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- 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-->>
- Deadly combinations of heat and humidity increasing worldwide‘Previous studies projected that this would happen several decades from now, but this shows it’s happening right now’---READ-->>
- Pandemic: ‘This is a time for bold programs from the left’Covid-19 exposes capitalism’s gross inability to meet human needs. We must demand immediate measures to help people survive and recover.---READ-->>
- 3.5 billion people may face ‘unlivable’ heat in 50 yearsEvery degree of global warming will push a billion people out of the human survival zone---READ-->>
- Capitalist Pigs: Pigs, pork, and power in AmericaHow pigs became commodities and key elements of the interlocked social, economic and political institutions of US capitalism.---READ-->>
- First meeting of Global Ecosocialist Network issues Covid-19 statementActivists from four continents plan activity, elect steering committee, and call for solidarity with the workers who are risking their lives for us all---READ-->>
- Highest level of plastics found on seafloorOcean currents create ‘microplastic hotspots’ with up to 1.9 million pieces per square metre---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, April 2020Six important new books: The Return of Nature … Deaths of Despair … Rebel Cinderella … August Bebel … The Green New Deal and Beyond … The Triumph of Doubt---READ-->>
- Covid-19 disrupts food systems; global hunger crisis loomsGlobal food price increases could be worse than in the 2008 crisis, causing major shortages and increased malnutrition in the global south.---READ-->>
- Five proposals for a better world after the pandemic170 Dutch academics sign manifesto for sustainable, equal and diverse societies based on international solidarity---READ-->>
- Rising heat may crash entire ecosystemsNew studies show global warming is raising the risk of sudden, near total collapse of the wild populations that sustain human society.---READ-->>
- The dangerous folly of eco-primitivism: A reply to John Zerzan and Derrick JensenOnce icons of radical environmentalism, the views they now promote lead to a self-defeating mix of scapegoating, isolation and nihilist adventurism.---READ-->>
- Covid-19: Will Big Oil emerge more powerful than ever?Oil companies face severe problems now, but in the long run the industry giants may be bigger and even more dangerous to life on Earth.---READ-->>