Some writers imagine that machines can feed the world. They ignore the damage caused by industrial agriculture, and don’t value the work of people who feed most of humanity today.
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Seventh consecutive year of steep increases leads to the highest greenhouse gas concentration recorded in 61 years of observations
What will it take to win a Green New Deal?
Canadian NGOs have launched a "Pact for a Green New Deal." Will they build the movement that's needed to win real changes?
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, June 2019
Marxist environmental essays ... Science and the Anthropocene ... Is disaster avoidable? ... Capitalism at sea ... Beef and class struggle ... Climate and the biggest volcano
Environment, Labor, and Capitalism at Sea
A compelling first-hand study shows that fishing is a deadly occupation because capitalism forces workers to take terrible risks in order to survive.
Superbugs in the Anthropocene: A Profit-Driven Plague
The promise of a world without disease has been replaced by warnings of evermore virulent pathogens, created by the drugs that were supposed to save us.
Amazonian community’s lands destroyed for ‘sustainable’ palm oil
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Major step towards formalizing the Anthropocene
BULLETIN: Overwhelming majority of working group votes: A new epoch in Earth history began in the mid-20th century
Fine dust and fossil capital in Korea
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Fossil capitalism, ecosocialism, and the Anthropocene crisis
Ian Angus speaking in Ottawa following a tour of the National Gallery of Canada exhibit on the Anthropocene