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- Syriza: A left-green government in Greece?Syriza’s colors are red and purple and green, identifying it as socialist, feminist and environmentalist. Its platform includes all the key demands of the Green Party.---READ-->>
- SCNCC: Convention, Jan. 31-Feb. 1System Change Not Climate Change! There’s still time to register, particularly if you would like to participate by phone/Internet.---READ-->>
- 400 parts per million and class struggleWhile no one has a positive interest in destroying the environment, the capitalist class has an interest in blocking the measures that could protect it. Recognizing this class dimension to the environmental struggle is vital.---READ-->>
- South African pipeline spill exposes eco-racismThe Durban diesel disaster polluted rich whites’ gardens … but the cause is systematic discrimination against the black majority.---READ-->>
- Naomi Klein on racism and climate changeThe reality of an economic order built on white supremacy is the whispered subtext of our entire response to the climate crisis, and it badly needs to be dragged into the light.---READ-->>
- Peoples Climate Summit speaks for the exploited and oppressedOutside the scandalous UN meeting in Lima, an unofficial international assembly met to plan global resistance to capitalism and fight for a model of life in harmony with Nature and Mother Earth.---READ-->>
- Danger zone: Earth crosses four planetary boundariesNew research finds biodiversity loss, fertilizer use, climate change and land use have all entered danger zones where rapid environmental decline becomes possible.---READ-->>
- Social justice is the only solution to global warmingForget the UN: South African activist says only an alliance from below, linking unions and social justice movements, can stop capital from destroying planetary life.---READ-->>
- Visualizing the global water crisisMassive transformation of the global water cycle is threatening billions of people around the world. This 3-minute film charts the scale of change.---READ-->>
- New ebook shows capitalism and a healthy planet are incompatibleIf this book arms people with the information they need to convince more people to join the struggle to save the earth from capitalism, then it will have done its job.---READ-->>
- Marx and Nature: A Red and Green PerspectiveEssential reading for ecosocialists. Paul Burkett shows that humanity’s relationship to nature is central to Marx’s critique of capitalism and vision of socialism.---READ-->>
- Unsustainable growth can’t be wished awayWhen it comes to explaining destructive growth, many green writers confuse cause and effect---READ-->>
- Oil price panic and climate justiceThe fall in oil prices exposes the absurdity of tar sands economics and the need for green job alternatives to both the economic and the climate crisis.---READ-->>
- Swiss ‘environmental’ anti-immigrant plan defeatedIn referendum, 74% of Swiss voters reject eco-nationalist call for immigration limits and third world population control---READ-->>
- Preface to the French edition of ‘Too Many People?’“A remarkably well-documented book that debunks this overpopulation myth.” —Serge Mongeau’s preface to Une planète trop peuplée?, in English and French---READ-->>
- After Lima fiasco, Bolivia plans global assembly to fight climate changeALBA backs Bolivian call for international assembly of social movements in 2015; Evo Morales urges “a climate agreement for life, not business and capitalist commercialism”---READ-->>
- Top Climate & Capitalism articles for 2014These Climate & Capitalism articles, both new and old, attracted the most readers in 2014 …---READ-->>
- Capitalist efficiency, illustratedBehold, the efficiency of capitalism …---READ-->>
- Lima agreement fails humanity and the earthThe result of the Lima conference was yet another decision that weakens international climate rules, fails the planet, and threatens humanity’s future.---READ-->>
- ‘Corporate Conquistadors’ versus climate and humanityThe giant corporations responsible for the climate crisis are also reaping immense profits from the destruction they cause in the poorest communities---READ-->>