Utah Phillips: Who is responsible?

[Quotes and Insights #7] “The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.” Utah Phillips Please share your favorite (brief) ecosocialist quotation in the Comments section …...

First Nations: Investigate Tar Sands as Cancer Cause

“We want a moratorium for the life and death situation in Fort Chipewyan” Related posts… (auto-generated) James Bay Cree Nation enacts uranium ban Canada: Secret government memo warns tar sands damage may be irreversible Ottawa tar-sands...

Anti-capitalism, Climate Change, and Copenhagen

How should anti-capitalists intervene in coming IPCC meetings in Copenhagen? Cynthia Kaufman says she wrote this piece for Climate and Capitalism “to incite some serious conversation among anti-capitalists.” She suspects that C&C...

Indigenous Summit Shows the Way on Climate Change

“Our peoples have been wounded many times over but we have always had our environment and our land. That is no longer so sure. Climate Change needs to be reframed as a human rights issue.” Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new...

Indigenous Leaders Confront Barrick Gold

“Indigenous leaders from Papua New Guinea and Chile traveled to Canada this week to attend the April 29 shareholders’ meeting of Barrick Gold. Here, they will confront Barrick about human rights abuses and environmental degradation on their...

Indigenous Conference Sounds Climate Warning

“Most Indigenous Peoples today live oppressed existences as minority groups within states. Climate change for them layers another potentially crushing pressure on top of many others” Related posts… (auto-generated) Scientists issue...

Leon Trotsky and Ecology

A reply to a “green” critique of  the Russian revolutionary leader’s views on progress and nature Related posts… (auto-generated) Saito, Marx and the Anthropocene: A Critique ‘Capitalism in the Web of Life’ – A Critique...

Agriculture G8 = more hunger and poverty

Strengthening agriculture and expanding the WTO are contradictory objectives Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new IPCC report says about climate change and land From 'common goods' to the 'common good of humanity' Food...

Why Carbon Markets Can't Save the World

In Canada, the British Columbia New Democratic Party is promising to cancel carbon taxes and implement carbon trading, if it wins the provincial election. In the U.S., the Obama administarion is pushing hard for a similar system, as is the Rudd...

Ecosocialism: For a Society of Good Ancestors!

Ian Angus was a featured guest at the World at a Crossroads: Fighting for Socialism in the 21st Century conference , in Sydney Australia, April 10-12, 2009. The event, which drew 440 participants from more than 15 countries, was organized by...

EPA: Greenhouse Gases Threaten Health

After years of denial by the Bush administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency now says:”climate change is an enormous problem” Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new IPCC report says about climate change and land...

Review: Climate Wars

Gwynne Dyer: Climate Wars. Random House of Canada. Toronto, 2008. ISBN 9780307355836. 272 pages. C$34.95. Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new IPCC report says about climate change and land Andreas Malm: Revolutionary Strategy in a Warming...

Let Them Eat Junk

A new book explores the economics of our food system … Related posts… (auto-generated) What we sow is what we eat Philippines: ‘Let our people live! Climate justice now!’ We will not let this pipeline cross our land! Evo Morales to...

UK gov't advisors call for a new society

“The market was not undone by rogue individuals or the turning of a blind eye by incompetent regulators. It was undone by growth itself.” Related posts… (auto-generated) Three Manifestos: Climate Struggles and Ecosocialism On the origins...

Ecosocialist International Network: What's Next?

The Ecosocialist International Network meeting in Belem was a success – what do we do next? This article by Joel Kovel aims to initiate an international discussion on that question. Related posts… (auto-generated) David Orton: Why I am not an...

Hansen: Coal-fired power plants are factories of death

Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet. Coal is the dirtiest fuel. The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new IPCC report says about climate change...

Some criticisms of the Belem Ecosocialist Declaration

Daniel Tanuro, a certified agriculturalist and eco-socialist environmentalist, writes for “La gauche”, (the monthly of the LCR-SAP, Belgian section of the Fourth International), and Inprecor. This article was submitted to the discussion of the Belem...

The Age of Stupid

Derek Wall reviews a film that delivers ‘a powerful warning of the stupidity of ignoring climate change’ Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new IPCC report says about climate change and land Andreas Malm: Revolutionary Strategy in...

A guide to false climate change solutions

Hoodwinked in the Hothouse” – a short yet comprehensive survey of climate change non-solutions  Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new IPCC report says about climate change and land An unstoppable drive to Hothouse Earth? Andreas...