The health and economic consequences of delayed climate action are escalating rapidly
Lancet Report
important reading
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, November 2025
Part One of this month’s bumper crop of books for reds and greens
Global heating
Faster sea level rise threatens China’s coastal megacities
Thermal expansion and melting glaciers endanger some of the world's largest urban centers
Phytoplankton
Climate change is ungreening the oceans
Chlorophyll decline shows a vital life-support system is weakening, threatening food chains and the climate
Agribusiness kills
Bolivia Burning: Inside a Latin American Ecocide
Documentary film exposes the role of colonisers and agribusiness in causing massive forest fires
Read and Resist!
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, October 2025
Plastics, forever chemicals and more: four books examine the poisoning of the biosphere
Global burning
Amazon fires cause record-breaking CO2 emissions
700% increase means most Amazon greenhouse gas in 2024 came from fires, not deforestation
An Epochal Error?
Has the Anthropocene Been Cancelled?
Ian Angus anaylses the controversial decision not to recognize a radical change in the Earth System
Túpac Amaru Declaration
‘Carbon markets dispossess our territories and criminalize our ways’
Indigenous meeting in Peru condemns 'carbon offset' schemes that steal forests
Global heating
Climate change adds 40 days to worldwide wildfire season
Over half of annual burned area now occurs outside of natural burn season
1.5º out of reach
Fossil fuel production plans contradict climate promises
Official plans show continued collective failure to lower global emissions
heat kills
Wildfire smoke impact far greater than estimates: thousands killed
Study shows US death toll could reach 70,000 a year by 2050
Extreme Weather
Global water cycle: increasingly erratic and extreme
Swinging between deluge and drought, two-thirds of river networks have too much or too little water
Social Murder
Who is responsible for heat that kills?
New study identifies corporate culprits in deaths from rise in extreme heat waves
Breaching Planetary Boundaries
60% of Earth’s land area is now out of the safe operating zone
Structural changes have pushed a majority of land ecosystems into precarious conditions
Stop Greenwash
Protecting communities from carbon markets
Carbon markets and offsets have failed to actually reduce emissions after decades of trying
Reading matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, September 2025
Seven new books for reds and greens: slavery, antiscience, extraction, disruption, oil power, language, & planning
Worldwide, 2.1 billion people still lack safe drinking water
Universal access to safe water and sanitation is increasingly out of reach
Red-Green Library
Ecosocialist Bookshelf August 2025
Six important books on slavery, capitalist diseases, climate action, scientists resisting, economic planning, and technofossils.
Big tech & fossil fuels
Microsoft versus the planet
Ex-employees highlight how Microsoft’s work for the fossil fuel industry is exacerbating the climate crisis.