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- Climate disasters displaced 32 million people in 2012Over 32 million people were forced to flee their homes in 2012 by climate- and weather-related events---READ-->>
- Canada’s seven-year war on scienceIf anyone doubts the intellectual bankruptcy and anti-science bias of Canada’s government, show them this---READ-->>
- The Wealth of Commons: A World Beyond Market and StateBook review: Far from being a ‘tragedy’ the commons offers genuine solutions to climate change and other environmental problems---READ-->>
- Nepalese workers poisoned by local and global pollutionDriven from their farms by climate change, brickworkers near luxurious Kathmandu are dying slowly in an air pollution disaster zone---READ-->>
- Video: Oil Sands Reality CheckAn important new resource for tar sands campaigners---READ-->>
- To save the earth, nationalize the energy industryEnergy is far too important to our future to be left in the hands of corporate directors and investment bankers.---READ-->>
- The Wrath of Capital: Neoliberalism and Climate Change PoliticsBook review: Why individual action and lifestyle politics offer no solutions to an environmental crisis driven by global capitalism---READ-->>
- The world is rich. The rich are the problem.There’s no shortage of food, no shortage of wealth to solve social crises. The problem is a system that enriches a few and starves multitudes.---READ-->>
- Is there a scientific consensus on global warming? You bet!The number of scientists who disagree is “vanishingly small”---READ-->>
- Québec ecosocialists adopt basis for unity and actionUpdate on the Réseau écosocialiste, and a translation of its founding statement. “Ecosocialism advocates the distribution of wealth, ecological and democratic planning, and popular sovereignty.”---READ-->>
- More videos from NYC Ecosocialism ConferenceSeven more videos of talks at the Ecosocialism conference in New York City, April 20, have been posted on the Ecosocialist Contingent website.---READ-->>
- Needed: An ecosocialist cosmovisionIt isn’t enough to replace capitalism’s destructive social and economic relations. We must develop new ways of thinking about humanity and nature.---READ-->>
- Food fights against austerityDisparate struggles in desperate times: how workers and farmers in Spain, New York and Greece are challenging neoliberal austerity---READ-->>
- Climate conferences set in England and AustraliaOn opposite sides of the world, two important activist conferences---READ-->>
- Mad Science: The Nuclear Power ExperimentSome environmentalists champion nuclear power as an answer to global warming. An important new book argues that the dangers far outweigh any benefits.---READ-->>
- Online now: Talks at NYC Ecosocialism ConferenceRecordings of ecosocialist talks: Environmental justice; Indigenous rights; Lessons from Sandy; Tar sands & fracking; Fossil fuel divestment; Market approaches; Green left history---READ-->>
- Why unionists must build the climate change fightNeeded: thousands of union members in their union hats and coats and shirts, banners and flags flying, at every demonstration to save the climate---READ-->>
- Tar sands: Alberta puts a fox in charge of the henhouseOil company lobbyist named chair of Energy Regulator; Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation demands resignation---READ-->>
- Climate inaction, illustratedWhen in doubt, mumble …---READ-->>
- Fracking waste is too toxic for hazardous waste dumpOn April 19, a truck delivering waste from a fracking operation in Greene County, Pennsylvania, was quarantined after being rejected by a hazardous waste landfill as too dangerous.---READ-->>