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- Global warming: the ‘slowdown’ that never happenedNew scientific analysis shows that the rate of global warming has continued without pause. The ‘hiatus’ simply didn’t happen.---READ-->>
- How to trivialize the new epochClive Hamilton sums up four misinterpretations that minimize the threat that the Anthropocene poses to humanity and the Earth---READ-->>
- Does Anthropocene science blame all humanity?Ian Angus says the charge that Anthropocene scholars blame all of humanity for the actions of a small minority simply doesn’t hold water.---READ-->>
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- Trade unions organize for Paris climate talks“Strong social forces with the ability to change the course of society do not suddenly erupt at the global level. They have to be built from below.”---READ-->>
- Hijacking the AnthropoceneHow the anti-green ‘Breakthrough Institute’ misrepresents science to advance a technocratic agenda and undermine grassroots environmentalism---READ-->>
- Govts give fossil fuel companies $10 Million a minuteSo much for “private enterprise” – the IMF says energy companies receive $5.3 trillion a year in subsidies from governments worldwide---READ-->>
- ITUC calls global union climate summit200 trade unionists from around the world will meet in Paris in September to plan action against climate change---READ-->>
- Naomi Klein: To fight climate change we must fight capitalismInterview with the author of This Changes Everything: “If you can marry an economic justice agenda with climate action, people will fight for that future”---READ-->>
- 400 ppm – an eco-political music videoFrom Canadian musician/activist Bill Carroll, a very blue song and video that explains climate crisis and climate justice in three minutes.---READ-->>
- Corporate greenwashing on Earth Day in New YorkOnce again, corporate environment-killers presented a festival of greenwashing, where shopping was promoted as a painless way to save the world.---READ-->>
- Rural activists in Latin America call for socialismFinal declaration of the 6th Congress of countryside organizations affiliated with La Via Campesina, held April 10-16, 2015, in Buenos Aires, Argentina---READ-->>
- What strategy for an ecological ‘great transition’?John Bellamy Foster reviews Johan Rockström’s call for a ‘Great Transition’ that combines the goal of prosperity for all with a stable and resilient planet, based on nine critical planetary boundaries.---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist bookshelf, April 2015Grabbing back … A world to build … The anthropology of utopia … We make our own history … Red skin, white masks … Dodging extinction … Plebeian power---READ-->>
- Stop, Thief! The commons, enclosures, and resistanceBook Review: Peter Linebaugh documents the struggle for the commons, from medieval times to today, replete with tales of heroic resistance and murderous repression---READ-->>
- Did early humans wipe out most large mammals?In ‘The Sixth Extinction,’ Elizabeth Kolbert accepts the claim that overkill by early humans led to the extinction of many large mammals. That charge is politically motivated and there is little evidence to support it.---READ-->>
- The global warming ‘pause’ is politics, not scienceThe so-called ‘pause’ in the rate of global warming is false and distracting. It is a politically engineered excuse to avoid taking action on climate change.---READ-->>
- Naomi Klein, Jodi Dean and ‘Green Keynesianism’Leftist critics of Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything need to answer a question she posed: History is knocking at your door: will you answer?---READ-->>
- The Sixth Extinction: Are humans the enemy?Book Review: Elizabeth Kolbert’s best-selling account of mass extinctions blames human nature, ignoring the crucial role of capitalism’s relentless search for growth and accumulation.---READ-->>
- On ’60 Minutes’, black Africans are invisible and voicelessBiased ‘news’ coverage of wildlife and the Ebola crisis illustrates the worst prejudices of modern American journalism on the subject of Africa.---READ-->>