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- 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-->>
- Net Zero is not Zero: The G7’s decarbonization hoaxThe G7 ‘plan’ is an excuse to keep pumping oil while relying on hypothetical, unproven or nonexistent technologies to save us---READ-->>
- Full text of pope’s statement on environment and exploitation“The human environment and the natural environment deteriorate together; we cannot adequately combat environmental degradation unless we attend to causes related to human and social degradation.”---READ-->>
- Avaaz and Greenpeace spread G7 climate illusionsThe G7 Summit set a political trap for climate activists — and some NGOs fell right in, declaring a victory that didn’t happen.---READ-->>
- Green capitalism: the god that failedBook review: “Economic expansion is unavoidable under capitalism, and destruction of the planet is the inexorable result.”---READ-->>
- Karl Marx: The first ecological sociologist?Participants in this graduate seminar “were united in expressing surprise at just how prescient Marx’s observations regarding human-environment relations were.”---READ-->>
- Peru: International labor solidarity aids fight against polluting, anti-union copper mineWhat does it take to stop a transnational corporate giant in its tracks when it threatens workers, farmers and communities? The people of Arequipa, Peru have an answer.---READ-->>
- Swiss newspaper reviews French edition of ‘Too Many People?’Largest French daily in Switzerland praises ‘Une planète trop peuplée’ by Ian Angus and Simon Butler---READ-->>
- Ernest Mandel on productivism, limits to growth, and socialist human developmentA forgotten comment by a noted Marxist, on our collective responsibility to preserve natural wealth so that future generations can survive and flower.---READ-->>