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- Dead Zones: Industrial Agriculture versus Ocean LifeWorldwide, there are now over a thousand coastal areas where fish can’t breathe. The nitrogen that makes crops grow is also destroying offshore ecosystems.---READ-->>
- People’s Power: Reclaiming the Energy CommonsNot just renewable energy, but global system change! A call to arms for a transformative approach to energy and a new society.---READ-->>
- Covid-19: Asian contrasts and lessonsSome Asian countries have effectively contained the disease, while others have dramatically failed. What’s behind the differences?---READ-->>
- ‘Worst case’ emissions scenario is best match for realityThe IPCC’s most extreme projection of the impact of global climate policies is tracking within one percent of actual results.---READ-->>
- Pesticides speed the spread of deadly parasitesEven low concentrations of pesticides can increase transmission and weaken efforts to control the second most common parasitic disease---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf: Mid-July, 2020Six new books … Greta Thunberg’s story; Fighting corporate food systems; Revolutionaries on climate; Food and revolution; A case for meat; Our carbon world---READ-->>
- Is lab-grown meat the future of food?Documentary on ‘clean meat’ fails to question the technology’s rationale and blindly accepts dubious claims made by its promoters---READ-->>
- The ‘Green Revolution in Africa’ is failing on its own termsThe Gates Foundation’s billion dollar project is a vicious circle that drives small-scale food producers further and further into poverty---READ-->>
- Deep sea mining threatens more than the seafloorThe damage caused by proposed deep sea mining projects can extend hundreds to thousands of feet up---READ-->>
- Frightening numbers: Biosphere heating acceleratesThe Earth is warming at an astounding speed, equivalent to absorbing 907 times the USA’s annual energy use, far faster than biological species can adapt---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, Pandemic Edition (July 2020)A special edition of Ecosocialist Bookshelf: six books we recommend for understanding the deadliest global health crisis of our time---READ-->>
- Heatwaves are longer and more frequent, worldwideNew study provides ‘unequivocal indicators’ that global warming is not just underway but speeding up. Scientists insist ‘the time for inaction is over.’---READ-->>
- Not just meat: All farm and food workers are in perilThe profit-driven food system endangers the lives of millions of low-paid workers. It’s time to adopt more humane and robust methods of feeding humanity.---READ-->>
- Tonnes of ‘recycled’ European plastic pollute the oceansResearchers find that much supposedly recycled plastic from Europe is in fact exported to Southeast Asia and dumped---READ-->>
- A Ten-Point Agenda for the Global South After COVID-19Neoliberalism has driven the the world system into a cul-de-sac. The Global South must lead in building a new international economic order---READ-->>
- Cars and drivers in the age of inequalityA magazine for fans of very expensive cars unexpectedly exposes the gross economic inequality that characterizes the U.S. today---READ-->>
- Banning wild animal sales won’t prevent another pandemic‘If wildlife-oriented solutions distract from the weaknesses that COVID-19 has exposed in global health security, the next pandemic will levy a higher toll.’---READ-->>
- Agribusiness drives severe decline of essential insectsFour million tonnes of poison a year, most produced by four agribusiness giants, are killing essential insects everywhere. One-third of species face extinction.---READ-->>
- Despite pandemic, CO2 hits new recordGreenhouse gas in atmosphere continues accelerating, reaching the highest concentration ever recorded in May 2020.---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, June 2020Books we’re reading this month … The Life of V. Gordon Childe; The Tragedy of US Science; Four Billion Years of Life; Marx and Climate Crisis; Tell the Bosses We’re Coming; Essays on Red Rosa---READ-->>