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- 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-->>
- Ecosocialist Terry Townsend Needs Our HelpLong-time ecosocialist activist and writer Terry Townsend is fighting his way back from a massive stroke. You can help ensure that he can participate in political activity again.---READ-->>
- Terry Townsend: A Marxist Analysis of Climate ChangeFrom the archive: Why capitalism is destroying the earth, and why socialism is the only path to human survival in this century.---READ-->>
- Eight men’s wealth equals half the worldThe gap between rich and poor is far greater than previously reported, because the poorest half of the world has even less wealth than previous studies showed---READ-->>
- How poor countries finance the richIn one year, rich countries take $2 trillion more from poor countries than they return in aid and investment. The countries that brag most about their foreign aid are enabling mass theft.---READ-->>
- Creating a society that meets human needsHow might economic needs be met in a post-capitalist society? Is it possible to eliminate markets and make production choices democratically?---READ-->>
- Why capitalism is hopelessly addicted to fossil fuelsWith Donald Trump in the White House the future for our climate looks bleak, but capitalism’s love affair with fossil energy runs much deeper than the desires and personalities of individual politicians.---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, January 2017Ian Angus offers his opinions and recommendations, pro and con, on seven books he read while Climate & Capitalism was taking a break.---READ-->>
- Metabolic Rift and Ecological Value: the Ecosocialist ChallengeTo understand what ecological restoration will involve, we need to see clearly what is happening, what processes are taking place, what is irreversible, what can be refused, what can be overcome.---READ-->>
- Fidel Castro: Fight the ecological destruction threatening the planet!Climate & Capitalism joins millions of people around the world in mourning the death and honoring the life of Fidel Castro Ruz. In this short talk at the 1992 Earth Summit, Fidel described the Earth System crisis and identified its causes more powerfully than any other delegate.---READ-->>
- COP22: Can we UNF*CK the UNFCCC?The outcome of the latest UN climate negotiations is a page of bold promises, stirring calls, and grand statements, woefully empty of anything actionable.---READ-->>
- Corporate Power + Climate Change = GeocideSusan George: We are faced with determined adversaries who care nothing about human rights or climate change. They only want a world in which they can make endless amounts of money using all available resources, no matter what the costs to nature and to human life.---READ-->>
- Andreas Malm in conversation with trade union climate activistsVIDEO: Andreas Malm, author of Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming, speaks to the Campaign Against Climate Change Trade Union Group in London.---READ-->>
- Food Sovereignty: A Strategy for Environmental JusticeFood sovereignty offers a strategy for social mobilization that confronts rural disintegration while addressing environmental crises.---READ-->>