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- Introducing ‘A Redder Shade of Green’Ian Angus’s new book of ‘essential debates at the intersections of socialism and science’ will be available soon. Here’s what some early readers say about it.---READ-->>
- John Bellamy Foster answers five questions about Marxism and ecologyCan Marxism strengthen our understanding of ecological crises? The author of Marx’s Ecology replies to a critic on metabolic rift, sustainable human development, degrowth, population growth, and industrialism.---READ-->>
- Global climate broke multiple records in 2016; Extreme conditions continue in 2017World Meteorological Organization says 2016 made history, with a record global temperature, exceptionally low sea ice, and unabated sea level rise and ocean heat. Extreme weather and climate conditions continue in 2017.---READ-->>
- Marx and Engels and the Red ChemistAccounts of Marx and Engels’s lives ignore Carl Schorlemmer’s influence on their studies of the natural sciences. It is time to acknowledge his rightful place in the socialist tradition.---READ-->>
- Carbon dioxide levels now rising at record speedCO2 growth rate sets new record in 2015-16. Increase in the past ten years is 100 to 200 times as fast as the increase that ended the last ice age---READ-->>
- The terrifying mathematics of the AnthropoceneFor four billion years, one formula summarized global change. That has changed in just four decades, and if we don’t act quickly, human civilization may not survive.---READ-->>
- ‘Ecosocialism is more than a strategy, it’s a project for civilization’“Climate change is far more than a technological issue. It poses the fundamental question of a global alternative to this mode of production.”---READ-->>
- Countries on Trump’s ban list face world’s biggest humanitarian crisis since 1945Twenty million people face imminent death from starvation and famine. Many more will suffer and die from disease. These are the people that Trump is targeting.---READ-->>
- Heatwave frequency rises twice as fast in the poorest countriesNew research proves that the countries least responsible for global warming, those least able to adapt, have already been hit much harder by deadly extremes than rich nations — and the gap is growing---READ-->>
- Climate crisis: There is only one way outClimate catastrophe can only be averted if people around the globe unite in the biggest, broadest, most effective global social movement the world has ever seen---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, March 2017Three important new books on the growing global environmental crisis, and two that mark the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution … Peter Wadhams, Razmig Keucheyan, Orrin Pilkey, Neil Faulkner, Paul Le Blanc, David Mandel---READ-->>
- Socialist tendency formed in Australian Green Party“We need an internationalist perspective of climate justice that recognizes that we are all a part of the global ecosystem. We can only resolve climate change by achieving climate justice. None of us are free, until we are all free.”---READ-->>
- Will scientists rebel against Trumpism?The call for a March for Science on Earth Day is a major step forward in the fight to reverse Trump’s anti-science agenda and to build support for science in the public good.---READ-->>
- Celebrating Darwin Day: What to read on (and after) February 12“It is not too great an exaggeration to claim that On the Origin of Species was, along with Das Kapital, one of the two most significant works in the intellectual history of the nineteenth century.”---READ-->>
- New ecosocialist books coming from MR PressEssential reading for red-greens and green reds: Monthly Review Press announces new titles by Ian Angus, Kohei Saito, Chris Williams and Fred Magdoff---READ-->>
- Famine looms as millions go hungry in East AfricaFailed harvests, disease, deteriorating water and pasture conditions, and animal deaths mean 12 million need food aid now, and the situation is fast deteriorating---READ-->>
- Trump Against the PlanetJohn Bellamy Foster: This administration is not just a cabal of ignoramuses. Behind the right’s climate denial is the economic reality that seriously combating capitalism’s war on the planet requires the defeat of the system.---READ-->>
- Ten years of Climate & CapitalismClimate and Capitalism, ”an ecosocialist journal, reflecting the viewpoint of environmental Marxism,” was born on January 29, 2007. Ten years and 2500 articles later, C&C’s second decade has begun.---READ-->>
- Together, the labor and climate movements can trump TrumpThere will inevitably be tensions, but the core interests of workers and the labor movement lie both in defeating Trump and in forestalling the devastating effects of climate change on themselves and their posterity.---READ-->>
- Another attack on Anthropocene scienceA new conservative campaign aims to discredit efforts to define the new and dangerous stage of planetary history, by driving a wedge between social scientists and the Anthropocene Working Group.---READ-->>