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Two more radical precursors of Anthropocene science
Long before the Anthropocene Working Group reported on the new epoch, Yrjö Haila and Richard Levins argued that global ecohistory entered a new stage sometime after World War II
Facing the Anthropocene: September book launch events
Mark your calendars: Ian Angus speaks on 'Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System,' at public meetings in Vancouver, Toronto, and Ottawa
Video: Ian Angus on the Crisis of the Earth System
Dharna Noor of Real News Network interviews C&C editor Ian Angus about the proposal to declare a new geological epoch, and his new book, 'Facing the Anthropocene.'
Enbridge Mercenaries Attack Native American Protesters
Video: Democracy Now! reports from protests against pipeline that would carry about 500,000 barrels of crude per day from North Dakota’s Bakken oilfield
Book review: How did we get into this mess?
Social and environmental problems are aptly diagnosed in George Monbiot's new book and, more importantly, they are diagnosed with great flair and eloquence.
Expert panel: The Anthropocene epoch has definitely begun
Key conclusion of Anthropocene Working Group report to Geological Congress: the ‘Great Acceleration’ in the second half of the 20th century marked the end of the Holocene and the beginning of a new geological epoch.
Capitalism driving biodiversity loss to point of no return
Ashley Dawson: 'Today's mass extinction crisis is one of the clearest indications we have of the fundamental irrationality and destructiveness of the capitalist system.'
Marx and the Earth: Why we wrote an ‘anti-critique’
The German daily Junge Welt interviews John Bellamy Foster on capitalism's destruction of nature, ecological Marxism from Marx's time to the present, and the environmental crisis as a class issue.
Climate justice and the prospect of power
Climate justice activists have not yet found a path to transformational change. That can only emerge from the experiences of all working people here and worldwide, present and past.