Commercial farming of wild animals as luxury food for the rich triggered a global pandemic
COVID Economics
Fake Accounting
Carbon offsets are undermining real climate action
Offsetting allows corporations to increase emissions, while getting credit for pseudo-reductions elsewhere
Reading for reds and greens
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, July 2024
Six new books on neoliberal ideology, oceans in crisis, Michigan's water wars, and the corrupt food industry
The Road to Covid
Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues, Part 6: China’s Livestock Revolution
The near-universal adoption of mass production in confined facilities makes pandemics all but inevitable
Debate
Two views (both wrong) on Marx, degrowth, and productivism
Saito versus Huber and Phillips: Opposing views both promote the myth of Marxist Prometheanism
Follow the Money
The biggest banks are financing climate chaos
Since the Paris Agreement, megabanks have invested $6.9 trillion in fossil fuels
Bird Flu
For wildlife, the next pandemic is already here
Disease from megafarms has killed millions of wild birds and mammals
Indicators Report
Temperature rise ‘unprecedented in the instrumental record’
1.3°C jump in 2023; emissions budget shrinking fast
READING FOR REDS & GREENS
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, June 2024
Unequal epidemics, biotech in Africa, capitalist greed, climate history, fracking, and corporate crime
WHO REPORT
COVID wiped out 10 years of life expectancy gains
Global life expectancy falls back to 2012 level; Americas and SE Asia hit hardest
Review
Mythmaking 101: What went wrong with capitalism?
Did big government, monopoly power, and easy money end competitive capitalism's golden age?
Big Oil Reality Check
Despite promising climate action, oil and gas giants double down on drilling
All announced energy transition policies are 'insufficient' or 'grossly insufficient'
For the Commons
Global people’s movements are leading the fight for our planet
A conversation with Ashley Dawson, author of Environmentalism from Below
Corporate Killers
Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues. Part 5: The Pandemic Machines
New zoonotic diseases are inextricably connected to the industrialization of poultry, pigs and cattle
Defending the Indefensible
Can capitalism solve the ecological crisis?
Two new books argue that green capitalism will save us. Neither is convincing.
Reading Matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, May 2024
Attn. Reds & Greens: Eight recent books for people who want to change the world
Book Review
Marcuse’s revolutionary ecology: A breath of fresh air
Laying the groundwork for the 99% to build a new ecosocialist world system
Book Review
What are you eating?
The ubiquitous chemicals in our food are making us sick
Deforestation Disease
Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues, Part 4: Deforestation and Spillover
Agribusiness assaults on tropical forests are driving the emergence of new diseases and epidemics
Global Heating
Greenhouse gas emissions spiked again in 2023
Atmospheric CO2 is now more than 50% higher than pre-industrial levels