Three highly recommended books in the Democratic Marxism series: Marxisms in the 21st Century, Capitalism’s Crises, and The Climate Crisis.
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Five Revolutions: How bacteria created the biosphere and caused the first climate crisis
Metabolic Rifts Today. Beginning a new series by Ian Angus, on how contemporary science illuminates and extends metabolic rift theory in the 21st century.
Where’s the ‘eco’ in ecomodernism?
Eco-modernists promise that technology can solve all environmental problems and provide abundance for all. There is no sustainable way to do that.
Project Life: Cuba’s action plan prepares for climate change
As an island nation, Cuba is particularly vulnerable to climate change. Project Life (Tarea Vida), now being implemented across the country, aims to increase the country's resilience and minimize future damage
Why we are marching for science
Statement on the second annual March for Science on Saturday, April 14, 2018. "We need to transform the role of science in our world."
Sustainable Food Systems: An interview with Robert Biel
Conventional farming destroys the complex soil ecosystem and ultimately the soil itself, so the risk of not changing it is too great. (Free book available for download)
Shell knew about climate threat decades ago
Secret documents reveal that the giant oil company's scientists warned executives about the global impact of fossil fuels as early as 1981
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.
Can information technology save global fisheries?
Masses of new data reveal where fish are being captured and by whom, and what determines fishing schedules. Will this information lead to sustainable fishing, so long as profit rules?
Ecosocialism and consumerism
Commodity accumulation leads people to identify with the means of destruction. We must aim to disintegrate links in the chain of capital reproduction.