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- Air pollution kills 7 million a yearWorld Health Organization names the biggest environmental health threat: over 12% of all deaths are caused by the air we breathe---READ-->>
- Climate change drove extreme weather in 2013World Meteorological Organization confirms: there is no standstill in global warming. Thirteen of the fourteen warmest years on record have all occurred in the 21st century, and each of the last three decades has been warmer than the previous one.---READ-->>
- Plastic PlagueBook Review: ‘Plastic Ocean’ is an important contribution to broad awareness of the ever-growing conflict between our systems of production and the circle of life.---READ-->>
- Wagering on Earth’s futureIan Angus reviews ‘The Bet,’ an in-depth account of the overhyped and pointless wager between populationist Paul Ehrlich and libertarian Julian Simon.---READ-->>
- The Myths of ‘Green Capitalism’Brian Tokar: A system based on the accumulation of capital without restraint will require unsustainable growth, however cleverly we measure our ecological footprint.---READ-->>
- Kenya evicts Indigenous people for forest offset scamThe UN and World Bank are supporting the forced expulsion of the Sengwer people from their ancestral lands. The land-grabbing REDD scheme must be stopped.---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist online discussion group launchedLooking for an international email forum devoted to ecosocialist ideas and activities?---READ-->>
- Debate: Two tactics in the fight against climate changeShould climate activists limit their demands to what’s possible under capitalism? Nick Davenport responds to Robin Hahnel’s support of carbon trading.---READ-->>
- Again and again, capitalism fouls things upBarry Sheppard: Toxic spills in two West Virginia rivers show that the capitalist system itself is an enemy of the natural environment humanity depends on---READ-->>
- Bolivian VP to European Left: Fight on!“What we need is not a Europe that watches from a distance what is happening in far off places of the world but a Europe that lights up again the destiny of the continent and of the world.”---READ-->>
- White House on Keystone XL: Wrong questions, wrong answersHow can Obama suggest that the test for approving the XL pipeline is whether it accelerates our ride to climate hell, death, and disaster?---READ-->>
- How the U.S. exports global warmingWhile Obama talks of a clean, green future, America’s oil and coal corporations are racing to position the country as the planet’s top dirty-energy dealer.---READ-->>
- The contradictions and limits of localismCan co-ops and transition towns transform the world? The author of No Local explains why local counter-institutions won’t lead to revolutionary change.---READ-->>
- Green must be more than organic food and driving a PriusArtist Marc Bamuthi Joseph says that if we don’t connect it to race and class, then environmentalism will never win a hearing from people who face racism and poverty every day.---READ-->>
- Reinvent transport for reduced emissions and more jobsCutting greenhouse gas emissions will throw millions of people out of work! That claim has made many working people reluctant to support action to slow climate change. But is it true?---READ-->>
- Ecosocialism Canada: A new activist resourceEcosocialism Canada has a new editor, a new design, a new web address, and a renewed focus on campaigning against capitalist ecocide in Canada. You can help make it an essential movement resource.---READ-->>
- Corporation polluters make ‘sustainable’ a dirty wordA list of the world’s 100 ‘most sustainable companies’ is packed with firms that profit from trashing the planet and are driving us toward climate disaster.---READ-->>
- A new stage for ecosocialist unity and actionSystem Change Not Climate Change adopts plans to reach out to other groups, strengthen environmental activism, and work with capitalism’s victims---READ-->>
- Global inequality, illustrated, described, explained“The more the capitalist has accumulated, the more is he able to accumulate.”---READ-->>
- Fracking CapitalismDerek Wall reviews an ‘essential resource for everyone engaged in fighting the fracking menace’---READ-->>