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- Petrolify. Is this medicine right for you?It’s made from all natural ingredients, but watch for side effects …---READ-->>
- Can we save the planet by shopping less?Many greens blame consumer choices and lifestyles for the global crisis. This blames the victims, while ignoring the real environmental criminals.---READ-->>
- Greenhouse gas emissions hit record highIn 2013 carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increased at the fastest rate for nearly 30 years, reaching 142% of the pre-industrial era.---READ-->>
- The global burden of industrial livestock‘The Ecological Footprint’ shows that industrial meat production increases inequality, overuses land and water, and contributes massively to global warming. Tony Weis The Ecological Hoofprint: The global burden of industrial livestock (Zed Books, 2013) reviewed by Gabriel Levy The rapid expansion of world meat consumption is (1) an indication that more people are getting better fed, right? This “nutritional transition” ...---READ-->>
- The great ‘poverty reduction’ hoaxGlobal poverty is much worse than the UN’s spin doctored story. The global poverty headcount has increased, and the triumphalist narrative is a lie.---READ-->>
- Louisiana is drowning, quicklyOne of the greatest environmental and economic disasters in U.S. history is rushing toward a catastrophic conclusion. Louisiana is sinking, fast.---READ-->>
- Pacific climate warriors: ‘We are not drowning, we are fighting!’Koreti Mavaega Tiumalu: “We don’t see ourselves as victims. We are warriors. We will stand up peacefully from the Pacific to the adversary, which is the fossil fuel industry.”---READ-->>
- 21st century socialism requires a new culture on the leftMarta Harnecker: We need a pluralist and tolerant culture that puts first what unites us and leaves as secondary what divides us; that promotes a unity based on solidarity, humanism, respect for differences, defense of nature, and rejection of profit and the market.---READ-->>
- The climate movement must stand with Ferguson“I can’t stress enough how important it is for me, as a black climate justice advocate, as well as for my people, to see the climate movement show solidarity right now with the people of Ferguson and with black communities around the country striving for justice.”---READ-->>
- Localism? I don’t buy itStan Cox argues that localist movements fail because they treat a symptom of capitalism, the crippling of local communities, as if it’s the disease.---READ-->>
- Responding to capitalist disaster, in 1914 and todayWorld War I began 100 years ago. Today’s ecosocialist movement has much to learn from the revolutionaries who campaigned to stop that catastrophe.---READ-->>
- Bolivian reality versus the ‘extractivism’ debateSome left critics of progressive governments in South America point to differences between ‘pro-extractivists’ and ‘anti-extractivists.’ Federico Fuentes says that framework hinders real understanding of the issues.---READ-->>
- Chiapas residents: Stop the San Cristóbal-Palenque highwayIndigenous communities in Chiapas, Mexico, oppose government plans to drive a tourism highway through their lands---READ-->>
- In Ohio, don’t drink the water!Nearly half a million people have been told that their tap water is unsafe to drink, poisoned by industrial farming, sewage, storm water runoff and industrial pollution.---READ-->>
- The Freetown Declaration on land grabbing in Sierra LeoneSierra Leone has experienced a mass influx of foreign investors acquiring large tracts of arable and forest land for agriculture and mining---READ-->>
- The real environmental problem is catastrophe, not ‘catastrophism’Ian Angus replies to Sam Gindin: If we agree with Marx, then supporting and building the real environmental movement, while finding ways to advance ecosocialist ideas within it, will take precedence over worries about imperfect statements some participants might make.---READ-->>
- An activist comments on the ‘eco-castastrophism’ debateTerry Moore says that all movements and activists exaggerate or downplay sometimes. Only open and fact-based debate can help us avoid mistakes.---READ-->>
- Environmental catastrophism: Sam Gindin respondsReplying to Ian Angus, Sam Gindin says the real issue is how to build mass support for replacing capitalism with an environmentally-sensitive socialism.---READ-->>
- From direct action to organization, lessons from Canada’s Line 9 sit-insProtests, marches and direct actions are vitally important, but to win our goals we need to build mass, democratic political organizations---READ-->>
- All out for climate protests in New York, Sept. 19-23!Mass actions planned at UN meeting: Join the ecosocialist contingent and help build a broad coalition to fight climate change and environmental degradation.---READ-->>