Quanti anni sono passati dal vertice di Kyoto che partorì il famoso protocollo, secondo il quale gran parte degli Stati della Terra si impegnavano a ridurre le proprie emissioni di CO2 e degli altri gas serra, responsabili principali dell'aumento repentino della temperatura media del Pianeta?

Come possiamo continuare a delegare i nostri bisogni, la difesa della nostra salute e dell'ambiente biologico in cui viviamo, a persone che, per il ruolo sociale che rivestono, pensano prima di tutto ad accumulare denaro e proprietà, infischiandosene del bene collettivo?

Il 24 febbraio in un vertice bilaterale svoltosi a Villa Madama, a Roma, Silvio Berlusconi e Nicolas Sarkozy hanno firmato un Protocollo che getta le basi per una cooperazione in tutti i settori della filiera produttiva dell'energia atomica che accompagna il primo concreto atto verso il ritorno dell'Italia al nucleare.

Ma gli obiettivi futuri dello Stato italiano in campo energetico, del tutto in linea con la berlusconiana megalomania, sono molto più ambiziosi del suddetto protocollo d'intesa e prevedono entro il 2020 un contributo dell'energia nucleare sulla potenza totale elettrica italiana installata del 12%.

Ciò significa mettere in campo circa 12 mila megawatt e per realizzare questo obiettivo i nostri governanti non disdegnano di rivolgersi anche alla concorrenza dei francesi, ossia l'americana Westinghouse, costruttrice degli impianti Ap1000.

E ciò significa costruire almeno una decina di centrali, calcolando un cocktail tra gli Epr, aventi una potenza media di circa 1600 megawatt, e gli Ap1000 più piccoli, con potenza media di 1100 megawatt. La media di una centrale ogni due regioni.

Tutto ciò quando, nella peggiore delle ipotesi, noi sfruttiamo nei momenti di maggior consumo solo il 75% della potenza elettrica gia installata nel nostro territorio, con una riserva di potenza elettrica che non ha eguali nel mondo.

Peak Oil Theory has been around since the 1970s. Some think we have already reached 'peak oil', others think it will happen with the next twenty-five years. The theory argues that when we reach 'peak oil' the rate at which we extract oil from the earth (measured in millions of barrels per day) will reach a maximum and thereafter will start to drop.

As the rate at which we use oil is currently close to the rate at which we extract it, the point of peak oil will coincide or be closely followed by the world consuming more oil than it is producing. As oil reserves are very limited, within months there simply will not be enough oil available.

The economic boom in Ireland and the construction boom that has come alongside it has led to a growth in the importance of environmental campaigns. There has frequently been a large gap between the environmentalists involved in such campaigns and the left - including anarchists. Sean, one of the 'Carrickminders' and now a member of the WSM gives his view on what can be learnt from the recent struggles.

This article is not an attempt to be a pejorative statement from a class struggle point of view; there is a lot to be learnt on our part from these campaigns. Primarily the heritage based activists who took on the authorities at Carrickmines and the ecologists at the Glen of the Downs were doing something we failed at - taking on the issue of the environment. The campaign at Carrickmines, which I was directly involved in, felt resentment at the time due to the lack of participation and even interest from organised political left-wing groups

Residents of the Eris peninsula in North Mayo have for five years being fighting against a proposed high-pressure gas pipeline line. The pipeline will pass over land, approaching farms and houses as close as 20 metres in some cases. A consortium comprising Shell, Marathon and Statoil is building the pipeline

For about a month now locals with some help from outside have been blockading the proposed refinery site, the Shell depot and the site where the pipeline is supposed to come ashore. This July five of them jailed for refusing to allow Shell from moving onto their own land which has sparked off an escalating round of nationwide protests including the blockading of Shell and Statoil filling stations and depots.

Irish anarchists have been playing a role in these protests for some time including a few who have been working with the locals for months. A number of reports have already been carried on Anarkismo.net - here we bring these together with some more detailed explanations about what is going on.