How will future geologists recognize the beginning of the Anthropocene in rock records? Quite possibly by an unprecedented accumulation of fossilized trash.
Geology
Archive | October, 2016
Research Report
The British Columbia Carbon Tax: A Failed Experiment
British Columbia’s carbon tax has been held up as a climate success, but an analysis of the province’s emissions under the tax tells another story.
The World in 2050
Announcing:
The nearly carbon-free climate justice conference
A three-week discussion of ‘The World in 2050: Imagining and Creating Just Climate Futures’ has begun on a computer screen near you.
Book Review
Victor Wallis reviews ‘Facing the Anthropocene’
‘Ian Angus’s distinctive contribution is to underscore, with his geologically grounded perspective, the need to combine immediate measures of relief with a long-term agenda of transformation.’
Interview
Hannah Holleman on environmental justice and ecological imperialism
“The pace and scale of ecological degradation we confront today is unfathomable without understanding the legacy and persistent realities of ecological imperialism.”
Forms of denial
Corporate climate risk is about profit, not fixing the problem
‘Like latter-day wizardry, corporate risk calculations suggest that markets and capital can, not only control the natural world, but somehow anticipate it’
We won't be long, but ...
What to read while C&C takes a break
Climate & Capitalism will resume its regular publishing schedule on or about October 24. In the meantime, have you read these top-rated articles from the summer of 2016?
Environmental Justice
If Nature Is Sacred, Capitalism Is Wicked
Under capitalism, everything is a business opportunity. Disasters are not viewed by business leaders as problems to be solved, they are seen as circumstances of which they must take advantage.