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Dry Deniers
Australia: Worst drought ever, but don’t mention climate change!
“At the federal level there is a climate information vacuum of truth and at the state level there is no action.”
Reading matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, April 2018
Six new books for reds and greens … climate change and disease … capitalist power and the planet’s future … brain, body, and environment … oceanic art and science … essential fungi and life … the political economy of water.
Water crisis
UN report: Billions lack access to safe water and sanitation
Every year, 361,000 children under 5 years die due to diseases caused by poor sanitation and contaminated water
Humanitarian crisis
Famine looms as millions go hungry in East Africa
Failed harvests, disease, deteriorating water and pasture conditions, and animal deaths mean 12 million need food aid now, and the situation is fast deteriorating
Farming in crisis
Millions face drought and famine in Southern Africa
Worst drought in 35 years causes crop failures, widespread malnutrition in 10 countries. More than 640,000 drought-related livestock deaths have been reported due to lack of pasture, lack of water and disease outbreaks.
Recommended Reading
Ecosocialist resources, February 2016
Reading for reds and greens: Michael Moore on Flint water; Bill McKibben and Robert Fanney on climate and the Zika virus; Richard Fidler on Venezuela; Martin Empson on jobs, climate, justice
U.S. government underestimates flood risks by up to five feet
High-water marks in the midwest U.S. are inching higher as global warming makes megafloods more common
Visualizing the global water crisis
Massive transformation of the global water cycle is threatening billions of people around the world. This 3-minute film charts the scale of change.
Ecosocialist resources, 62
Why capitalism must grow; The cost of climate change; Banks invest $80 billion into coal; Major aquifers in trouble; Global wealth inequality gets much worse
In Ohio, don’t drink the water!
Nearly half a million people have been told that their tap water is unsafe to drink, poisoned by industrial farming, sewage, storm water runoff and industrial pollution.
Ecosocialist resources, 53
BP’s ongoing threat to the Great Lakes; What happened in Lac Megantic; To stop climate change, stop capitalism; Michael Lowy on ecosocialism
Antarctica’s accelerating ice collapse
The sea-level rise of 10 to 16 feet will come in decades, rather than centuries. It will submerge nearly every port city in the world.
Plastic Plague
Book Review: ‘Plastic Ocean’ is an important contribution to broad awareness of the ever-growing conflict between our systems of production and the circle of life.
Elk River: Poisoned for profit
The company that poisoned West Virginia’s drinking water decided that public health was less important than its bottom line, while politicians stood by.
Biggest dead zone ever coming to the Gulf of Mexico
Fertilizer run-off from the U.S. midwest is forecast to kill most fish in a dead zone the size of New Jersey.
The looming threat of water scarcity
If present trends continue, by 2025 1.8 billion people will face absolute water scarcity, and almost almost half of the world’s people will face water stress.
The biggest mass poisoning in history
77 million Bangladeshis are drinking arsenic-affected water. The arsenic is naturally occurring, but the failure to stop it, and the resulting health disaster, have deep social causes.
Thirst for power: How coal, nuclear and gas waste our water
Over half of all of the fresh, surface water withdrawn from the environment in the U.S. today is used by power companies. They take the profits, and society pays the price.
Canada undermines the human right to water at World Water Forum
At the 6th World Water Forum, Canada’s government successfully undermined the UN-recognized human right to water, and supported efforts by multinational water corporations to promote the privatization of water