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- 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-->>
- Global warming stopped? Not in the real world.Remember all those articles that claimed global warming has stopped? Here’s proof that those were anti-scientific fantasies.---READ-->>
- How green is the Green New Deal?The Green New Deal depends on continued growth. Our focus must be on finding ways to decrease production while increasing humanity’s quality of life---READ-->>
- Trying to make environmentalism = population controlGabriel Levy reviews Paul Sabin’s book, “The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth’s Future.”---READ-->>
- Once again, on ‘environmental catastrophism’: A reply to Sam Gindin.Ian Angus says ‘environmental catastrophism’ is a red herring. The real issue is whether socialists should give high priority to resisting capitalism’s war on the planet.---READ-->>
- On environment, Sam Gindin gets it wrongVancouver ecosocialist Brad Hornick responds to Sam Gindin’s dismissal of “environmental catastrophism”---READ-->>