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- Thinking about nuclear: Hard choices that may cost the planetSome environmentalists want both nuclear power and renewables. Richard Seymour says that’s an evasion. We must choose, and the choice isn’t easy.---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, September 2018New books for reds and greens. Three centuries of factories; Holland in the Little Ice Age; Thinking in deep time; Horizontal Gene Transfer; The physics of evolution---READ-->>
- The Omega Principle: A vicious circle of fish, cattle and capitalismHow a giant industry that plunders the seas for tiny fish is reinforcing unsustainable industrial agriculture---READ-->>
- Warmer climate = more hungry insects = less foodNew research: Each one degree rise in global temperature will increase insect-driven losses to rice, corn and wheat crops by 10 to 25 percent---READ-->>
- Degrowth consideredThe ecological insights of degrowth theory are undermined by blindspots about renewability, agriculture, unalienated labor, and the power of our enemies---READ-->>
- To overcome climate paralysis, unite for system changeOn the precipice of disaster, we have vast numbers of potential allies. All our differences pale next to the overwhelming urgency of our common task.---READ-->>
- Engineering the climate could cost us the earthGeoengineering is a political technology, part of institutional apparatus that is preventing effective climate action and delaying structural change---READ-->>
- Carrying capacity, technology, and ecomodernist confusionA radical biologist replies to an ecomodernist who ignores the social roots of environmental crises---READ-->>
- Ecomodernism and nuclear power: No solution for climate changeIn ‘Energy: A Human History,’ Richard Rhodes trivializes the dangers of nuclear power and plunges into the abyss of ecomodernist technobabble.---READ-->>
- ‘There is still time for an ecological revolution to prevent Hothouse Earth’We need hundreds of millions of people to mobilize in an independent, revolutionary campaign to reconstitute global production and consumption.---READ-->>
- Arundhati Roy: The deadly flood in Kerala may be only a gentle warning‘Unbridled greed, denuding of forest land, illegal construction, destruction of natural water systems, and mismanagement of dams, have all played a huge part.’---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, August 2018Six new books for reds & greens. Marxist History of Capitalism. Superbugs. Rising Oceans. Capitalism in Critical Theory. Food Bank Nations. American Oligarchy---READ-->>
- An ecosocialist reply to a defender of ‘green capitalism’People running big corporations—indeed, those running businesses of all sizes—seek to maximize profits not because they are misguided, but because that’s their job in a capitalist economy.---READ-->>
- The fires this time: Implications for ecosocialist strategyA call for public discussion of the role of deindustrialization in building an alternative to the catastrophic course of 21st century capitalism.---READ-->>
- An unstoppable drive to Hothouse Earth?Can the global climate be stabilized before runaway change creates conditions that are too hot for human civilization and deadly for most species?---READ-->>
- Australia: Worst drought ever, but don’t mention climate change!“At the federal level there is a climate information vacuum of truth and at the state level there is no action.”---READ-->>
- Eternity, nature, society and the absurd fantasies of the richThe wealthier they are, the more they fear that others will try to take their wealth. No wonder the super-rich are building bunkers to escape the apocalypse.---READ-->>
- Packed NYC meeting celebrates relaunch of Science for the PeopleReborn organization and magazine will combine writing on scientific issues, building a network of radical scientists, and acting for social justice---READ-->>
- State of the Climate Report: It’s hot and getting hotterIt’s official: 2017 was the third-warmest year on record, and the hottest non-El Niño year. Greenhouse gases hit record highs and sea levels kept on rising---READ-->>
- Invasive species and ‘rewilding’ – Is doing nothing a solution?In ‘The New Wild,’ Fred Pearce argues nature will restore itself if we just leave it alone. Is passive acceptance really the best response to biodiversity loss?---READ-->>