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- 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-->>
- An engineer, an economist, and an ecomodernist walk into a bar and order a free lunch . . .Stan Cox says ecomodernists are far better at inventing technological fantasies than at finding ways to solve environmental crises---READ-->>
- Scientists urge immediate action to prevent global biodiversity collapse“Fifty years ago biologists expected to be the first to find a species, now they hope not to be the last.”---READ-->>
- Barry Commoner’s Science for the PeopleIn honor of the relaunch of Science for the People, Climate & Capitalism is proud to co-publish this profile of a great scientific fighter for radical social change.---READ-->>
- Red-Green Revolution: The politics and technology of ecosocialismVictor Wallis’s new book is an important contribution to the growing ecosocialist movement, a passionate call to organize and act against capitalist ecocide---READ-->>
- ‘Kill All the Gentlemen’ — seven centuries of class struggle in rural EnglandIn his insightful history of rural rebellion, Martin Empson shows how farmers and farm-workers across England have repeatedly risen against the rich and powerful---READ-->>
- The Belem Ecosocialist Declaration: An historic documentTen years ago, more than 400 activists from 37 countries endorsed this statement of ecosocialist principles and goals.---READ-->>
- Science for the People relaunches with special issue on geoengineeringRadical science magazine returns with an important volume on climate engineering, a documentary on SftP’s history and rebirth, and a renewed commitment to activism.---READ-->>
- Radical scientist reviews ‘A Redder Shade of Green’Writing in ‘Science & Society,’ noted biogeochemist and ecosocialist David Schwartzman says Ian Angus’s new book provides invaluable insights on the intersections of science and socialism.---READ-->>
- Online now: Cesspools, Sewage, and Social MurderIan Angus examines how the 19th century metabolic rift in agriculture that so concerned Karl Marx triggered a pollution crisis in the world’s largest city---READ-->>
- Studying the health impacts of global environmental changePlanetary Health, a new field of scientific research, focuses on the human health impacts of the growing disruption of Earth’s metabolic systems---READ-->>
- To feed the world, support small farms and restore healthy soilExposing three myths that hinder the agricultural revolution that can restore degraded soils and feed the world using fewer agrochemicals.---READ-->>
- Why the food movement needs to understand capitalismTo fully appreciate the challenges we face in transforming our food system we need to explore the economic and political context in which food is grown, sold and consumed in the world today---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, July 2018Essential summer reading for green-lefts and left-greens. Ecosocialist essays on metabolic rifts. James Connolly Reader. A Nation Unmade by War. Formerly Known as Food. Nourished Planet.---READ-->>
- Beginning to end hunger: Belo Horizonte shows the wayA Brazilian city’s food program feeds the hungry and supports local farmers. It succeeds by empowering communities and challenging inequality.---READ-->>
- Socialist magazine explores capital’s metabolic riftsSpecial issue features new articles by John Bellamy Foster, Hannah Holleman, Ian Angus, Michael Friedman, Brett Clark, Stefano Longo, and Justus von Liebig---READ-->>
- Poisoned City: How Flint fought backAnna Clark’s new book shows how working people in Michigan organized and fought back when neoliberal austerity policies poisoned their drinking water.---READ-->>
- Energy and Climate Change: No progress in 20 yearsBP statistics show we are far from meeting the emission reduction targets adopted in the Paris Agreement. In 2017, we took a step backwards.---READ-->>
- Why avoiding meat and dairy won’t save the planetAnti-meat campaigns ignore the essential role that grazing animals play in genuinely sustainable agriculture. Livestock production must be reformed, but eliminating it would do more harm than good.---READ-->>