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- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, August 2016Five new books for green lefts and left greens. Cuban science fiction … the birth of the Anthropocene … agribusiness and disease … surviving catastrophe … rising seas … private plunder of public assets.---READ-->>
- Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray BookchinJanet Biehl’s engrossing biography shows that Bookchin, an unlikely social theorist and radical philosopher, produced an important body of work of lasting significance.---READ-->>
- Colonialism, Racism and the Global Dust Bowl of the 1930sAn important new paper challenges prevalent conceptions of the Dust Bowl, in which colonial and racial-domination aspects of the crisis are invisible, and affirms the necessity of deeper conceptions of environmental (in)justice.---READ-->>
- Millions face drought and famine in Southern AfricaWorst drought in 35 years causes crop failures, widespread malnutrition in 10 countries. More than 640,000 drought-related livestock deaths have been reported due to lack of pasture, lack of water and disease outbreaks.---READ-->>
- How the Great Acceleration has changed the planetAn important history of the Anthropocene updates the classic ‘Something New Under the Sun.’ It describes how our world has been transformed since 1945, but avoids discussing why.---READ-->>
- ‘Capitalism in the Web of Life’ – A CritiqueKamran Nayeri argues that Jason W. Moore’s theories involve major departures from Marxism, and do not themselves provide a coherent alternative approach to understanding capitalism’s impact on the natural world.---READ-->>
- A Radical Alternative to Capitalist CatastropheA valuable introduction to the development of Marxist thinking on the environment, by a leading ecosocialist. Michael Löwy explores proposals for radical change, and concrete experiences of the global struggle against ecocide.---READ-->>
- From Tar Sands to Green Jobs? Canada’s carbon emissions cannot be stabilized using plans that are acceptable to the capitalist classes and their interest in endless accumulation. An ambitious vision of ecosocialist alternatives must connect restructuring of work to wider social transformations.---READ-->>
- The Anthropocene and Marxism TodayVideo: John Bellamy Foster discusses the theoretical and programmatic challenges that the Anthropocene, a dangerous new epoch in planetary history, poses for socialists in the 21st century.---READ-->>
- ‘Town Halls’ in Toronto challenge Trudeau’s inaction on climateCanadian activists are finding ways to use the Liberal government’s highly restrictive ‘consultation’ process to demand real action to cut greenhouse gas emissions and stop pipeline projects.---READ-->>
- Some comments on Andreas Malm’s ‘Fossil Capital’Another contribution to C&C’s ongoing discussion of Andreas Malm’s masterful new book on the origins and current implications of an economic system whose deep dependence on fossil fuels threatens the survival of civilization.---READ-->>
- Summer reading for green-lefts and left-greensClimate & Capitalism is taking a short break. To help you avoid painful withdrawal symptoms, here are five books and a pamphlet that should be in every ecosocialist’s book bag this summer — or winter, if you are in the southern hemisphere.---READ-->>
- Two Views on Marxist Ecology and Jason W. MooreFred Murphy argues that John Bellamy Foster misrepresented and unfairly criticized Jason W. Moore. Ian Angus disagrees.---READ-->>
- Is there a vast cowspiracy about climate change?Cowspiracy’s argument is based on badly flawed and almost unanimously rejected interpretations of science. Actual science and scientists are hard to find among the many talking heads in the film.---READ-->>
- Video: Christopher Wright on ‘Facing the Anthropocene’“In the opening pages, I immediately recognized that here was an author who actually gets what the ‘Anthropocene’ entails both in terms of the physical science and the political economy of our times and conveys this in such a readable and accessible style.”---READ-->>
- Why changing our diets won’t save the EarthReceived wisdom says that to save the planet we have to change our eating habits. Elaine Graham-Leigh explains why the received wisdom isn’t just wrong, it blames working people for a crisis they didn’t cause.---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist bookshelf, June 2016Six new books for left-greens and green-lefts: Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century; Militarizing the Environment; The Great Acceleration; The Great Inequality; Congo’s Environmental Paradox; How Did We Get Into This Mess?---READ-->>
- In Defense of Ecological Marxism: John Bellamy Foster responds to a critic“Jason Moore has joined the long line of scholars who have set out to update or deepen Marxism in various ways, but have ended up by abandoning Marxism’s revolutionary essence and adapting to capitalist ideologies.”---READ-->>
- When the climate comes for you“I wrote this poem after I read about people in Pakistan digging mass graves in advance of the forecast heatwave, so as to not be caught unprepared, as they were last year.” — Kamala Emanuel---READ-->>
- Video: Ian Angus introduces ‘Facing the Anthropocene’Author’s presentation at book launch meeting for ‘Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System,’ at the Socialism for the 21st Century Conference in Sydney, Australia, May 13, 2013.---READ-->>