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- Can ‘ethical investing’ save the world?Superbanker Mark Carney quotes Oscar Wilde on value and price, but ignores his socialist conclusions---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, March 2021Six new books that are worth reading … and one that isn’t---READ-->>
- The financialization of environment protectionPollution markets and green finance are forms of profit accumulation, not practical tools for sustainable development.---READ-->>
- Intensive Fishing and the Birth of Capitalism, Part 2While treasure fleets carried silver to Spain, far more ships were carrying men, fish and whale oil across the North Atlantic.---READ-->>
- GMO Soy, Popular Resistance, and Corporate PowerWhy does GMO soy dominate Argentine agriculture? ‘Seeds of Power’ exposes the forces that have overwhelmed voices of resistance.---READ-->>
- The Ministry for the Future: A passionate call to save the earthKim Stanley Robinson’s new novel delivers a powerful vision of Earth in crisis and Earth transformed, but fails as a program for change---READ-->>
- Action Needed Now to Solve Triple EmergencyUrgent appeal to end the ‘senseless and suicidal’ war on nature by transforming social and economic systems---READ-->>
- Global Ice Melt: Much Faster Than PredictedGlaciers are disappearing up to twice as fast as previous studies estimated, with disastrous effects on many communities---READ-->>
- Lithium, Batteries and Climate ChangeThe transition to green energy does not have to be powered by destructive and poisonous mineral extraction.---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, February 2021Pandemic Century; Outlaw Ocean; America’s Dirty Secret; Deep Carbon; Clean Energy; Another End of the World---READ-->>
- Intensive Fishing and the Birth of Capitalism, Part 1Beginning a series on the role of fishing in the birth and spread of capitalism, and the role of capitalism in today’s mass extinction of ocean life.---READ-->>
- Are UN climate talks leading to a global dictatorship?Climate Leviathan warns that a worldwide imperial state is on the agenda, but provides no credible arguments or evidence.---READ-->>
- ‘The health of the people should be the supreme law’An ancient principle of justice points to solutions for today’s four-fold mega-crisis---READ-->>
- Crisis in the Amazon: A Planetary ChallengeCan the world’s most important rain forest be saved?---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, Jan. 2021Capitalism and Community; Engels and Nature; After Covid-19; The Marx Revival; For Degrowth; Super Polluters; How to Blow Up a Pipeline.---READ-->>
- Bidenfreude:
Covid-19 in Post-Trump U.S.We’re glad Trump lost, but Biden’s win brings no joy. It’s time for real alternatives.---READ-->> - Upper Ocean Temperatures Set a New High Record in 2020Over 90% of the excess heat due to global warming is absorbed by the oceans---READ-->>
- Amber Waves: A Biography of WheatIt took thousands of years for wheat to evolve from a wild grass into a highly productive source of food. Can it help address global hunger in our time?---READ-->>
- Capitalism and CatastropheCovid and climate change aren’t aberrations: they are aspects of the system’s permanent global crisis.---READ-->>
- Record number of billion-dollar disasters struck U.S. in 2020An extraordinary year for extreme weather and climate events in the United States.---READ-->>