“When you are a hereditary chief leader you have responsibilities to your clan and you have to consult. They didn’t do that. Everything was a big secret up till now. At the end of the day, they are crawling into bed with Enbridge."
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Book Review: The Birth of the Anthropocene
Ian Angus: “I can’t recall another book that positions the present global crisis in Earth’s deep history so well, in a form that can be readily understood by non-specialists. Every ecosocialist should read it.”
A vision of democratic ecosocialism
Hans Baer: "Democratic eco-socialism rejects a statist, growth-oriented, productivist ethic and recognizes that humans live on an ecologically fragile planet with limited resources that must be sustained and renewed as much as possible for future generations."
Science, Socialism and the Anthropocene
Ian Angus: "We must have a concrete materialist understanding of how our world works and is changing. Without that, our political views would be floating in mid-air, with no concrete foundation."
Confirmed: 2015 set all-time heat records
The annual State of the Climate report confirms that 2015 surpassed 2014 as the warmest year ever recorded. Greenhouse gases, surface temperatures and global sea levels all passed previous highs.
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, August 2016
Five new books for green lefts and left greens. Cuban science fiction ... the birth of the Anthropocene ... agribusiness and disease ... surviving catastrophe ... rising seas ... private plunder of public assets.
Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin
Janet Biehl’s engrossing biography shows that Bookchin, an unlikely social theorist and radical philosopher, produced an important body of work of lasting significance.
Colonialism, Racism and the Global Dust Bowl of the 1930s
An important new paper challenges prevalent conceptions of the Dust Bowl, in which colonial and racial-domination aspects of the crisis are invisible, and affirms the necessity of deeper conceptions of environmental (in)justice.
Millions face drought and famine in Southern Africa
Worst drought in 35 years causes crop failures, widespread malnutrition in 10 countries. More than 640,000 drought-related livestock deaths have been reported due to lack of pasture, lack of water and disease outbreaks.
How the Great Acceleration has changed the planet
An important history of the Anthropocene updates the classic 'Something New Under the Sun.' It describes how our world has been transformed since 1945, but avoids discussing why.