Corporations and the Pentagon have transformed science from a creative force for human advancement into its destructive and antihuman opposite.
Corruption and Militarization
Archive | October, 2018
World Health Organization
Over 90% of the world’s children breathe toxic air every day
UN report says polluted air is poisoning millions of children. In 2016 alone, 600,000 children under 15 died from infections caused by polluted air.
Book Review
Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future
In ‘Climate Justice,’ grassroots activists from around the world, mostly women, tell their stories. A powerful and compassionate book.
Climate change vs biodiversity
Greenhouse gases and mass extinctions: Speed kills
In past warming events, atmospheric CO2 rose too fast for many species to adapt. Today it is rising 10 times faster than at any time in 66 million years.
Reading matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, October 2018, Part 2
Can the Working Class Change the World? Plagues and the Paradox of Progress. Fishing and Civilization. History of Fossil Fuel. Monopoly Seeds and the Fight to Save Food
Book Review
A Marxist History of Capitalism
An important work of Marxist history and theory restores class struggle to central place in explaining how capitalism arose and grew, and can eventually be overcome
Science 1; Trump 0
Reply to Trump: Global warming explained in three easy tweets
137 words and two graphs. A climate scientist demolishes the world’s leading climate science denier
1.5 degrees
IPCC report puts global warming crisis in Anthropocene framework
Implicitly challenging the weak 2016 Paris Agreement, scientists say climate change is part of the broader global emergency and any responses must reflect that.
Our polluted oceans
Plastic plague intensifies on remote southern islands
Plastic pollution is now reaching some of the most remote areas of Earth. Scientists find 100 times more plastic debris on isolated South Atlantic islands than 30 years ago.
Global Warming Report
IPCC says 1.5° will be bad and 2.0° will be far worse, calls for radical change NOW
Major report finds that global climate outlook is far worse than previously thought; calls for immediate and sweeping change to prevent catastrophe
Wrong Roads
Half-Earth: A biodiversity ‘solution’ that solves nothing
Proposals to remove all humans from half of the Earth ignore the root causes of the biodiversity crisis and undermine progressive struggles for social justice.
Reading matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, October 2018
New books: Essays for Richard Levins … The Earth is not for Sale … Defending Howard Zinn … The Rise of Capitalism … Degrowth … Climate Justice … Below Freezing