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- Conference to examine capital and climate changeCall For Papers: Climate change stream at the Eleventh London Historical Materialism Conference, November 2014---READ-->>
- Will capitalism’s death wish kill us all?Global warming is driving us towards a precipice, but capitalism just keeps on with business as usual. Why won’t our rulers slam on the brakes?---READ-->>
- Confronting Injustice: A must-read book for today’s activistsIan Angus reviews an essential book, written by an activist for activists, a practical contribution to building real struggles for a better world. “Confronting Injustice is a powerful call for collective action against the social causes of poverty and climate change.”---READ-->>
- Population control group uses Earth Day to attack immigrantsPopulation controllers show their bigotry, again---READ-->>
- Air pollution hits people of color hardestStudy shows that non-white people in U.S. inhale 38 percent higher levels of air pollution than whites---READ-->>
- Socialism is not possible on a ruined planetSocialist scientist: Radicals who deny the threat of environmental catastrophe are dead wrong. Stopping capitalist ecocide must be a central goal for the left the 21st century.---READ-->>
- Quoting Bookchin“The assumption that what currently exists ….”---READ-->>
- Avoiding the capitalist apocalypseIn ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century,’ Thomas Piketty says capitalism has avoided a Marxist apocalypse. This misrepresents Marxism, and ignores the ever-increasing degradation and destruction of life on Earth, and the looming threat of climate disaster.---READ-->>
- Tutu: We must boycott the fossil fuel industryArchbishop and Nobel Prize winner Desmond Tutu calls for international action against companies that are destroying our planet’s future.---READ-->>
- China: Mass protests challenge pollutersResistance to rapid industrialization and encroachment by poisonous industries has led to pitched battles between residents and police in many cities.---READ-->>
- Climate crisis: The rich don’t want solutionsThe latest IPCC report inadvertently shows that corporations and their governments are determined to avoid protecting the poor from climate change.---READ-->>
- A Marxist view of ecology and human historySimon Butler says Martin Empson’s ‘Land and Labour’ is a very readable Marxist history of humanity’s relationship with the rest of nature and an important contribution to the movement for ecosocialism---READ-->>
- World peasant movement: Solidarity with Venezuela!Via Campesina condemns right wing efforts to destabilize Venezuela and reverse the immense achievements of the Bolivarian Revolution.---READ-->>
- What did that ‘NASA-funded collapse study’ really say?A critical evaluation of a widely reported study that supposedly proves that only social equality and a rapid shift to renewables can prevent the collapse of western civilization.---READ-->>
- IPCC: The world is not ready for climate changeNow on the C&C website: IPCC report on impacts and risks of climate change. “The world is ill-prepared for risks from a changing climate.”---READ-->>
- 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-->>