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- 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-->>
- 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-->>