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- Barry Commoner and the Great AccelerationLong before today’s scientists accepted the idea, socialist-ecologist Barry Commoner argued that there had been a qualitative change in humanity’s relationship with nature in the years following World War II … and explained why it happened and what it means for our future.---READ-->>
- Evo Morales: ‘Our liberation is for the whole of humanity’‘Only we can save the source of life and society: Mother Earth. Our planet is under a death threat from predatory and insane capitalism. Another world is not only possible, it is indispensable, because otherwise, no world will be possible.’---READ-->>
- Progressive extractivism: hope or dystopia?Continuing the debate on extractivism in Latin America. Don Fitz says it highlights different views on what type of society we are working to build and how we plan to get there.---READ-->>
- Workers of the World, Divest! (Or lose everything!)The movement to divest from fossil fuels is strong and growing. It’s time for the labor movement to join that process.---READ-->>
- Poorest nations: Time is running out for climate agreementLeast Developed Countries warn that if substantial progress isn’t made this year, the Paris climate meeting is likely to be another failure---READ-->>
- Stopping global warming: Three steps and a visionVideo: Jonathan Neale, author of Stop Global Warming: Change the World, explains what needs to be done to stop emissions — and why a socialist vision is the essential first step---READ-->>
- Early warning 2: Commoner on global warming50 years ago, Barry Commoner explained why rising levels of carbon dioxide in the air could lead to disaster---READ-->>
- Early warning: Bookchin on global warmingBookchin got it right 50 years ago, long before anyone else noticed.---READ-->>
- Two views of ‘extractivism’ and ‘buen vivir’The debate continues: Is ‘Buen vivir’ an effective and just development alternative to mining and resource extraction industries in Latin America?---READ-->>
- Antarctica’s accelerating ice collapseThe sea-level rise of 10 to 16 feet will come in decades, rather than centuries. It will submerge nearly every port city in the world.---READ-->>
- Fracking song, 2‘My Water’s On Fire Tonight’ is a product of Studio 20 NYU, in collaboration with Pro Publica: Journalism in the Public Interest.---READ-->>
- The dangerous myths of ‘anti-extractivism’Environmentalists who oppose ‘extractivism’ on principle are oversimplifying the complex issues faced by the peoples and governments of Latin America today---READ-->>
- Mass murder in a Turkish coal mineOver 300 miners have been killed by a system that values fossil fuels and profits above the lives of those who are paid poverty-level wages to dig for coal---READ-->>
- A terrifying diagnosisWhat’s ailing the earth?---READ-->>
- Debate on exit strategy: Hansen’s program is more than a carbon taxIan Angus replies to Anders Ekeland: Ecosocialists must understand and build on James Hansen’s entire program, not reduce it to a single policy that isn’t suitable for building mass movements.---READ-->>
- Why socialists must act against climate changeJonathan Neale says climate change isn’t just a moral issue, it’s a matter of life and death … and socialists can play an important role in stopping it.---READ-->>
- The politics of food and povertyThe global food crisis is tightly connected to poverty, climate change, ecological destruction, migrant workers, imperialism, health and the super-exploitation of workers.---READ-->>
- Population pulp fiction: A failed prophecy from 1970From the archives: A socialist review of a 1970 novel that predicted an overpopulation apocalypse in two decades---READ-->>
- Debate on exit strategy: Should ecosocialists support carbon taxes?Has the left been unduly critical of carbon taxes as a means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions? Is James Hansen’s “fee and dividend” scheme the kind of practical and concrete plan we should endorse and promote?---READ-->>
- Why markets can’t fix the climate crisisVideo from Australia: Socialist Alliance member Gemma Weedall speaking at the Marxism 2014 conference.---READ-->>