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- Foodies and farmworkers: Allies or enemies?Fred Magdoff reviews Labor and the Locavore. Can the ‘buy local food’ movement support both sustainable farming and justice for farmworkers?---READ-->>
- Climate scientists: Obama’s emission rules are too little, too lateA year ago, two of the UK’s top climate scientists reviewed the regulations that Obama has now promised to impose. They weren’t impressed …---READ-->>
- There’s no such thing as cheap fossil fuelAustralia’s coal industry is propped up by huge government subsidies, despite the downturn in the global coal trade and a divestment campaign.---READ-->>
- Why are critics and media silent on Bolivia’s green gains?Opponents of the Morales government deliberately misrepresent its strong environmental track record, to advance their own political goals---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, July 2015The socialist imperative … Debriefing Elsipitog … The Mayan forest garden … Lifeblood … Endgame … Waking the giant … We have never been neoliberal---READ-->>
- James Hansen: Sea level disaster ahead, but when?It’s time to stop waffling and say that the evidence is pretty strong … multi-meter sea level rise is an issue for today, not for the next millennium---READ-->>
- The Hurricane Katrina Pain Index: 10 Years LaterA decade after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, despite billions of dollars in ‘aid,’ the poor and people of color are still paying the price---READ-->>
- Green consumerism is no solutionThe entire premise that justice and sustainability can be purchased in the marketplace is patently absurd.---READ-->>
- Follow-up: Did early humans cause extinction of mammoths?New research identifies periods of short, rapid warming as a key factor in the Ice Age extinction of megafauna.---READ-->>
- Ecological crisis and the tragedy of the commodityForget the ‘tragedy of the commons.’ The real cause of environmental crises is a system that commodifies nature and values profit above life itself---READ-->>
- First Nations: Enbridge pipeline claim is ‘out of touch with reality’B.C. Chiefs react with anger and disbelief to Enbridge claim that most impacted Aboriginal groups support its Northern Gateway pipeline and tanker plan---READ-->>
- U.S. veterans: Dismantle the anti-climate, pro-war economyFormer soldiers challenge the war on our planet at Minnesota conference addressed by leading climate scientist James Hansen---READ-->>
- Science confirms: 2014 was the hottest year on recordPeer-reviewed study of multiple independent datasets shows land and ocean temperature, sea levels and greenhouse gases all set new records---READ-->>
- No, We are not headed for a little ice ageRecent headlines from supposedly serious newspapers and websites: Solar Cycle Study Says Earth Will Experience ‘Mini Ice Age’ in 15 Years. ‘Mini ice age’ coming in next fifteen years, new model of the Sun’s cycle shows Scientists warn mini ice age could be 15 years away Sounds scary, but don’t rush out and buy a parka. As Gregory Pijanowski explains ...---READ-->>
- NASA: More emissions = More megadroughtsRising greenhouse gas emissions mean U.S. droughts during the last half of this century could be drier and longer than any in the last 1,000 years---READ-->>
- An ecosocialist at the ‘Our Common Future’ conferenceReport from Paris: Thousands of scientists meet to review what we now know about climate change science and what can be done to prevent catastrophe---READ-->>
- U.S. government underestimates flood risks by up to five feetHigh-water marks in the midwest U.S. are inching higher as global warming makes megafloods more common---READ-->>
- Will climate chaos reign in the Anthropocene?“Far from being self-stabilizing, the Earth’s climate system is an ornery beast which overreacts even to small nudges.”---READ-->>
- Naomi Klein, Vatican unite to fight climate changeNaomi Klein and Cardinal Peter Turkson are set to head a prominent climate change conference at the Vatican.---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist bookshelf, June 2015Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis … Why We Can’t Afford the Rich … Big World, Small Planet … Unprecedented … Collision Course … Molecular Red---READ-->>