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- Economic reconstruction, debt cancellation and self-determination in Puerto Rico!One month after Hurricane Maria: ‘We need an adequately funded program of economic reconstruction (including the transition to renewable energy), the powers to carry it out and a true process of political self-determination.’---READ-->>
- Mexican activists demand: Stop Canadian mega-mines nowVictims of mining tell Trudeau: Canadian mining corporations damage health, contaminate and destroy environments, dispossess indigenous people, and harass, smear and assassinate critics. Get out now!---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, October 2017Six new books on Marx’s ecosocialist views, climate change and health, theory and action, inevitability versus contingency in evolution, new politics, and the meaning of Capital---READ-->>
- Before Maria, forcing Puerto Rico to pay its debt was odious. Now, it’s pure cruelty.To expect Puerto Rico to rebuild from this unnatural disaster while at the same time bailing out Wall Street financiers is to condemn its residents to a permanent state of crushing hardship and impoverishment.---READ-->>
- István Mészáros: Capitalism and Ecological DestructionIstván Mészáros, one of the finest political philosophers of our time, died on October 1. As this article shows, he was one of the first Marxists to identify the global environmental crisis as a central contradiction of late capitalism.---READ-->>
- Science & Society reviews Facing the Anthropocene‘Required reading for people trying to understand not only how the Anthropocene arrived on the scene, but why left-leaning people everywhere need to understand it’---READ-->>
- Memo to Jacobin: Ecomodernism is not ecosocialismIan Angus challenges a left-wing magazine that promotes geoengineering, nuclear power, carbon storage and other techno-fixes as solutions to climate change.---READ-->>
- Jacobin and ecomodernism: Two repliesClimate & Capitalism readers David Schwartzman and David Walters respond to criticism of Jacobin magazine’s special issue on climate change.---READ-->>
- How the ruling class remade New OrleansWhat will happen after the destruction caused by Harvey and Irma? The experience of New Orleans after Katrina shows what to expect when capitalists profit from disaster.---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, September 2017Five new books for green-left activists, on urban climate change, past mass extinctions, tropical rainforests, religious anti-science, and the end of Arctic ice.---READ-->>
- What we sow is what we eatThe failure of modern food production derives from the nature of our economic system, which considers everything and everyone a commodity. It doesn’t have to be this way.---READ-->>
- Cholera, Contingency, and Marx’s Drinking WaterEcosocialist Notebook: A visit to two historic sites in London prompts thoughts about the role of individuals in history, and the possibility that Marxism might never have happened.---READ-->>
- The green energy cornucopia is 100 percent wishful thinkingSerious energy policy must address overproduction, overconsumption and inequality. Without that, promises of an economy based on 100% renewable energy are misleading and dangerous.---READ-->>
- Should the left build an alternative energy commons?For Discussion: Patricia Mann says that building networks of renewable energy microproduction could be the basis for a mass anticapitalist movement. What do you think?---READ-->>
- One struggle: For social justice and against climate catastropheClimate-related catastrophe is now not just an additional hazard for the world’s poor, but a central factor in their oppression and poverty.---READ-->>
- What are the essential books on ecosocialism?HELP WANTED: What books would you include on basic and advanced reading lists for red-greens and green-reds?---READ-->>
- Hurricane Harvey and the Dialectics of NatureHouston is the city where capitalism’s victory over nature is the most complete — and also where nature takes its ultimate revenge---READ-->>
- In the Anthropocene, environmentalists must join wider battlesIn ‘Facing the Anthropocene’ Ian Angus shows that the earth system crisis originated in specific developments in late capitalism arising out of WWII. He also tells us who our enemies are.---READ-->>
- Creating an Ecological Society: Living well is the best revolutionThe authors’ command of ecology is not limited to Marx’s concept of metabolic rift. They lay out the facts of the eco-crisis and potential cures, minus cant and jargon.---READ-->>
- Capitalism puts profits first, but an ecological society will serve humanityFred Magdoff: “Decisions made about production and consumption will emphasize on positive effects on humans and the health of the broader environment, rather than the profits and wealth of a few”---READ-->>