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- Key to the Leap: Leave the oil in the soilIan Angus and John Riddell argue that using the Leap Manifesto as the basis for building a new socialist movement in Canada must include confronting the climate crisis and the power of Big Oil.---READ-->>
- The Age of GarbageHow will future geologists recognize the beginning of the Anthropocene in rock records? Quite possibly by an unprecedented accumulation of fossilized trash.---READ-->>
- The British Columbia Carbon Tax: A Failed ExperimentBritish Columbia’s carbon tax has been held up as a climate success, but an analysis of the province’s emissions under the tax tells another story.---READ-->>
- Announcing:
The nearly carbon-free climate justice conferenceA three-week discussion of ‘The World in 2050: Imagining and Creating Just Climate Futures’ has begun on a computer screen near you.---READ-->> - Victor Wallis reviews ‘Facing the Anthropocene’‘Ian Angus’s distinctive contribution is to underscore, with his geologically grounded perspective, the need to combine immediate measures of relief with a long-term agenda of transformation.’---READ-->>
- Hannah Holleman on environmental justice and ecological imperialism“The pace and scale of ecological degradation we confront today is unfathomable without understanding the legacy and persistent realities of ecological imperialism.”---READ-->>
- Corporate climate risk is about profit, not fixing the problem‘Like latter-day wizardry, corporate risk calculations suggest that markets and capital can, not only control the natural world, but somehow anticipate it’---READ-->>
- 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-->>