The row over waiving patents on Covid vaccines reveals the inhuman logic of intellectual property
Capitalism Kills
Global Melting
Worldwide glacier retreat speeds up
Glacier thinning rates have doubled over the past two decades
Book Review
Can sabotage stop climate change?
Andreas Malm’s call for minority violence is eloquent and sincere, but self-defeating
Killing the Global Sea
Pollution Report: Oceans are ‘at the precipice of disaster’
The aquatic food web has been seriously compromised by chemical pollution and climate change
Greenhouse Gas
Climate Scientists: ‘Net Zero’ is a dangerous trap
The only way to keep humanity safe is by immediately and radically cutting emissions in a socially just way.
Reading Matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, April 2021
Seven new books to read on Earth Day
Climate Emergency
Indian monsoons becoming more chaotic
Study warns of grave consequences for agriculture and economy, affecting over one billion people
Nutrient Drought
The ocean is becoming more stable – and that’s not good news
A growing rift in the ocean's metabolism disrupts circulation and starves essential organisms
Greenhouse Gas
Carbon dioxide levels now at highest level in 3.6 million years
Despite pandemic shutdowns, atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane levels surged in 2020
The First Cod War
Intensive Fishing and the Birth of Capitalism, Part 3
How England’s government-licensed pirates stole the Newfoundland fishery from Europe’s largest feudal empire
Rising Waters
Tipping points confirmed for massive Antarctic glacier
A small rise in ocean temperature may trigger catastrophic collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Six More Books
Ecosocialist Bookshelf March 2021, Part Two
Marx on stealing wood, Human development in the Anthropocene, Solar energy, Nature dialogs, and two on food
Overfishing
Protect fish to produce more food and reduce greenhouse gas
New research confirms that reducing fishing is the best way to get more benefits from the oceans.
Book Review
Can ‘ethical investing’ save the world?
Superbanker Mark Carney quotes Oscar Wilde on value and price, but ignores his socialist conclusions
Reading matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, March 2021
Six new books that are worth reading ... and one that isn't
Green Investments?
The financialization of environment protection
Pollution markets and green finance are forms of profit accumulation, not practical tools for sustainable development.
Newfoundland = New Found Fish
Intensive Fishing and the Birth of Capitalism, Part 2
While treasure fleets carried silver to Spain, far more ships were carrying men, fish and whale oil across the North Atlantic.
Book Review
GMO Soy, Popular Resistance, and Corporate Power
Why does GMO soy dominate Argentine agriculture? 'Seeds of Power' exposes the forces that have overwhelmed voices of resistance.
Book Review
The Ministry for the Future: A passionate call to save the earth
Kim Stanley Robinson's new novel delivers a powerful vision of Earth in crisis and Earth transformed, but fails as a program for change
UN REPORT
Action Needed Now to Solve Triple Emergency
Urgent appeal to end the 'senseless and suicidal' war on nature by transforming social and economic systems