Many greens blame consumer choices and lifestyles for the global crisis. This blames the victims, while ignoring the real environmental criminals.
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Greenhouse gas emissions hit record high
In 2013 carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increased at the fastest rate for nearly 30 years, reaching 142% of the pre-industrial era.
The global burden of industrial livestock
‘The Ecological Footprint’ shows that industrial meat production increases inequality, overuses land and water, and contributes massively to global warming. Tony Weis The Ecological Hoofprint: The global burden of industrial livestock (Zed Books, 2013) reviewed by Gabriel Levy The rapid...
The great ‘poverty reduction’ hoax
Global poverty is much worse than the UN's spin doctored story. The global poverty headcount has increased, and the triumphalist narrative is a lie.
Louisiana is drowning, quickly
One of the greatest environmental and economic disasters in U.S. history is rushing toward a catastrophic conclusion. Louisiana is sinking, fast.
Pacific climate warriors: ‘We are not drowning, we are fighting!’
Koreti Mavaega Tiumalu: "We don’t see ourselves as victims. We are warriors. We will stand up peacefully from the Pacific to the adversary, which is the fossil fuel industry.”
21st century socialism requires a new culture on the left
Marta Harnecker: We need a pluralist and tolerant culture that puts first what unites us and leaves as secondary what divides us; that promotes a unity based on solidarity, humanism, respect for differences, defense of nature, and rejection of profit and the market.
The climate movement must stand with Ferguson
"I can’t stress enough how important it is for me, as a black climate justice advocate, as well as for my people, to see the climate movement show solidarity right now with the people of Ferguson and with black communities around the country striving for justice."
Localism? I don’t buy it
Stan Cox argues that localist movements fail because they treat a symptom of capitalism, the crippling of local communities, as if it's the disease.
Responding to capitalist disaster, in 1914 and today
World War I began 100 years ago. Today's ecosocialist movement has much to learn from the revolutionaries who campaigned to stop that catastrophe.