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- Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable FutureIn ‘Climate Justice,’ grassroots activists from around the world, mostly women, tell their stories. A powerful and compassionate book.---READ-->>
- Greenhouse gases and mass extinctions: Speed killsIn past warming events, atmospheric CO2 rose too fast for many species to adapt. Today it is rising 10 times faster than at any time in 66 million years.---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, October 2018, Part 2Can the Working Class Change the World? Plagues and the Paradox of Progress. Fishing and Civilization. History of Fossil Fuel. Monopoly Seeds and the Fight to Save Food---READ-->>
- A Marxist History of CapitalismAn important work of Marxist history and theory restores class struggle to central place in explaining how capitalism arose and grew, and can eventually be overcome---READ-->>
- Reply to Trump: Global warming explained in three easy tweets137 words and two graphs. A climate scientist demolishes the world’s leading climate science denier---READ-->>
- IPCC report puts global warming crisis in Anthropocene frameworkImplicitly challenging the weak 2016 Paris Agreement, scientists say climate change is part of the broader global emergency and any responses must reflect that.---READ-->>
- Plastic plague intensifies on remote southern islandsPlastic pollution is now reaching some of the most remote areas of Earth. Scientists find 100 times more plastic debris on isolated South Atlantic islands than 30 years ago.---READ-->>
- IPCC: 1.5° will be bad and 2.0° will be worse, radical change needed NOWMajor report finds that global climate outlook is far worse than previously thought; calls for immediate and sweeping change to prevent catastrophe---READ-->>
- Half-Earth: A biodiversity ‘solution’ that solves nothingProposals to remove all humans from half of the Earth ignore the root causes of the biodiversity crisis and undermine progressive struggles for social justice.---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, October 2018New books: Essays for Richard Levins … The Earth is not for Sale … Defending Howard Zinn … The Rise of Capitalism … Degrowth … Climate Justice … Below Freezing---READ-->>
- Will big business destroy our planet?Corporate giants are driving the world towards environmental disaster. Will self-preservation force them to pull back and end the destruction?---READ-->>
- Science for the People needs your help!Climate & Capitalism strongly endorses this appeal. The work SftP does is essential to building a radical, science-based movement, so please help if you can.---READ-->>
- 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-->>