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climate debt

Aerial photo provided by the International Red Cross and Red Crescent shows the scale of the damage caused by Cyclone Idai

Rich countries must pay for cyclone devastation in southern Africa

By Ian Angus on March 19, 2019 in Africa, Climate Change, Climate Justice, Extreme weather

Climate change, caused by industrialized rich countries, is responsible for the disaster now unfolding in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi

Reading from the left

New Books! Red-Green Revolution. Rural Class Struggle. Climate Anthropology. Will Big Business Destroy the Planet? A Climate Justice Comic. Plundering Africa. Global Inequality.

Ecosocialist Bookshelf, June 2018

By Ian Angus on June 4, 2018 in Africa, Books & Reports, Climate Justice, Corporate polluters, Ecosocialism, History, Inequality & Class

New Books! Red-Green Revolution. Rural Class Struggle. Climate Anthropology. Will Big Business Destroy the Planet? A Climate Justice Comic. Plundering Africa. Global Inequality.

New books for reds and greens

Ecosocialist Bookshelf, May 2018

By Ian Angus on May 7, 2018 in Africa, Books & Reports, Ecosocialism, Latin America, Marxist Ecology, Science, War, Imperialism

Environmentalism of the Rich, A Scientist’s Fight for a Nuclear Test Ban, Limits to Capitalist Nature, Cocoa, Extracting Profit from Africa, Indigenous Struggles in Peru

Sengwer people attacked

Funeral of Robert Kirotich. murdered by the Kenya Forest Service in January

Conservation as genocide: REDD versus Indigenous rights in Kenya

By Ian Angus on March 15, 2018 in Africa, Enviro Justice, Indigenous, War, Imperialism

Neo-colonial ‘developmentalist’ forces with a green sheen are evicting and murdering people in the guise of conservation and climate change mitigation

Imperialism

Africa: New evidence of ongoing corporate looting

By Ian Angus on February 5, 2018 in Africa, Climate Justice, Land grabbing, Movement Building

World Bank report shows massive depletion of Africa’s natural wealth by transnational corporations. Only mass action can block the extractivist plunder

Agadir Declaration

ATTAC: For food sovereignty, against ‘free trade’ agreements

By Ian Angus on January 26, 2018 in Africa, Climate Justice, Food and Farming, Manifestos, Meetings & Events

“The so called free trade agreements are new colonial agreements that serve the interests of multinationals, favouring the pillage of lands, indigenous peoples’ communal areas, their water resources, their fish and their food”

Famine and Disease

Countries on Trump’s ban list face world’s biggest humanitarian crisis since 1945

By Ian Angus on March 11, 2017 in Africa, Ecosoc Notebook, Hunger and Famine, Middle East, UN Meetings

Twenty million people face imminent death from starvation and famine. Many more will suffer and die from disease. These are the people that Trump is targeting.

Humanitarian crisis

Famine looms as millions go hungry in East Africa

By Ian Angus on February 5, 2017 in Africa, Food and Farming, water

Failed harvests, disease, deteriorating water and pasture conditions, and animal deaths mean 12 million need food aid now, and the situation is fast deteriorating

Fossil Capitalism

Ecocide in the Niger Delta

By Ian Angus on September 24, 2016 in Africa, Enviro Justice, Oil, Oil Industry

In Nigeria, oil extraction and production has devastating consequences for the people living in the Niger Delta, but those who flee are not protected by the Geneva Convention on Refugees.

Farming in crisis

Millions face drought and famine in Southern Africa

By Ian Angus on July 29, 2016 in Africa, Climate Justice, Food and Farming, water

Worst drought in 35 years causes crop failures, widespread malnutrition in 10 countries. More than 640,000 drought-related livestock deaths have been reported due to lack of pasture, lack of water and disease outbreaks.

Climate Justice

Ground zero of climate change

By Ian Angus on December 23, 2015 in Africa, Asia, Climate Change, Enviro Justice, Featured

The coastal and island nations of the Asia-Pacific have contributed the least to global climate change, but suffer the most from climate breakdown and disaster capitalism

COP21

Paris climate agreement: a terror attack on Africa

By Ian Angus on December 17, 2015 in Africa, Climate Justice, Featured, UN Meetings

Patrick Bond: Supporters of the climate deal reached at the Paris Conference of Polluters are endorsing a plan that will kill millions

Ecosocialist resources, April 2015

By Ian Angus on April 28, 2015 in Africa, Climate Change, Corporate polluters, Food and Farming, Inequality & Class, Movement Building, Oceans

Eleven new articles! Ecosocialist Resources, published monthly in Climate & Capitalism, links to articles, reports, talks and videos that are relevant to our mission.

Ecosocialist resources, 76

By Ian Angus on April 2, 2015 in Africa, Ecosoc resources, Food and Farming, Mining, Movement Building, Science

Why is the North Atlantic cooling? … Fool’s Gold in Greece … Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything … Climate movement across movements … Break the food chain to build our humanity … Ecological debt and environmental justice … The Anthropocene is just inhuman