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- Wall Street to Earth: ‘We don’t mind and you don’t matter’The stock market’s non-response to the IPCC report on climate change exposes the inability of capitalists to address or even worry about the climate crisis---READ-->>
- IPCC report: Human-caused warming is ‘unequivocal’C&C will have much more to say about this important report. For now, here’s a quick summary of the key messages.---READ-->>
- Hundreds attend Los Angeles ecosocialist conferenceWell-attended meeting marks a step forward for the growing coalition for System Change Not Climate Change---READ-->>
- TransCanada pipeline plan threatens drinking waterIan Angus: “Piping tar sands crude over an aquifer rated ‘Highly Vulnerable’ is a reckless plan that threatens the water we all need.”---READ-->>
- A declaration on climate justice“We demand a world where our children and future generations are assured of fair and just opportunities for social stability, employment, a healthy planet and prosperity.”---READ-->>
- Strategy and tactics in the environmental movementA recent interview with Naomi Klein has sparked a furious debate amongst activists on the right and left of the North American environmental movement. Chris Williams examines the critical issues involved, and their implications for the future of the movement as a whole, and of its growing ecosocialist wing in particular.---READ-->>
- Who really benefits from sweatshops?Exposing the myth that ‘consumer demand for low prices’ causes dangerous working conditions in third world factories---READ-->>
- TransCanada buys another favorable pipeline reportWhy no one should believe Deloitte’s report on the latest tar sands pipeline plan---READ-->>
- Video: Robert Redford condemns tar sands developmentVideo: Robert Redford explains why the tar sands are good for oil companies but deadly for the Earth.---READ-->>
- Interview with Fred MagdoffAudio: The co-author of “What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism” explains the root causes of today’s global climate crisis---READ-->>
- Another pipeline disaster: Molasses killsThink about this the next time someone tells you pipelines are safe …---READ-->>
- Tar Sands or Oil Sands? Behind the petro-spinThe term oil sands was invented by public relations flacks, to divert attention from just how dirty the Alberta bitumen deposits are. Andrew Nikiforuk explains why tar sands is the right name.---READ-->>
- The climate denial machine vs. climate scienceDealing in Doubt: how fossil fuel interests use the tobacco industry’s playbook to manufacture disinformation designed to confuse the public and stifle action to address climate change.---READ-->>
- A framework for uniting ecosocialists in actionAn appropriate and principled framework for bringing all varieties of ecosocialists together in action against capitalist ecocide and for a just world.---READ-->>
- Australia: populationists use racism to split green votePopulationist groups are trying to split Australian environmentalism with a coordinated anti-immigrant campaign---READ-->>
- North Grenville’s powerful pipeline postersHow to promote a pipeline protest---READ-->>
- Naomi Klein: Climate change, unions, and a united left agenda“This is a green labour revolution I’m talking about. An epic vision of healing our country from the ravages of the last 30 years of neoliberalism and healing the planet in the process.”---READ-->>
- Marxism and the ecological revolutionAre Marx’s views on ecology relevant to today’s environmental crises?---READ-->>
- The myth of ‘environmental catastrophism’A recent book claims activists who warn that the world faces environmental catastrophe are doing more harm than good. A new essay by Ian Angus explains why that claim is wrong.---READ-->>
- Carcinogen found in nearly 100 shampoos and soapsA new study from the Center for Environmental Health finds cocamide diethanolamine in major brand and private label products sold by major retailers across the U.S.---READ-->>