Two views of food and farming. The origin of climate science denial. The high cost of living well. And a socialist who mostly disagrees with ecosocialism
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Labor unions and green transitions in the USA
New report investigates how US unions are addressing climate change — and why and how their positions vary.
UN REPORT
Overwhelming evidence shows global biodiversity in crisis
One million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction, many within decades, more than ever before in human history.
Reading Matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, April 2019
Five new books. Marine disease rises; Energy, food, nature, and the future; Civilizations and planet; Political economy of carbon; Understanding microbiome science
Book review
Biofuels: A pseudo-green scam that only enriches agribusiness
Ethanol and biodiesel boost corporate profits while doing nothing to solve the world’s growing social and environmental crises
Book Review
New contributions to the theory and practice of Marxist Ecosocialism
Michael Löwy reviews two important books for ecosocialists: ‘Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism’ by Kohei Saito, and ‘Red-Green Revolution’ by Victor Wallis.
Global links
3-5°C rise now ‘locked-in’ for the Arctic
UN report says emission cuts will not stop Arctic devastation or worldwide sea level rise
Healthy people, healthy planet
Defining a safe operating space for food systems in the Anthropocene
A food system revolution is urgently needed, to provide healthy diets for all while preventing irreversible damage to the Earth System.
New books for reds and greens
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, March 2019
Where climate change may lead, the global water crisis, Europe’s Little Ice Age, the human costs of Haiti’s unending catastrophes, against constructing nature
Book Review
Good intentions won’t bring climate justice
Mary Robinson wants change, but her commitment to global elites prevents her from confronting the system that causes and maintains global injustice.
Reading matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, February 2019
Six new books expose environmentalism’s false friends, analyse the idea of ‘environment’, explain renewable energy, trace the history of oceans, expose Monsanto’s Round-Up, and examine UK science denial
Movement building
An outline of ‘Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia’
How can socialism be rejuvenated to ensure social parity, democratic processes, and environmental sustainability for humanity?
Inequality rising
An open letter to Steven Pinker (and Bill Gates, for that matter) about global poverty
Defenders of capitalism claim global poverty is declining. Their arguments are intellectually dishonest and unsupported by facts.
Book Review
Indigenous sovereignty and socialism in Canada
A Marxist perspective on the mass Indigenous movement that is in the vanguard of the fight for climate justice in Canada
Book Review
What’s the alternative to factory farms?
‘Farming, Food and Nature’ offers a powerful critique of industrial livestock production, but fails to challenge the profit-system that drives it.
Reading matters
Ecososocialist Bookshelf, January 2019
Start the new year with these new books for reds and greens. End of the Megafauna. Brave New Arctic. The Big Heat. The End of Ice. Socialist Register 2019.
It's happening now
Scientists: Climate change causing heatwaves, droughts and floods
New report shows that recent extreme weather could not have happened without warming caused by human-induced climate change.
Book review
‘Dust Bowls of Empire’ exposes capital’s global assault on the land
The 1930s Dust Bowl presaged today’s global ecological crises. Hannah Holleman’s brilliant new book shows how and why capital destroys the soil that all life depends on.
Ecosocialism
The top 15 C&C articles in 2018 … and the all-time top 5
The 137 articles we published in Climate & Capitalism this year were read by more people than ever before. These were the most popular …
Reading matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, December 2018
Five important new books for reds and greens. Dust Bowls of Empire. Oil, Power and War. The Big Muddy. Never Home Alone. The Neoliberal Diet.