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- 20 Essential Books on Marxist Ecology (Updated)As the great American labor organizer and socialist Mary Harris ‘Mother’ Jones said: “Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.”---READ-->>
- ‘An important contribution to the fight to stop capitalist destruction’Book review and full video of meeting to launch ‘System Change Not Climate Change: A Revolutionary Response to Environmental Crisis.’---READ-->>
- Fred Magdoff on Climate Change, Capitalism, and SocialismVideo: What would a just and ecologically sustainable society look like? If the current economic system can’t respond, what strategies will advance our struggle?---READ-->>
- Challenging capitalism is the ultimate climate mitigation strategyThere are no easy fixes, but to succeed, climate activists must build a broader movement to challenge and transcend global capitalism---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, July 2019More books for reds and greens. Vanishing Fish … Between Earth and Empire … Making Rojava Green … One Planet, One Health … Why Carbon Trading Fails---READ-->>
- Confronting the rising tide of marine diseaseWarming the climate and polluting the sea is leading to explosive outbreaks of new infectious diseases---READ-->>
- Barry Commoner: The systems we depend on are upside downDecades ago, he showed that environmental, energy and economic crises had a common cause: a system that demands increased profits at all costs---READ-->>
- Gee Whiz! Communism is sure gonna be keen!‘Fully Automated Luxury Communism’ trivializes the global environmental crisis with badly-researched techno-hype and political plans that don’t come close to addressing the world’s problems.---READ-->>
- The ecosocialist views of Karl Marx – An interview with Kohei SaitoThe winner of the 2018 Deutscher Prize discusses Karl Marx’s radical understanding of capitalism’s deadly disruption of the universal metabolism of nature.---READ-->>
- On the future of farming and ecomodernist illusionsSome writers imagine that machines can feed the world. They ignore the damage caused by industrial agriculture, and don’t value the work of people who feed most of humanity today.---READ-->>
- Atmospheric carbon dioxide level hits all-time highSeventh consecutive year of steep increases leads to the highest greenhouse gas concentration recorded in 61 years of observations---READ-->>
- What will it take to win a Green New Deal?Canadian NGOs have launched a “Pact for a Green New Deal.” Will they build the movement that’s needed to win real changes?---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, June 2019Marxist environmental essays … Science and the Anthropocene … Is disaster avoidable? … Capitalism at sea … Beef and class struggle … Climate and the biggest volcano---READ-->>
- Environment, Labor, and Capitalism at SeaA compelling first-hand study shows that fishing is a deadly occupation because capitalism forces workers to take terrible risks in order to survive.---READ-->>
- Superbugs in the Anthropocene: A Profit-Driven PlagueThe promise of a world without disease has been replaced by warnings of evermore virulent pathogens, created by the drugs that were supposed to save us.---READ-->>
- Amazonian community’s lands destroyed for ‘sustainable’ palm oilWith 7,000 hectares of forests destroyed, community leaders and members have faced multiple attempts on their lives, threats and intimidation.---READ-->>
- Major step towards formalizing the AnthropoceneBULLETIN: Overwhelming majority of working group votes: A new epoch in Earth history began in the mid-20th century---READ-->>
- Fine dust and fossil capital in KoreaThere is a good reason why there are blue skies in much of the United States while those of us living in Northeast Asia are choking — most of their factories have moved over here.---READ-->>
- Fossil capitalism, ecosocialism, and the Anthropocene crisisIan Angus speaking in Ottawa following a tour of the National Gallery of Canada exhibit on the Anthropocene---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, May 2019Two views of food and farming. The origin of climate science denial. The high cost of living well. And a socialist who mostly disagrees with ecosocialism---READ-->>