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Ecosocialist critique
John Bellamy Foster on Jacobin and Ecomodernism
The editor of Monthly Review responds to ‘socialists’ who view the environmental crisis as a problem of technology, not a fundamental rift in society’s relationship with nature.
Book review
Science & Society reviews Facing the Anthropocene
‘Required reading for people trying to understand not only how the Anthropocene arrived on the scene, but why left-leaning people everywhere need to understand it’
Ecosocialist Debate
Memo to Jacobin: Ecomodernism is not ecosocialism
Ian Angus challenges a left-wing magazine that promotes geoengineering, nuclear power, carbon storage and other techno-fixes as solutions to climate change.
Ecosocialist Debate
Jacobin and ecomodernism: Two replies
Climate & Capitalism readers David Schwartzman and David Walters respond to criticism of Jacobin magazine’s special issue on climate change.
What If?
Cholera, Contingency, and Marx’s Drinking Water
Ecosocialist Notebook: A visit to two historic sites in London prompts thoughts about the role of individuals in history, and the possibility that Marxism might never have happened.
Ecosocialist Bookshelf
What are the essential books on ecosocialism?
HELP WANTED: What books would you include on basic and advanced reading lists for red-greens and green-reds?
Organizing in the Anthropocene
Angus interview: How can we save the planet?
We must understand how can we slow down changes that have already begun, which changes we can reverse, and how we can adapt those we can’t stop
An 1862 eco-critique
Les Misérables: Metabolic rift in the sewers of Paris
Victor Hugo’s masterpiece includes a powerful attack on the urban wastefulness that steals nutrients from the land. Like Marx and Engels, he based his critique on the work of the chemist Justus von Liebig.
Debating global change
Anthropocene scientists reply to critics
A comprehensive response to scientific objections to formally recognizing a new unit of geological time shows that the Anthropocene cannot be dismissed as a scientific fad
Facing the Anthropocene
CO2, oceans, and atmosphere: a correction
Thanks to positive feedback from a geochemist reader, I can correct my description of the global carbon dioxide cycle.
Ecosocialist Notebook
Hal Draper on the Marx-versus-Engels myth
The ideologues who try to drive a wedge between Marx and Engels must ignore the simple fact that Marx read and approved of Engels’ most important work.
Ecosocialist Notebook
I know I shouldn’t brag, but …
‘Facing the Anthropocene’ is now in its second printing, and Paul Burkett’s brilliant new article is is essential reading for everyone who is concerned about changing and saving the world.
Ecosocialist Notebook
Carl Schorlemmer as a historian of science
In addition to his major contributions to the theory and practice of organic chemistry, the Red Chemist authored the first history of the subject, a book written from the standpoint of historical materialism.
Carl Schorlemmer
More on the Red Chemist
Carl Shorlemmer’s contributions to chemistry were described in this biographical note, published 99 years ago. And there is a statue of him in Germany.
Ecosocialist Notebook
Introducing ‘A Redder Shade of Green’
Ian Angus’s new book of ‘essential debates at the intersections of socialism and science’ will be available soon. Here’s what some early readers say about it.
Famine and Disease
Countries on Trump’s ban list face world’s biggest humanitarian crisis since 1945
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.
Ecosocialist Bookshelf
Celebrating Darwin Day: What to read on (and after) February 12
“It is not too great an exaggeration to claim that On the Origin of Species was, along with Das Kapital, one of the two most significant works in the intellectual history of the nineteenth century.”
Happy birthday, C&C!
Ten years of Climate & Capitalism
Climate and Capitalism, ”an ecosocialist journal, reflecting the viewpoint of environmental Marxism,” was born on January 29, 2007. Ten years and 2500 articles later, C&C’s second decade has begun.
Solidarity appeal
Ecosocialist Terry Townsend Needs Our Help
Long-time ecosocialist activist and writer Terry Townsend is fighting his way back from a massive stroke. You can help ensure that he can participate in political activity again.