“I wrote this poem after I read about people in Pakistan digging mass graves in advance of the forecast heatwave, so as to not be caught unprepared, as they were last year.” — Kamala Emanuel
Poem
Archive | May, 2016
Book Launch
Video: Ian Angus introduces ‘Facing the Anthropocene’
Author’s presentation at book launch meeting for ‘Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System,’ at the Socialism for the 21st Century Conference in Sydney, Australia, May 13, 2013.
Via Campesina
Food sovereignty and climate change
Industrial agriculture is grounded in the use of fossil fuel and high energy consumption. Campesino agriculture with an agro-ecological basis is the only force capable of achieving food sovereignty and responding to climate change.
Climate Injustice
Planetary Crisis: We are not all in this together
Climate change and extreme weather events are not devastating a random selection of human beings from all walks of life. There are no billionaires among the dead, no corporate executives living in shelters, no stockbrokers watching their children die of malnutrition.
Articles & Reports
Ecosocialist resources, May 2016
Recommended reading for green-lefts and left-greens
Capitalism in crisis
Global inequality is much worse than we’ve been told
New analysis of global inequality shows that the income gap between people in rich and poor countries is far wider than policymakers are willing to admit.
Earth System in Crisis
Explaining the Anthropocene:
An interview with Ian Angus
“We don’t know how long we have before climate change goes from dangerous to extremely dangerous, but we know that continuing with business as usual makes such a shift increasingly likely.”