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- 2020 is hot, and it’s going to get much hotterEmissions are rising. Each decade is warmer than the last. The oceans are heating up. Australia is burning. And that’s just January.---READ-->>
- Reconsidering Nuclear PowerSocialists debate whether nuclear can generate the power needed to improve the economic well-being of the vast majority of people, without carbon emissions.---READ-->>
- ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ is a hoaxCSR is a public replations framework that lets corporations greenwash their public images, pretending to change so that everything can remain the same---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, January 2020Mining in late capitalism; Green New Deal; The Pentagon and climate change; Big Oil vs democracy; Climate justice; Nature in Canada; History of human labor---READ-->>
- Greta Thunberg: ‘Clever statistics and creative PR’ cover inaction on climate crisisAt UN conference, Greta condemns government and corporate refusal to take effective action to reduce emissions.---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf: Best of 2019This was a bumper year for books of interest to ecosocialists. Here are ten that we found particularly interesting or valuable, or both.---READ-->>
- A system that steals from our future“We have been mortgaging the health of future generations to realize economic and development gains in the present”---READ-->>
- Capitalism versus Life on EarthEnvironmental destruction isn’t driven by human nature or mistaken ideas. It is an inevitable consequence of a system built on capital accumulation.---READ-->>
- Building resistance to Canada’s destructive mining industryLong-time activist Joan Kuyek brilliantly shares lessons from decades of fighting environmental and community disruption by Canada’s mining corporations---READ-->>
- Urban farming as a response to climate-driven food crises: Cuba shows the wayCuba’s experience suggests that urban farming can help stave off potential famine when the climate crisis cuts food production---READ-->>
- Climate change and overfishing boost toxic mercury levels in fishRising ocean temperatures are amplifying the accumulation of neurotoxins in fish that are often eaten by humans---READ-->>
- For Feminist Resistance to Population ControlWhen population is cast as the problem, restrictions like fertility control, heightened borders, dispossession, detention and imprisonment are posed as the solutions---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, November 2019The red and green shelf is overflowing! Nine important new books address topics ranging from ecosocialism and rising seas to trees, growth and global poverty.---READ-->>
- Essays on the New Global Capitalism‘Into the Tempest’ argues for a transnational popular project that leads to globalization from below---READ-->>
- Greta’s Song: ‘I want you to panic!’Composed and performed by The Sweet Janes, a duo based in Innsbruck, Austria.---READ-->>
- Disrupting the nitrogen cycle: Articles on a major metabolic riftHow the global nitrogen cycle has been disrupted by an economic system that values profits more than life itself.---READ-->>
- Keep It In The Ground!Produced by Bill Carroll, a musician and ecosocialist activist from Victoria, British Columbia.---READ-->>
- How Capitalism ‘Solved’ the Nitrogen Crisis (continued)Part Four of Ian Angus’s examination of the disruption of the global nitrogen cycle by an economic system that values profits more than life itself.---READ-->>
- When will the world’s wells run out of water?Within three decades, almost 80% of the lands that depend on groundwater will start to reach their natural irrigation limits as the wells run dry.---READ-->>
- Hands off Greta Thunberg!Defenders of capitalism, joined by some on the left, are attacking the young woman who has become the symbol of a mass movement. Our place is by her side.---READ-->>