases, near the top in increases in carbon dioxide, and twelfth in SO2. It also emits mercury. West Virginia has long been...
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Radical History Review (2010) 2010 (107): 1–6.
Published: 01 May 2010
... States, he argues that this ideology is spreading worldwide and that its emergence in the United States has serious implications for global politics. Mart A. Stewart similarly exam- 4  Radical History Review ines green markets in his essay “Swapping Air, Trading Places: Carbon Exchange...
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Radical History Review (2010) 2010 (107): 7–24.
Published: 01 May 2010
... in environmental protection,” he said, “which uses the market to help us get our environment back on track — to recognize that Adam Smith’s invisible hand can have a green thumb.”1 Clinton’s market-based approach to environmental reform has proven enor- mously popular in this brave new world of carbon...
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Radical History Review (2013) 2013 (117): 149–152.
Published: 01 October 2013
... to the release of carcinogenic chemicals into the environment (73). In Maxwell and Miller’s account, academic publishing too plays a role in the degradation of our envi- ronment; they contend that the production of scholarly journals is responsible for 12 million tons of carbon emissions worldwide each year...
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (145): 13–36.
Published: 01 January 2023
..., as the Indian state since independence in 1947 has insisted on its juridical status as the paramount owner of the nation’s carbon resources. While the Indian constitution of 1950 reserved coal and petroleum to the prerogative of the central state, it was not until the government fully nationalized...
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Radical History Review (1999) 1999 (75): 131–147.
Published: 01 October 1999
... bombing victims, particularly women and children, and demanded removal of the charred lunch box containing carbonized rice and peas that belonged to a seventh-grade schoolgirl who disappeared in the bombing. For one who has confronted the still-smoldering hatred that many American veterans...
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Radical History Review (2013) 2013 (116): 130–145.
Published: 01 May 2013
..., and the federation believed that its plan might only exacer- bate the already uneven distribution of resources between these cities. As Juan del Granado, an active member of the FEJUVE, argued, “This new water company will be a carbon copy of Aguas del Illimani.”25 Evaluating the relative merits...
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Radical History Review (2011) 2011 (109): 101–107.
Published: 01 January 2011
... in U.S. housing markets through subprime predatory lending, which was then followed by foreclosures — ­to gild the McMansions of the rich. The environmental commons are no less threatened, while the proposed answers such as carbon trading and new environmental technologies merely propose that we...
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Radical History Review (2009) 2009 (103): 143–161.
Published: 01 January 2009
... society; the other pro- viding inspiration that a double movement of social activists can counter excessively intrusive market forces. All of this has generated a sense that where neoliberal capitalism has com- modified everything under the sun — including the air, through the new carbon...
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Radical History Review (2017) 2017 (127): 13–38.
Published: 01 January 2017
..., 1550–1850 . Tucson : University of Arizona Press . Mikesell Raymond F. 2011 . Foreign Investment in the Petroleum and Mineral Industries: Case Studies of Investor-Host Country Relations . New York : RFF Press . Mitchell Timothy . 2011 . Carbon Democracy: Political Power...
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Radical History Review (2017) 2017 (127): 149–172.
Published: 01 January 2017
... pouring oil over the earth and another of the planet in a gas mask. Two of the articles were reprints of pieces by BSSRS members that had first appeared in the Times, including a warning of how carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels could melt the ice caps. Cartoons were to become central...
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Radical History Review (2011) 2011 (109): 1–11.
Published: 01 January 2011
... about the privatization of apparently uncontainable resources necessary for human life sounds more like an indictment of our political-­economic reality than a voyage into the absurd. Carbon-­trading schemes that authorize cor- Radical History Review Issue 109 (Winter 2011)  d o i 10.1215...
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Radical History Review (1994) 1994 (58): 4–34.
Published: 01 January 1994
...,” and that ”fatigue is at bottom the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the organism.” By measuring the exhalation of carbon dioxide, he argued, ”normal speed” could be calculated and on this “scientific” base ”the normal time” for an operation could be determined. This was the heart of the Taylor...
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Radical History Review (1994) 1994 (58): 5–34.
Published: 01 January 1994
...,” and that ”fatigue is at bottom the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the organism.” By measuring the exhalation of carbon dioxide, he argued, ”normal speed” could be calculated and on this “scientific” base ”the normal time” for an operation could be determined. This was the heart of the Taylor...
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Radical History Review (2013) 2013 (116): 5–30.
Published: 01 May 2013
... that construction crews dismantled them when they repaved roads and neglected to reinstall them.92 Without ventilation shafts, carbon monoxide, methane, hydrogen sulfide, benzene, carbon dioxide, ammonia, and other hydrocarbons reached deadly levels in the sewers.93 Ahmedabad’s sewers had become the dangerous...
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Radical History Review (2019) 2019 (134): 116–141.
Published: 01 May 2019
... ; and Kassir, Beirut , 427 . Equivalent statistics are not readily available for Damascus, but would have been similarly low, if not lower. 26. Mitchell, “Carbon Democracy,” 409 . 27. The company’s failure to repair the public roads upon which it had laid down its tracks left important...
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (145): 125–138.
Published: 01 January 2023
... Politics in Post-Apartheid South Africa .” Geoforum 40 , no. 3 ( 2009 ): 373 – 82 . Sovacool Benjamin , Hook Andrew , Martiskainen Mari , Brock Andrea , and Turnheim Bruno . “ The Decarbonisation Divide: Contextualizing Landscapes of Low-Carbon Exploitation...
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Radical History Review (2010) 2010 (107): 195–208.
Published: 01 May 2010
...), the histories of their extraction are similar in terms of immigrant miners forging transnational communities around resource tapping, the use of hydraulic technol- ogy for exposing the seams of both ore and carbon, and the massive environmental costs associated with both, especially in both regions’ use...