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- ‘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-->>
- Ecosystem Destruction Fueled the Pandemic. Pollution Makes It Worse.A small increase in long-term exposure to polluted air leads to a large increase in Covid-19 death rates.---READ-->>
- New Challenges in South Africa’s Fight for Climate JusticePatrick Bond: The deaths of four frontline KwaZulu-Natal activists and another oil refinery explosion in Durban define the battlegrounds in 2021---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, December 2020Winter Solstice reading for reds and greens---READ-->>
- Ecosocialism: A Vital SynthesisPioneer ecosocialist Michael Löwy on the red-green alternative to the unsustainable status quo, and the movement for a Great Transition---READ-->>
- A strategic perspective for uniting ecosocialists in QuébecNewly formed ‘Révolution écosocialiste’ organization proposes a green, ecosocialist and democratic program for building a mass movement in the 21st century---READ-->>
- 1% own 43% of global wealth, while billions have no wealth at allNew research shows inequality remains stark, between rich and poor countries, and between households within countries---READ-->>
- 12 Major Impacts of Global Climate Change in 2020The World Meteorological Organization’s draft report on global climate change in 2020 describes continued deterioration on all fronts---READ-->>
- Facing the Anthropocene: An UpdateRecent scientific work strengthens and extends the arguments in Ian Angus’s pathbreaking book on fossil capitalism and the crisis of the Earth System---READ-->>
- Greenhouse gases set new record, despite Covid-19 lockdownTop meteorologist: only a complete transformation of our industrial, energy and transport systems can stop climate change---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, November 2020Seven new books and four book reviews. Engels at 200; Capitalist Crime; Eleanor Marx on England; Wheat’s Biography; Early Capitalist Farming; Renewable Energy; Sinking Middle Class---READ-->>
- Tyson managers laid bets on how many workers would get Covid-19Lawsuit says Tyson Foods ordered sick workers to stay on the line, while bosses ran a pool on how many would contract the virus---READ-->>
- The Return of Nature: Socialism and EcologyJohn Bellamy Foster’s brilliant recovery of a century of ecological and socialist thought will inform, enable, and inspire a new generation of reds and greens---READ-->>