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- Essential reading on the Paris climate agreementThe first draft of history: An annotated guide to thirty-four of the best articles on the COP21 Paris Agreement on climate change.---READ-->>
- Anthropocene Working Group:
Yes, a new epoch has begunExperts agree: Changes since 1950 rival those that ended the last ice age. The Holocene is over, and the Anthropocene has begun.---READ-->> - Top 10 C&C articles of 2015 … and of all timeThere are now 2,064 articles on the Climate & Capitalism website. These are the most-read of 2015, and the most-read since 2007. How many have you read?---READ-->>
- Ground zero of climate changeThe coastal and island nations of the Asia-Pacific have contributed the least to global climate change, but suffer the most from climate breakdown and disaster capitalism---READ-->>
- Film: Scotland’s Landscape of FearLiam Young examines the causes of environmental damage in Scotland and the impact communities can have when they take control of their own resources.---READ-->>
- Why capitalism is addicted to oil and coal‘Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming.’ A brilliant Marxist critique of capitalism and the origins of the fossil fuel economy---READ-->>
- Paris climate agreement: a terror attack on AfricaPatrick Bond: Supporters of the climate deal reached at the Paris Conference of Polluters are endorsing a plan that will kill millions---READ-->>
- Seven objections to the Paris climate dealOscar Reyes: Hailed as a breakthrough and the beginning of a new world, the COP21 Agreement is long on rhetoric and short on action.---READ-->>
- At COP21, the world agreed to increase emissionsSome countries will reduce emissions a little, but other countries will increase them a lot. You would never know this from UN and media reports.---READ-->>
- Film Review: Are cows destroying the climate?How not to change the world. ‘Cowspiracy’ ignores capitalism and rejects Indigenous peoples’ concerns, while denouncing everyone who eats meat.---READ-->>
- Ian Angus: COP21, the climate crisis, and ecosocialismInterview with Climate & Capitalism editor: The environmental question is the most important problem that we face in the 21st century: If we don’t recognize its centrality, our politics will be irrelevant.---READ-->>
- The tragedy of the commons, the Pope, and the systemMichael Lebowitz: “The tragedy of our commons is that our finite world is being destroyed by the relentless drive for profit, by the system we must name—capitalism.”---READ-->>
- Naomi Klein’s: Capitalism versus ClimateIn ‘This Changes Everything,’ Naomi Klein shows that industry interests are opposed to those of ordinary people, a point climate activists have had trouble communicating and been reluctant to embrace---READ-->>
- Anthropocene: What’s in a name?Objections to the word ‘Anthropocene’ are misguided.---READ-->>
- Climate change: It’s going to take a revolutionA new video by Suhail Ilyas: The growing strength of the climate movement around the world gives us great hope, but only a revolution can save the world for future generations.---READ-->>
- How will we get to an ecological civilization?Capitalism’s infrastructure, which is designed to dominate nature, cannot simply be taken over and used for an ecological transformation. Only a complete, root-and-branch change will do the job.---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, October 2015Five new books for green-lefts and left-greens … two on capitalism and environmental destruction, and three on the Anthropocene---READ-->>
- ‘Atmosphere of Hope’ bets on ‘geo-engineering lite’Book review: Tim Flannery’s ‘third way’ proposes techno-fixes for climate change that suppress some symptoms while leaving the disease alone.---READ-->>
- Marxism, ecology, and the great transitionAn important new essay by John Bellamy Foster initiates a public discussion on Marxism’s role in preventing a global environmental catastrophe---READ-->>
- Unions and the climate justice movementAn IWW supporter discusses how can radical activists and environmentalists work with conservative workers and unions.---READ-->>