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- 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-->>
- Making room for humans in scientific ecology20th century ecology moved from racism and eugenics to studies of undisturbed natural ecosystems. Today, ecological science must integrate social sciences.---READ-->>
- Angus interview in Peruvian indigenous newspaperLucha Indigena (Indigenous Struggle), edited by legendary Peruvian peasant leader Hugo Blanco, translates ‘Ecosocialism or Barbarism’ interview---READ-->>
- Making the case that green politics must be ecosocialistEssays by pioneering ecosocialist Joel Kovel argue that radical social change is the only way to prevent ecocatastrophe---READ-->>
- Pulverized: Capitalism, Africa and Covid-19In the Global North it is a ‘novel threat.’ In the South, it extends the common experience of brutal assaults accompanied by waves of illness and death---READ-->>
- Burned or buried, garbage spreads antibiotic resistanceNew research shows that breathing near a site where trash is burned or buried may be dangerous to your health.---READ-->>
- Ecosocialism or barbarism: African journal interviews C&C editor Ian Angus“A conscious and collective struggle to stop capitalism’s hell-bound train is our only hope for a better world.”---READ-->>
- Philippines: A weak but authoritarian state confronts Covid-19Instead of providing testing and basic care, the Duterte regime is attacking the poor. Cuba and Vietnam offer examples to emulate.---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, March 2020Six new books to read while maintaining social distance. Yellow Earth; Socialist Practice; Friedrich Engels; Chicken History; Traveling Plants; Coal and Empire---READ-->>
- Global warming is driving increased inequalityThe gap between the world’s richest and poorest countries is 25 percent larger than it would have been without climate change---READ-->>
- ‘Venture philanthropists’ seek climate change profits in MyanmarThe last remaining underexploited economy in southeast Asia offers new opportunities for capital accumulation with a green veneer---READ-->>
- By 2100, heat stress may affect over 1.2 billion people a yearStudy highlights combined effects of extreme heat and humidity, which are especially dangerous to human health---READ-->>
- Capitalist agriculture and Covid-19: A deadly combinationA socialist biologist explains the tight links between new viruses, industrial food production, and the profitability of multinational corporations.---READ-->>
- Confirmed: 2015 to 2019 were the five hottest years on recordMeteorologists agree that temperatures will continue to rise, and record years like 2019 are becoming the new baseline---READ-->>
- An ecosocialist case for CO2 removal technologyDavid Schwartzman argues that we can’t prevent catastrophic climate change without negative carbon emission technologies---READ-->>
- In northeastern BC, over 10% of oil and gas wells are leaking methaneThere is no monitoring program for abandoned wells, so they can leak for a long time before emissions are detected and repaired.---READ-->>
- Indigenous people may be the Amazon’s last hope“We are protecting our land and the life on it. We have to preserve this life for our children’s future.”---READ-->>
- A third or more of all species could be gone by 2070Even if Paris goals are met, climate change could wipe out 20% of species by 2070. If warming is greater, far more will die.---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, February 2020Robbery of nature; Choosing a future; Neoliberal lives; Indigenous resistance; Canadian oil vs the climate; Environmental justice in danger; Agrobiodiversity; Cars and capitalism---READ-->>