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- Is degrowth against workers’ interests?Critics say working people will never support degrowth. They don’t understand workers or degrowth.---READ-->>
- Worldwide, 41% of amphibians are threatened with extinctionClimate change, disease and habitat destruction are major factors in population decline---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, October 2023New books for reds and greens. Cuba’s degrowth; Viruses; Bluefin tuna; Small farm solutions; Capitalism and slavery and poverty---READ-->>
- Carbon offsets don’t work, and that’s not newsIt’s been clear from the beginning that the market for ’emissions offsets’ is based on lies.---READ-->>
- Waterborne poison from metal mines affects over 23 million peopleHuge areas contaminated by lead, zinc, copper, arsenic and other toxic wastes---READ-->>
- Degrowth and ecosocialism – a replyThe critical issue is not today’s elections, but preparing for tomorrow’s mass movements---READ-->>
- The Earth System has passed six of nine planetary boundariesDwindling resilience brings the planet ever closer to catastrophic tipping points---READ-->>
- Would degrowth socialism mean forced austerity?Socialism means qualitatively better lives, not bigger piles of the same stuff capitalism makes---READ-->>
- Planet Wreckers: Just 20 countries risk locking in global climate chaosTo prevent catastrophe, these countries must stop new extraction projects now---READ-->>
- Record heatwaves are worsening air quality, harming human healthClimate change and air pollution cannot be treated separately---READ-->>
- ‘There is nothing green about economic growth in high-income countries’Lancet study finds ‘green growth’ policies fall far short of what’s needed to prevent dangerous change---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, September 2023Water, farming, nuclear tests, copper mining, new biology, and sugar. Six books to help understand and change the world---READ-->>
- ‘A powerful moral and social message that is still relevant today’British newspaper reviews ‘The War Against the Commons’---READ-->>
- High emissions will subject over 1 billion cows to lethal heat stressExpanded cattle farming is creating deadly conditions for the animals---READ-->>
- Forest carbon offsets, supposedly worth billions, have no climate benefitREDD projects combine false emission claims, worthless credits and human rights abuses---READ-->>
- Blowing up pipelines won’t save the planetSabotage may be exciting and personally satisfying … but it can’t defeat capital’s colossal power---READ-->>
- British anticapitalist group calls for broad ecosocialist movementAppeal proposes conference to discuss strategy and turn theory into action---READ-->>
- Counter-offensive: Fossil fuel giants boost global productionAfter a brief pause, Big Oil has resumed heavy spending on new wells and infrastructure---READ-->>
- July temperatures break multiple global recordsJune was the hottest month on record … until July---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf: August 2023New books for reds and greens. Exporting emissions; How weather works; Saving the birds; Bottled water; Cell science; Phosphorous in life and death---READ-->>