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- Unhealthy environments kill 12.6 million a yearAn estimated 12.6 million people died as a result of living or working in an unhealthy environment in 2012 – nearly 1 in 4 of total global deaths, according to new estimates from the World Health Organization.---READ-->>
- Why we don’t bother to debate with climate science deniers, illustratedIf people are just confused about climate, they can be reasoned with. The facts are convincing, to anyone who is willing to see. But nothing convinces hard core science deniers, as this 2009 episode from Wiley Miller’s comic strip Non Sequitur illustrates.---READ-->>
- The True Cost of Cheap MeatMartin Empson reviews Farmageddon, an important expose of the disastrous failings of the global food system that never quite gets to the bottom of why the agricultural system is like it is.---READ-->>
- Condemn the murder of Honduran indigenous leader!Berta Cáceres was a firm defender of small farmers and indigenous peoples’ rights and an inspiring social activist, both at regional and continental level, in defense of social and environmental justice, She was murdered in her home on March 3, by “unknown” gunmen.---READ-->>
- Imperialism and super exploitationMichael Roberts reviews John Smith’s Imperialism in the 21st Century. This “powerful and searing indictment of the exploitation of billions of people,” argues that “the huge low wage proletariat that has emerged in the last 30 years is the key to the profits of imperialism.”---READ-->>
- The Socialist Alternative: Real Human DevelopmentCuban scholar Olga Fernández Ríos at the launch of the Cuban edition of Michael Lebowitz’ book. “Its publication contributes positively to the defense of the socialist ideal and to the necessary contemporary debate around the construction of the new society.”---READ-->>
- Varieties of anti-capitalist economicsIn “Economics After Capitalism: A Guide to the Ruins & a Road to the Future,” ecosocialist Derek Wall offers an insightful overview of non-orthodox economics, from Social Credit to Marxism to Elinor Ostrom.---READ-->>
- Book Announcement: ‘Facing the Anthropocene’“Bridging the gap between Earth System science and ecological Marxism, Ian Angus examines not only the latest scientific findings about the causes and consequences of the Anthropocene, but also the social and economic trends that underlie the crisis.”---READ-->>
- Greenhouse Gas Escalation, IllustratedWe don’t need models or computer projections. As these graphics show, we already face a planetary emergency, and it is getting more serious every day.---READ-->>
- Cowspiracy: stampeding in the wrong directionBy focusing on veganism to the exclusion of all else, Cowspiracy implies that anyone who eats meat isn’t a ‘proper’ environmentalist. This is deeply offensive and elitist, and it harms the movement we need to build.---READ-->>
- Specter of geoengineering haunts Paris climate dealTo avoid challenging the fossil fuel profiteers, the Paris negotiators bet on untested and dangerous geoengineering technologies.---READ-->>
- Flint’s poisoned water and capital’s second contradictionThe politicians who poisoned the water supply in Flint are as bad as they come, but it’s the system they serve that makes such disasters inevitable.---READ-->>
- 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-->>