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- What the Monsanto Papers tell us about corporate scienceInternal documents released in a lawsuit by cancer victims show how the chemical giant actively subverts science to promote its products and profits.---READ-->>
- Vladimir Vernadsky and the Disruption of the BiosphereVirtually unknown in the west, the great Russian geologist and geochemist pioneered scientific study of life’s impact on the Earth.---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, June 2018New Books! Red-Green Revolution. Rural Class Struggle. Climate Anthropology. Will Big Business Destroy the Planet? A Climate Justice Comic. Plundering Africa. Global Inequality.---READ-->>
- Remembering Joel Kovel, a towering pioneer of ecosocialismMichael Löwy reflects on the life and contributions of our friend and comrade Joel Kovel, who died on April 30.---READ-->>
- Are tropical cyclones getting wetter and stronger?Climate scientists: A global increase in the most intense tropical storms due to global warming is not just predicted by models but is already happening.---READ-->>
- Ecosocialism and the recovery of Marx’s ecological legacyAn ecology that truly seeks to confront today’s challenges requires Marx’s remarkable analysis of the destructive logic inherent in the unlimited accumulation of capital.---READ-->>
- The Magical Thinking of EcomodernismEcomodernists claim material growth can continue indefinitely without environmental damage. Degrowth advocate Jason Hickel says their arguments ignore both evidence and logic.---READ-->>
- Making the case against geoengineeringThe Big Bad Fix powerfully exposes the dangers of deliberate climate modification, and presents alternatives. A deeper focus on fighting the fossil industry would strengthen the argument.---READ-->>
- Climate change and Canada’s next leftAt a time when the activist left is weak and divided, it’s vital to focus on common goals and principles, rather than obsessing over difference and division---READ-->>
- Sea level rise endangers sewage treatment in U.S.Global warming gets toxic: The number of people who will lose sewage treatment could be five times more than those directly affected by flooding---READ-->>
- Earth’s Circular Economy: Recycling as a Law of LifeOn every scale, from the smallest cells to the entire planet, the essential elements of life are constantly used and re-used. Biogeochemical cycles are the basis of the biosphere.---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, May 2018Environmentalism of the Rich, A Scientist’s Fight for a Nuclear Test Ban, Limits to Capitalist Nature, Cocoa, Extracting Profit from Africa, Indigenous Struggles in Peru---READ-->>
- Marx, nature, and political moralityMarx saw the rift between people and nature not only as a primary failing of capitalism, but also as a mechanism through which capitalism may be superseded.---READ-->>
- Marx and Metabolism: Lost in translation?Why wasn’t Marx’s concept of metabolic rift recognized until recently? Changed circumstances, unpublished works, and bad translations all played a role.---READ-->>
- Ecological Marxism vs. environmental neo-Malthusianism: An old debate continuesDespite being consistently discredited, overpopulation ideology resurfaces with the same predictable regularity as capitalist crises. Only Marxism offers a clear alternative.---READ-->>
- The Keeling Curve at 60: A portrait of climate crisisIf you’ve ever wondered what a scientific representation of metabolic rift might look like, check out this graph.---READ-->>
- Hugo Blanco on the indigenous struggle for land in Peru“I have taken the term ‘Indian’ as the title of the book. It is the pejorative term used against us. The whip they use to hit our faces. I have picked up the whip. I find it more appropriate than using terms that soften or diminish the oppression.”—Hugo Blanco---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, April 2018, Part 2Three highly recommended books in the Democratic Marxism series: Marxisms in the 21st Century, Capitalism’s Crises, and The Climate Crisis.---READ-->>
- Five Revolutions: How bacteria created the biosphere and caused the first climate crisisMetabolic Rifts Today. Beginning a new series by Ian Angus, on how contemporary science illuminates and extends metabolic rift theory in the 21st century.---READ-->>
- Where’s the ‘eco’ in ecomodernism?Eco-modernists promise that technology can solve all environmental problems and provide abundance for all. There is no sustainable way to do that.---READ-->>