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- 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-->>
- Most vulnerable nations form climate action coalition‘Vulnerable 20’ communique: “Climate change is the defining challenge of our time. Overcoming it is a matter of survival for people on all continents and vulnerable communities everywhere.”---READ-->>
- Fantasy technology won’t stop climate changeClimate negotiators are promising ‘negative emissions’ using a risky and unproven technology called BECSS. It’s the wrong way to go.---READ-->>
- Volkswagen chose profit over the planetThe auto giant only did what the capitalist system demands of every corporation: it put profit first, no matter who got hurt---READ-->>
- FI Statement: Mobilize for change at COP21Fourth International: There is no choice between climate emergency and social justice; it is one and the same struggle.---READ-->>
- Anthropocene heat, part 3: A one way street to climate hell“The effects of climate change are being felt today, and future projections represent a potentially catastrophic risk to human health.”---READ-->>
- Creative self-destruction: Climate crisis and ‘green capitalism’Large corporations get away with ecocidal behaviour by obscuring the link between endless economic growth and environmental destruction---READ-->>
- Australia: United mass action can win climate fightAustralian anti-fracking activist calls for ‘movement of movements’ around concrete demands in November 29 People’s Climate Marches---READ-->>
- Harry Magdoff on the environment capitalism makesBefore the word ‘ecosocialism’ existed, the co-editor of Monthly Review was discussing ecosocialist ideas.---READ-->>
- In Paris, just say ‘no’ to COP21Climate negotiations resume soon in Paris. John Foran argues that the best outcome of COP21 may be no agreement at all.---READ-->>