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Archive | Climate Change
Climate in crisis
As climate crisis grows, temperatures set global records
Grim reading from US government scientists. For five years, every July has set a worldwide temperature record — and this year was the worst of all
IN-DEPTH Q&A
What the new IPCC report says about climate change and land
Summary of new UN report that documents the impact of climate change on land and agriculture — and how land misuse accelerates climate change.
The crisis is now
How fast is the climate changing?
Dangerous climate change is not just something that might happen in the future. It is visibly happening now and it is rapidly getting worse.
New book launched
‘An important contribution to the fight to stop capitalist destruction’
Book review and full video of meeting to launch ‘System Change Not Climate Change: A Revolutionary Response to Environmental Crisis.’
Creating an Ecological Society
Fred Magdoff on Climate Change, Capitalism, and Socialism
Video: What would a just and ecologically sustainable society look like? If the current economic system can’t respond, what strategies will advance our struggle?
Book Review
Confronting the rising tide of marine disease
Warming the climate and polluting the sea is leading to explosive outbreaks of new infectious diseases
Book Review
Gee Whiz! Communism is sure gonna be keen!
‘Fully Automated Luxury Communism’ trivializes the global environmental crisis with badly-researched techno-hype and political plans that don’t come close to addressing the world’s problems.
Marxist ecology
The ecosocialist views of Karl Marx – An interview with Kohei Saito
The winner of the 2018 Deutscher Prize discusses Karl Marx’s radical understanding of capitalism’s deadly disruption of the universal metabolism of nature.
Global heat
Atmospheric carbon dioxide level hits all-time high
Seventh consecutive year of steep increases leads to the highest greenhouse gas concentration recorded in 61 years of observations
Six new books
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, June 2019
Marxist environmental essays … Science and the Anthropocene … Is disaster avoidable? … Capitalism at sea … Beef and class struggle … Climate and the biggest volcano
Review
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.
Unprecedented actions
Extinction Rebellion: A new stage for the climate change movement
It would be criminal if political criticisms keep the organized left from supporting and joining the Extinction Rebellion campaign. Three articles from the British left …
A Red-Green Manifesto for the 21st Century
No shortcuts: The climate revolution must be ecosocialist
Only a mass socialist, feminist, internationalist, pro-peasant, anti-racist, indigenous, and anti-colonial movement can save humanity
Permafrost melting?
Yukon temperatures are the highest in 13,600 years
Warming of over 2 degrees Celsius is above the global average and well above the average of the rest of the Arctic region
The transition we need, 2
How would a revolutionary government protect the environment?
There is an enormous unused human potential waiting to be drawn into the job of saving the ecosphere. How can it be mobilized?
The transition we need, 1
Carbon pricing and new technology won’t stop climate change
We need truly radical measures, and ultimately a different kind of government with the political will to lead, coordinate and consolidate the transition
climate debt
Rich countries must pay for cyclone devastation in southern Africa
Climate change, caused by industrialized rich countries, is responsible for the disaster now unfolding in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi
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
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