Resistance to rapid industrialization and encroachment by poisonous industries has led to pitched battles between residents and police in many cities.
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Climate crisis: The rich don’t want solutions
The latest IPCC report inadvertently shows that corporations and their governments are determined to avoid protecting the poor from climate change.
A Marxist view of ecology and human history
Simon Butler says Martin Empson's 'Land and Labour' is a very readable Marxist history of humanity's relationship with the rest of nature and an important contribution to the movement for ecosocialism
World peasant movement: Solidarity with Venezuela!
Via Campesina condemns right wing efforts to destabilize Venezuela and reverse the immense achievements of the Bolivarian Revolution.
What did that ‘NASA-funded collapse study’ really say?
A critical evaluation of a widely reported study that supposedly proves that only social equality and a rapid shift to renewables can prevent the collapse of western civilization.
IPCC: The world is not ready for climate change
Now on the C&C website: IPCC report on impacts and risks of climate change. "The world is ill-prepared for risks from a changing climate."
Air pollution kills 7 million a year
World Health Organization names the biggest environmental health threat: over 12% of all deaths are caused by the air we breathe
Climate change drove extreme weather in 2013
World Meteorological Organization confirms: there is no standstill in global warming. Thirteen of the fourteen warmest years on record have all occurred in the 21st century, and each of the last three decades has been warmer than the previous one.
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.
Wagering on Earth’s future
Ian Angus reviews 'The Bet,' an in-depth account of the overhyped and pointless wager between populationist Paul Ehrlich and libertarian Julian Simon.