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- Video: Ian Angus on the Anthropocene and ecosocialismWe now face the challenge of changing the world in the context of impending environmental disaster on a global scale. That’s reality in our time.---READ-->>
- Al Gore’s Convenient Infomercial for Green CapitalismAl Gore, the perfect spokesperson for the liberal approach to climate change, simply cannot see that neoliberal logic prevents our current institutions from addressing the crisis.---READ-->>
- Marx and Engels on ecology: A reply to radical criticsPaul Burkett and John Bellamy Foster answer left-green critics of ecological Marxism with a detailed study of what the founders of historical materialism actually wrote and thought about humanity’s present and future relationship to the earth---READ-->>
- New research shows irreversible changes in England in the AnthropoceneScientists find irreversible changes that have no precedent in the 4.54 billion years of Earth history, caused by new human-made materials---READ-->>
- UN report: Billions lack access to safe water and sanitationEvery year, 361,000 children under 5 years die due to diseases caused by poor sanitation and contaminated water---READ-->>
- To win climate justice we must hit Trump where it hurtsSouth African activist Patrick Bond says we need to generate international solidarity for climate justice by imposing popular sanctions against Trump and US corporations.---READ-->>
- Angus interview: How can we save the planet?We must understand how can we slow down changes that have already begun, which changes we can reverse, and how we can adapt those we can’t stop---READ-->>
- Growing food in the post-truth eraAgribusiness giants cause food insecurity and environmental degradation, while promoting the myth that industrial agriculture can feed the world better than small-scale, family farms.---READ-->>
- Les Misérables: Metabolic rift in the sewers of ParisVictor Hugo’s masterpiece includes a powerful attack on the urban wastefulness that steals nutrients from the land. Like Marx and Engels, he based his critique on the work of the chemist Justus von Liebig.---READ-->>
- ‘A Redder Shade of Green’ explores the intersections of science and socialismMartin Empson says Ian Angus’s new book makes the case for a renewed synthesis between science and the humanities, using the insights offered by both to develop a strategy for action.---READ-->>
- Anthropocene scientists reply to criticsA comprehensive response to scientific objections to formally recognizing a new unit of geological time shows that the Anthropocene cannot be dismissed as a scientific fad---READ-->>
- Essential Debates at the
Intersections of Science and SocialismIn the Introduction to his new book, Ian Angus says ecosocialism must be based on a careful and deliberate synthesis of Marxist social science and Earth System science — a twenty-first century rebirth of scientific socialism.---READ-->> - We Need a Much Bigger Leap! John Bellamy Foster on Naomi Klein’s ‘No Is Not Enough’There is much to admire in Naomi Klein’s new book, but she underestimates the danger posed by Trumpism, and doesn’t pose a real alternative. She calls for a Leap, but it isn’t high enough or far enough.---READ-->>
- Ten Theses on Farming and DiseaseThe corporate business model helps pathogens and pests to spread across the world. The only way to stop the next deadly pandemic is to end capitalist agribusiness as we know it.---READ-->>
- Trump, climate and the breakdown of multilateralismFor social movements and climate justice campaigners, the US abandonment of the agreement is disappointing, but there is also a unity in understanding that the future of humanity on this planet does not rest on leaders alone.---READ-->>
- An interesting but flawed take on the AnthropoceneMartin Empson says The Shock of the Anthropocene is a interesting account of the global environmental crisis, but it fails to offer to offer any alternative to the current system---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, June 2017Five new books on climate change and human health, ecology and imperialism in the global south, environmental economics, capitalism and universities, and the meaning of hegemony---READ-->>
- Barry Commoner: Radical father of modern environmentalism“The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production—in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation—essential as they are, make people sick and die.”---READ-->>
- Planting trees cannot replace cutting CO2 emissions‘Save the planet: Plant a Tree!’ It sounds good, but scientists say we can’t avoid dangerous climate change without rapid cuts in fossil fuel use, starting now.---READ-->>
- CO2, oceans, and atmosphere: a correctionThanks to positive feedback from a geochemist reader, I can correct my description of the global carbon dioxide cycle.---READ-->>