70% of all bacteria live deep in the earth, constituting a reserve of carbon and biodiversity that vastly outnumbers and outweighs all humans combined
Earth's metabolism
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Oceans rising
Greenland melting is faster than ever … and it is speeding up
“The melting and sea level rise we’ve observed already will be dwarfed as climate continues to warm”
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.
Environmental injustice
New maps of land destruction show why caravans flee Central America
Detailed maps show worldwide land degradation, including the deforestation that is now forcing migrants to leave Guatemala and Honduras
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
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.
Corruption and Militarization
The Tragedy of American Science
Corporations and the Pentagon have transformed science from a creative force for human advancement into its destructive and antihuman opposite.
Science 1; Trump 0
Reply to Trump: Global warming explained in three easy tweets
137 words and two graphs. A climate scientist demolishes the world’s leading climate science denier
1.5 degrees
IPCC report puts global warming crisis in Anthropocene framework
Implicitly challenging the weak 2016 Paris Agreement, scientists say climate change is part of the broader global emergency and any responses must reflect that.
Our polluted oceans
Plastic plague intensifies on remote southern islands
Plastic pollution is now reaching some of the most remote areas of Earth. Scientists find 100 times more plastic debris on isolated South Atlantic islands than 30 years ago.
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Reading matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, September 2018
New books for reds and greens. Three centuries of factories; Holland in the Little Ice Age; Thinking in deep time; Horizontal Gene Transfer; The physics of evolution
Review
Climate change in the Anthropocene: An unstoppable drive to Hothouse Earth?
Can the global climate be stabilized before runaway change creates conditions that are too hot for human civilization and deadly for most species?
We're back!
Packed NYC meeting celebrates relaunch of Science for the People
Reborn organization and magazine will combine writing on scientific issues, building a network of radical scientists, and acting for social justice
Crisis deepens
State of the Climate Report: It’s hot and getting hotter
It’s official: 2017 was the third-warmest year on record, and the hottest non-El Niño year. Greenhouse gases hit record highs and sea levels kept on rising
Time is running out
Scientists urge immediate action to prevent global biodiversity collapse
“Fifty years ago biologists expected to be the first to find a species, now they hope not to be the last.”
Profile
Barry Commoner’s Science for the People
In honor of the relaunch of Science for the People, Climate & Capitalism is proud to co-publish this profile of a great scientific fighter for radical social change.
NYC July 28
Science for the People relaunches with special issue on geoengineering
Radical science magazine returns with an important volume on climate engineering, a documentary on SftP’s history and rebirth, and a renewed commitment to activism.
Reading from the left
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, June 2018, Part 2
Five new books: Ecological Crisis and Capital … El Niño in World History … Plate Tectonics … Marxist Essays … Origins of Agriculture and the State
Capitalism fouls things up
What the Monsanto Papers tell us about corporate science
Internal documents released in a lawsuit by cancer victims show how the chemical giant actively subverts science to promote its products and profits.