Failed harvests, disease, deteriorating water and pasture conditions, and animal deaths mean 12 million need food aid now, and the situation is fast deteriorating
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Trump Against the Planet
John Bellamy Foster: This administration is not just a cabal of ignoramuses. Behind the right’s climate denial is the economic reality that seriously combating capitalism’s war on the planet requires the defeat of the system.
Ten years of Climate & Capitalism
Climate and Capitalism, ”an ecosocialist journal, reflecting the viewpoint of environmental Marxism,” was born on January 29, 2007. Ten years and 2500 articles later, C&C's second decade has begun.
Together, the labor and climate movements can trump Trump
There will inevitably be tensions, but the core interests of workers and the labor movement lie both in defeating Trump and in forestalling the devastating effects of climate change on themselves and their posterity.
Another attack on Anthropocene science
A new conservative campaign aims to discredit efforts to define the new and dangerous stage of planetary history, by driving a wedge between social scientists and the Anthropocene Working Group.
Ecosocialist Terry Townsend Needs Our Help
Long-time ecosocialist activist and writer Terry Townsend is fighting his way back from a massive stroke. You can help ensure that he can participate in political activity again.
Terry Townsend: A Marxist Analysis of Climate Change
From the archive: Why capitalism is destroying the earth, and why socialism is the only path to human survival in this century.
Eight men’s wealth equals half the world
The gap between rich and poor is far greater than previously reported, because the poorest half of the world has even less wealth than previous studies showed
How poor countries finance the rich
In one year, rich countries take $2 trillion more from poor countries than they return in aid and investment. The countries that brag most about their foreign aid are enabling mass theft.
Creating a society that meets human needs
How might economic needs be met in a post-capitalist society? Is it possible to eliminate markets and make production choices democratically?