Marc Brodine

Marc Brodine is a former AFSCME member and local officer, he is currently an artist and guitar player. Marc writes on environmental issues and is the author of an extended essay on Marxist philosophy and the environment, titled Dialectics of Climate Change

LATEST ARTICLES BY Marc Brodine

U.S.

Gerda Lerner, pioneering scholar of women’s, African-American history
January 8, 2013 By Marc Brodine
Gerda Lerner, whose life went from Jewish radical activist in Austria to refugee from Nazism to prominent U.S. historian, passed away in Madison, Wisc., at the age of 92, this month.
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Environment

Environment in 2013: You can’t fool Mother Nature
January 7, 2013 By Marc Brodine
There may not yet be the political will in Congress to pass significant climate change legislation. But efforts to address this issue will continue to get strong support from Mother Nature.
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Environment

Forget Mayan calendar: Climate change is real doomsday threat
December 21, 2012 By Marc Brodine
But you don't have to look very far to find credible doomsday predictions based on the ever more detailed and dire scientific studies and reports.
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Environment

Will anything really happen at Doha climate change summit?
November 29, 2012 By Marc Brodine
Each conference hears reports about how much the world is depending on these gatherings to develop cooperative international approaches to mitigate and adjust to climate change.
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Environment

You can’t filibuster Mother Nature
November 27, 2012 By Marc Brodine
The ultra-right, congressional Republicans, Republicans in state legislatures, and the Koch brothers and their cohort and paid flacks have a problem. It is called reality.
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Opinion

Ten certainties for the next four years
November 8, 2012 By Marc Brodine
No one has a crystal ball to predict the exact course of the next four years. But it is useful to start with what we actually know.
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Opinion

The real issue: Romney’s profits from job-killing
July 16, 2012 By Marc Brodine
Romney is happy to profit from vulture capitalism, but he certainly doesn't want any voter to think he himself was a vulture.
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Opinion

Rio environmental summit disappoints — again
June 26, 2012 By Marc Brodine
The weak-at-best conference statement merely reaffirmed the goals from 20 years ago for a sustainable world, without making any binding agreements which could make that actually happen.
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