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- “An accessible and convincing case for ecosocialism”“This necessary book details the full spectrum of environmental issues facing us today, demonstrates their scientific and political causes, and delivers a sobering warning”---READ-->>
- Capitalism, exterminism and the long ecological revolutionC&C begins the new year with an extensive interview with John Bellamy Foster, editor of Monthly Review, about the need to fight for a revolutionary ecosocialist alternative to the profit-driven world capitalist system.---READ-->>
- Big Bad Fix: The case against climate geoengineeringTechnologies that promise a quick fix to the climate crisis actually pose high risks to people, ecosystems and security, and are dangerous distractions from the urgent need for deep emission cuts.---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, December 2017Six new books on democratic eco-socialism, war and the environment, genes and intelligence, climate change and the Roman Empire, the little ice age in North America, and views of the Anthropocene---READ-->>
- Debate: Should ecosocialists oppose population growth?In ‘A Redder Shade of Green,’ did Ian Angus unfairly criticize people who believe overpopulation is a major environmental problem?---READ-->>
- Major study shows species loss destroys essential ecosystemsLong term research by German ecologists proves that loss of biodiversity has “direct, unpleasant consequences for mankind.”---READ-->>
- Is mass extinction unimportant? (Updated)A biology professor says the sixth mass extinction is no big deal because other species will evolve to fill in the gaps. History, ecology and ethics say he’s dead wrong.---READ-->>
- Marx’s ecological critique of political economyVideo: John Bellamy Foster on “Marx’s ‘Capital’ and the Earth” — political economy and the materialist understanding of nature---READ-->>
- “I paint what I see,” said RiveraMarking the 60th anniversary of the death of one of the greatest artists of the 20th Century.---READ-->>
- Make fossil fuel giants pay for climate change destruction!‘It is now time for the industry most responsible to pay for the damage it has caused, and for vulnerable countries worst affected to receive the financial assistance they so urgently need’---READ-->>
- New reports expose ‘high and rising’ global inequalityEight years after the great recession supposedly ended, global inequality continues to deepen, exposing claims that “wealth trickles down” and “a rising tide raises all boats” as class-based lies.---READ-->>
- Heatwaves can kill 27 ways, and climate change puts 74% of humanity at riskTwo recent studies show how dangerous heatwaves can be, and how global warming will put three-quarters of humanity at risk by 2100. “We are running out of choices.”---READ-->>
- At global climate talks, La Via Campesina calls for peasant agroecology“Our call for system change is urgent because the damage is growing. Commons, including land, forests and water, must be protected and restored to the people. We need to work together with our allies to be prepared for climate change.”---READ-->>
- Slightly warmer temperatures caused Atlantic superstormsA hundred thousand years ago, slightly warmer temperatures and CO2 levels lower than today led to dramatic superstorms and sea-level rise in the western Atlantic Ocean---READ-->>
- “There is no convincing alternative explanation”The new U.S. Climate Science Special Report is unequivocal: climate change is real, it is caused by human activity, especially greenhouse gas emissions, and it is getting more dangerous every day---READ-->>
- John Bellamy Foster on Jacobin and EcomodernismThe editor of Monthly Review responds to ‘socialists’ who view the environmental crisis as a problem of technology, not a fundamental rift in society’s relationship with nature.---READ-->>
- MR Press launches pathbreaking new books on ecosocialismKohei Saito, Ian Angus, Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams offer powerful, historically grounded arguments and a way forward for society and the earth---READ-->>
- Lancet report: Health impact of climate change impact is ‘the major threat of 21st century’The health of millions of people across the world is already being significantly harmed by climate change, a major new report finds.---READ-->>
- Greenhouse gas concentrations surge to new record‘The last time the Earth experienced a comparable concentration of CO2 was 3-5 million years ago, the temperature was 2-3°C warmer and sea level was 10-20 meters higher than now.’---READ-->>
- Sustainable agriculture versus corporate greedFred Magdoff reviews a new book in which Australian activists explain what’s wrong with corporate profit-centred agriculture and propose a manifesto for a people-centred alternative.---READ-->>