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- Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues. Part 7: Wildlife farms and wet marketsCommercial farming of wild animals as luxury food for the rich triggered a global pandemic---READ-->>
- Carbon offsets are undermining real climate actionOffsetting allows corporations to increase emissions, while getting credit for pseudo-reductions elsewhere---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, July 2024Six new books on neoliberal ideology, oceans in crisis, Michigan’s water wars, and the corrupt food industry---READ-->>
- Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues, Part 6: China’s Livestock RevolutionThe near-universal adoption of mass production in confined facilities makes pandemics all but inevitable---READ-->>
- Two views (both wrong) on Marx, degrowth, and productivismSaito versus Huber and Phillips: Opposing views both promote the myth of Marxist Prometheanism---READ-->>
- The biggest banks are financing climate chaosSince the Paris Agreement, megabanks have invested $6.9 trillion in fossil fuels---READ-->>
- For wildlife, the next pandemic is already hereDisease from megafarms has killed millions of wild birds and mammals---READ-->>
- Temperature rise ‘unprecedented in the instrumental record’1.3°C jump in 2023; emissions budget shrinking fast---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, June 2024Unequal epidemics, biotech in Africa, capitalist greed, climate history, fracking, and corporate crime---READ-->>
- COVID wiped out 10 years of life expectancy gainsGlobal life expectancy falls back to 2012 level; Americas and SE Asia hit hardest---READ-->>
- Mythmaking 101: What went wrong with capitalism?Did big government, monopoly power, and easy money end competitive capitalism’s golden age?---READ-->>
- Despite promising climate action, oil and gas giants double down on drillingAll announced energy transition policies are ‘insufficient’ or ‘grossly insufficient’---READ-->>
- Global people’s movements are leading the fight for our planetA conversation with Ashley Dawson, author of Environmentalism from Below---READ-->>
- Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues. Part 5: The Pandemic MachinesNew zoonotic diseases are inextricably connected to the industrialization of poultry, pigs and cattle---READ-->>
- Can capitalism solve the ecological crisis?Two new books argue that green capitalism will save us. Neither is convincing.---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, May 2024Attn. Reds & Greens: Eight recent books for people who want to change the world---READ-->>
- Marcuse’s revolutionary ecology: A breath of fresh airLaying the groundwork for the 99% to build a new ecosocialist world system---READ-->>
- What are you eating?The ubiquitous chemicals in our food are making us sick---READ-->>
- Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues, Part 4: Deforestation and SpilloverAgribusiness assaults on tropical forests are driving the emergence of new diseases and epidemics---READ-->>
- Greenhouse gas emissions spiked again in 2023Atmospheric CO2 is now more than 50% higher than pre-industrial levels---READ-->>