Ecosocialist Resources, 17
July 1, 2010
More essential current resources for left greens and green lefts on capitalism, climate change, and the ecosocialist alternative
Capitalism, the Absurd System A View from the United States Robert W. McChesney and John Bellamy Foster in Monthly Review
Capitalism’s main economic claim to being an indispensable system is that it promotes economic growth, the benefits of which ostensibly trickle down to the vast majority. Today, however, in the mature capitalist economies, economic growth has slowed to a crawl (though sufficient to threaten the environment).
Crisis of Capitalism – a visual explanation. David Harvey on You Tube
Radical sociologist David Harvey asks if it is time to look beyond capitalism towards a new social order that would allow us to live within a system that really could be responsible, just, and humane?
The making of an eco-catastrophe. Chris Williams in Socialist Worker (U.S.)
Almost everything you need to know about the warped priorities of capitalism is contained in the following contradiction: Unprecedented national resources were marshaled to fight a war for oil in the Persian Gulf, yet an oil spill on our doorstep in the Gulf of Mexico is left to gush for weeks.
We need a global movement to defend Mother Earth Bolivian ambassador Pablo Solon, interviewed by Derrick O’Keefe in Rabble.ca
We have to build a movement that is global, that is able to defend Mother Earth, that is able to defend the rights of immigrants and workers. Once we see that our rights are related to the rights of others then we begin to build that alternative.
British Columbia’s Fossil Fuel Superpower Ambitions. Roger Annis in Socialist Voice
The province of Alberta is well known as a climate-destroying behemoth. … Less well known are the ambitions of its neighbouring province, British Columbia. It shares similar fossil fuel reserves and ambitions as Alberta.
Corporate Vandals Assault Rivers, Oceans, Forests. Roger Annis in Socialist Voice
The lamentable state of the forest ranges, fish stocks and water quality in the province are a warning of the sharp threat to the entire biosphere by profit-hungry resource corporations that hangs over the entire province.
Disappearances: Reflections on the collapse of honey bees and the Left. Andony Melathopoulos on the Platypus Affiliated Society
The phenomenon of Colony Collapse Disorder does not reveal our alienation from nature but our alienation from social productive forces. The “easy cure” simply reproduces the latter form of alienation by channeling it into the former, satisfying immediate impulses and, in turn, deflecting attempts to reflect or clarify what CCD actually means.
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