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- What to read while C&C takes a breakClimate & Capitalism will resume its regular publishing schedule on or about October 24. In the meantime, have you read these top-rated articles from the summer of 2016?---READ-->>
- If Nature Is Sacred, Capitalism Is WickedUnder capitalism, everything is a business opportunity. Disasters are not viewed by business leaders as problems to be solved, they are seen as circumstances of which they must take advantage.---READ-->>
- Is renewable energy really environmentally friendly?Renewable energy sources may have low CO2 emissions at the point of use, but the mines that make the technology possible are often environmentally destructive---READ-->>
- ‘Anthropocene or Capitalocene?’ misses the pointThe authors of this book have very little to say about the Anthropocene, the crisis of the Earth System, or the new global epoch, and most of what they do say is misleading or wrong.---READ-->>
- Ecocide in the Niger DeltaIn Nigeria, oil extraction and production has devastating consequences for the people living in the Niger Delta, but those who flee are not protected by the Geneva Convention on Refugees.---READ-->>
- U.S. labor brass to pipeline protestors: Drop Dead!Conservative AFL-CIO leaders support the Dakota Access pipeline, oppose the Standing Rock Sioux campaign to protect land, people and water.---READ-->>
- Two more radical precursors of Anthropocene scienceLong before the Anthropocene Working Group reported on the new epoch, Yrjö Haila and Richard Levins argued that global ecohistory entered a new stage sometime after World War II---READ-->>
- Facing the Anthropocene: September book launch eventsMark your calendars: Ian Angus speaks on ‘Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System,’ at public meetings in Vancouver, Toronto, and Ottawa---READ-->>
- Video: Ian Angus on the Crisis of the Earth SystemDharna Noor of Real News Network interviews C&C editor Ian Angus about the proposal to declare a new geological epoch, and his new book, ‘Facing the Anthropocene.’---READ-->>
- Enbridge Mercenaries Attack Native American ProtestersVideo: Democracy Now! reports from protests against pipeline that would carry about 500,000 barrels of crude per day from North Dakota’s Bakken oilfield---READ-->>
- Book review: How did we get into this mess?Social and environmental problems are aptly diagnosed in George Monbiot’s new book and, more importantly, they are diagnosed with great flair and eloquence.---READ-->>
- Expert panel: The Anthropocene epoch has definitely begunKey conclusion of Anthropocene Working Group report to Geological Congress: the ‘Great Acceleration’ in the second half of the 20th century marked the end of the Holocene and the beginning of a new geological epoch.---READ-->>
- Capitalism driving biodiversity loss to point of no returnAshley Dawson: ‘Today’s mass extinction crisis is one of the clearest indications we have of the fundamental irrationality and destructiveness of the capitalist system.’---READ-->>
- Marx and the Earth: Why we wrote an ‘anti-critique’The German daily Junge Welt interviews John Bellamy Foster on capitalism’s destruction of nature, ecological Marxism from Marx’s time to the present, and the environmental crisis as a class issue.---READ-->>
- Climate justice and the prospect of powerClimate justice activists have not yet found a path to transformational change. That can only emerge from the experiences of all working people here and worldwide, present and past.---READ-->>
- First nation chiefs deposed for supporting pipeline“When you are a hereditary chief leader you have responsibilities to your clan and you have to consult. They didn’t do that. Everything was a big secret up till now. At the end of the day, they are crawling into bed with Enbridge.”---READ-->>
- Book Review: The Birth of the AnthropoceneIan Angus: “I can’t recall another book that positions the present global crisis in Earth’s deep history so well, in a form that can be readily understood by non-specialists. Every ecosocialist should read it.”---READ-->>
- A vision of democratic ecosocialismHans Baer: “Democratic eco-socialism rejects a statist, growth-oriented, productivist ethic and recognizes that humans live on an ecologically fragile planet with limited resources that must be sustained and renewed as much as possible for future generations.”---READ-->>
- Science, Socialism and the AnthropoceneIan Angus: “We must have a concrete materialist understanding of how our world works and is changing. Without that, our political views would be floating in mid-air, with no concrete foundation.”---READ-->>
- Confirmed: 2015 set all-time heat recordsThe annual State of the Climate report confirms that 2015 surpassed 2014 as the warmest year ever recorded. Greenhouse gases, surface temperatures and global sea levels all passed previous highs.---READ-->>