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- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, October 2019New books for reds and greens. Climate Change Guide; After Geoengineering; Environment & Health; Canada’s Climate Failure; Whose Water is it? Air Travel.---READ-->>
- Millions of years of low CO2 … until nowIn Facing the Anthropocene, I showed that CO2 levels are higher than they have been for 800,000 years. New research extends that to 2.6 million years---READ-->>
- Socialism is the only realistic solution to climate changeCapitalism will not and cannot prevent climate disaster. A socialist response at governmental and societal level is an historic necessity.---READ-->>
- Capitalism ‘Solves’ the Nitrogen Crisis: A Brief HistoryPart Three 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-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, Sept. 2019, Part 2We seldom receive enough new books to justify two columns in one month, but our red and green bookshelf is overflowing …---READ-->>
- China and the Prospects for a Global Ecological CivilizationAs the world leader in renewable energy capacity and production, China has the potential to open up a path for global ecosocialist transition, if …---READ-->>
- Capitalism versus the Global Carbon CycleCarbon cycles regulate the Earth’s temperature and provide essential elements of life. Capitalist industry and agriculture are disrupting those vital life support systems---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, September 2019Five books for reds and greens …. Waste … Solar Power … Sustainable Food Systems … Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society … America’s Overripe Economy.---READ-->>
- Again: Does Anthropocene Science Blame All Humanity?New scientific papers explode the myth that refuses to die.---READ-->>
- Warming oceans will ‘unleash misery on a global scale’Special Report will detail anticipated declines in fish stocks as well as increases in damage by superstorms and mass displacement due to rising seas---READ-->>
- Should progressives support restricting immigration?A pseudo-progressive argument for closed borders uses false logic and dubious statistics, and blames migrants for the conditions that force them to move.---READ-->>
- Marx’s notebooks and the origins of Marxist ecologyFinally published in full, Marx’s notebooks from the 1860s provide important insights into his views on ecology and capital’s destruction of nature.---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, August 2019New books for reds and greens. How the Richest Drive Climate Change; Planning from Below; The Scottish Clearances; Slime; Here Comes the Sun; Eco-Socialism and Practical Utopias---READ-->>
- As climate crisis grows, temperatures set global recordsGrim reading from US government scientists. For five years, every July has set a worldwide temperature record — and this year was the worst of all---READ-->>
- The Fight Against Monsanto’s RoundupActivists make the case that this widely used pesticide is wreaking havoc on the earth, killing not just weeds but multiple species, including our own---READ-->>
- What the new IPCC report says about climate change and landSummary of new UN report that documents the impact of climate change on land and agriculture — and how land misuse accelerates climate change.---READ-->>
- Rojava: A practical example of ecosocialism?This article, submitted to C&C by the Make Rojava Green Again campaign, introduces an important attempt to build a democratic, feminist and ecologist society.---READ-->>
- What kind of rebellion will save humanity from extinction?The real power of mass civil disobedience is not its ability to shock the powerful into listening, but rather its potential to draw masses of people into action.---READ-->>
- How fast is the climate changing?Dangerous climate change is not just something that might happen in the future. It is visibly happening now and it is rapidly getting worse.---READ-->>
- The Discovery and Rediscovery of Metabolic RiftIan Angus discusses the scientific developments that led Marx to develop metabolic rift theory in the 1800s, and a new generation to rediscover it the 21st century.---READ-->>