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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.
Capitalism kills
Climate change health impacts: ‘compounded and overwhelming’
Lancet climate change report shows worsening health risks from heat and heatwaves, infectious diseases, and food security
Essential reading
‘Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism’ wins the 2018 Deutscher Prize
Kohei Saito honored for his brilliant study of Marx’s views on the relationship between society and nature
Crisis confirmed
The climate report that Trump tried to bury
Summary of major U.S. government report that warns of major threats to human health and safety, quality of life, and economic growth
Book Review
Can the working class change the world?
A superb popular account of what’s wrong with capitalism and what working people must do to get rid of it. Highly recommended!
Red & Green Reads
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, November 2018
A bumper crop! Eight new books on biofuels, nutrition fraud, imperialism, post-capitalism, indigenous sovereignty, coral reefs, moral economists, and chicken
Biodiversity
Capitalism is killing the world’s wildlife, not ‘humanity’
By failing to name the system responsible, the new Living Planet report undermines its own call for a collective response to the biodiversity crisis.
Book Review
The Logic of Human Survival
Veteran socialist says ‘A Redder Shade of Green’ should be read by all who are concerned with climate change and the degradation of the environment.
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.