The Belem climate summit was yet another a 'safety valve' for capital, offering illusions and no real action
Belem 2025
Profitable Poisons
PFAS: The Devil’s Piss
Part Two of a series on the poisons that capitalism spreads worldwide examines deadly 'forever chemicals'
Social Murder in the Anthropocene
Profitable Poisons
Beginning a series of articles on the deadly chemicals that capitalism spreads worldwide
Deadly trash
Plastic pollution is worsened by climate change
Warmer climate increases plastics' toxicity, disproportionately poisoning large mammals
Capitalism kills
Chemical pollution drives prostate cancer, falling sperm counts
Pesticides, microplastics and PFAS are causing a precipitous decline in male reproductive health
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf. November 2025, Part 2
Continuing our survey of this month’s bumper crop of books for reds and greens
Tax Fizzle
In Canada, the Free Market Fairy failed to cut emissions. As expected.
Canada led the way in implementing carbon taxes. And in dumping them.
Extraction Extinction
Fossil fuel projects threaten health and rights of two billion people
Amnesty Report: Worldwide production of oil. gas and coal is undermining life, nature, and human rights
Movement building
Ecosocialism and degrowth in the Anthropocene
Only a democratic and planned socialist economy can put an end to structural racism and imperialist violence
COP30
Emission reductions: Promises, promises, promises
COP30 meets ten years after the Paris Agreement, and Earth is warming faster than ever
Lancet Report
Climate change costs millions of lives each year
The health and economic consequences of delayed climate action are escalating rapidly
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, November 2025, Part One
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
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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