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- 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-->>
- Food sovereignty and climate changeIndustrial agriculture is grounded in the use of fossil fuel and high energy consumption. Campesino agriculture with an agro-ecological basis is the only force capable of achieving food sovereignty and responding to climate change.---READ-->>
- Planetary Crisis: We are not all in this togetherClimate change and extreme weather events are not devastating a random selection of human beings from all walks of life. There are no billionaires among the dead, no corporate executives living in shelters, no stockbrokers watching their children die of malnutrition.---READ-->>
- Global inequality is much worse than we’ve been toldNew analysis of global inequality shows that the income gap between people in rich and poor countries is far wider than policymakers are willing to admit.---READ-->>
- Explaining the Anthropocene:
An interview with Ian Angus“We don’t know how long we have before climate change goes from dangerous to extremely dangerous, but we know that continuing with business as usual makes such a shift increasingly likely.”---READ-->> - Climate & Capitalism editor on Australian speaking tour, April 30-May 14C&C will be taking a break while Ian Angus speaks at ecosocialist meetings in seven Australian cities, and launches his new book at the Socialism for the 21st Century conference in Sydney.---READ-->>
- Can we shop our way to a better world?Lifestyle change and ‘ethical consumerism’ are not bridges to effective social change, but barriers to it. To build effective social movements, we must begin by rejecting individualist approaches.---READ-->>
- Population and food sovereignty: An exchangeIan Angus replies to a reader. If ‘overpopulation’ is not a primary cause of global environmental problems, what about island nations with limited space and resources?---READ-->>
- Climate justice movement shakes
Canada’s New Democratic PartyThe impact of the Leap Manifesto at the party convention opens major opportunities to deepen the debate on climate justice and to build an ecosocialist left in and around the NDP.---READ-->> - Fishers and plunderers: The tragedy of the commodityOverfishing, pollution and warming water have pushed the world’s oceans into crisis. If nothing is done the results will be catastrophic for marine systems and the billions of humans who rely on them. To stop this destruction our society has to be organized in a completely different way.---READ-->>
- Canada: Leap Manifesto unites broad forces, builds climate justice campaignsThe Truth and Reconciliation Commission has acknowledged shocking details about the violence of Canada’s near past. Deepening poverty and inequality are a scar on the country’s present. And Canada’s record on climate change is a crime against humanity’s future.---READ-->>
- Understanding and confronting the great inequalityMichael Yates explains why inequality matters, how it negatively affects nearly every aspect of our lives, how its underlying causes are rooted in modern capitalism, and why informed radical action by working people, the unemployed and the poor is needed to overcome the great inequality that marks our time.---READ-->>
- The real population problem is too many capitalists“There are too many coal barons, too many oil tycoons, too many politicians who are completely tied to the fossil fuel industry, too many vested interests that don’t want change.” Radio Adelaide interviews Simon Butler.---READ-->>
- John Bellamy Foster answers three questions on Marxism and ecologyIn the present planetary epoch, the concept of sustainable human development, as a way of conceiving of socialism, represents Marx’s most valuable legacy. No other ecological analysis has such breadth and power.---READ-->>