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- 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people and nature not only as a primary failing of capitalism, but also as a mechanism through which capitalism may be superseded.---READ--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 Changed circumstances, unpublished works, and bad translations all played a role.---READ--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-->>
- Project Life: Cuba’s action plan prepares for climate changeAs an island nation, Cuba is particularly vulnerable to climate change. Project Life (Tarea Vida), now being implemented across the country, aims to increase the country’s resilience and minimize future damage---READ-->>
- Why we are marching for scienceStatement on the second annual March for Science on Saturday, April 14, 2018. “We need to transform the role of science in our world.”---READ-->>
- Sustainable Food Systems: An interview with Robert BielConventional farming destroys the complex soil ecosystem and ultimately the soil itself, so the risk of not changing it is too great. (Free book available for download)---READ-->>
- Shell knew about climate threat decades agoSecret documents reveal that the giant oil company’s scientists warned executives about the global impact of fossil fuels as early as 1981---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, April 2018Six new books for reds and greens … climate change and disease … capitalist power and the planet’s future … brain, body, and environment … oceanic art and science … essential fungi and life … the political economy of water.---READ-->>
- Can information technology save global fisheries?Masses of new data reveal where fish are being captured and by whom, and what determines fishing schedules. Will this information lead to sustainable fishing, so long as profit rules?---READ-->>
- Ecosocialism and consumerismCommodity accumulation leads people to identify with the means of destruction. We must aim to disintegrate links in the chain of capital reproduction.---READ-->>