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- Capitalism versus Planet Earth – an irreconcilable conflictBook excerpt: “A stark choice faces humanity: save the planet and ditch capitalism or save capitalism and ditch the planet”---READ-->>
- We cannot shop our way to food justiceThe food system is a tool for corporate profits, but it can also be an entry point for recognition of food access as a human right---READ-->>
- Nature and the economy: Marxism in an American labyrinthThe supposed conflict between environmentalism and Marxism is actually a clash between both of those and a workerist or productivist distortion of what Marx really wrote---READ-->>
- Washington: 50,000 protest Keystone XL pipelineVideo coverage from Democracy Now, Plus: Most Canadian media try to downplay the largest U.S. climate march ever---READ-->>
- Carbon trading is an obstacle to effective climate actionA reply to critics of “Time to scrap the ETS.” Getting rid of Europe’s emissions trading scheme will let us move towards climate policy that works---READ-->>
- Australian socialists on the climate change crisisA defining feature of politics today is the refusal of the capitalist class and its political representatives to confront the global climate crisis.---READ-->>
- Naomi Klein on the ‘ethical oil’ hoaxTar sands oil is like regular oil, but a lot dirtier---READ-->>
- Nature's mass protests against climate changeWe’re building important protests against climate change, but so far Nature’s protests are bigger, more militant, and more uncompromising.---READ-->>
- Plutocrats: An informative and frustrating bookReporter exposes privilege and inequality … while defending the system that causes it---READ-->>
- Keystone pipeline: A letter to Canada's Minister of Natural ResourcesCanada’s environmental record speaks for itself---READ-->>
- Join the ecosocialist contingent in Washington, February 17System change, not climate change! Help build a united, grassroots climate movement to stop the Keystone XL pipeline and end capitalist ecocide---READ-->>
- Is Obama really on our side?To succeed, the climate movement must be clear about who its allies and enemies are---READ-->>
- Carbon trading has failed: scrap the ETS nowEurope’s experience shows emissions trading is a disaster: it doesn’t reduce greenhouse gases, subsidizes the worst polluters, and locks in the fossil fuel economy.---READ-->>
- Hunger in Ethiopia: overpopulation or dispossession?Ethiopia has forcibly displaced hundreds of thousands of indigenous people from their lands to make way for giant plantations---READ-->>
- First Nations pull out of tar sands pipeline hearingThe people most affected by the plan cannot compete with Enbridge’s $250 million legal war chest.---READ-->>
- Good news! Now we can destroy the world even quickerAn oil discovery in Australia could make runaway climate change a certainty---READ-->>
- Why ecosocialism?“Green capitalism” is an oxymoron, because ecological destruction is built into the nature and logic of our present system of production and distribution.---READ-->>
- Democracy is the solution to the climate crisisMaude Barlow: “A healthy planet can only thrive in a healthy democracy. Any solution to one crisis must be a solution for both.”---READ-->>
- How can the divided left move forward?A good starting point would be to learn to ‘fail better.’ There are no predetermined solutions and we have to be open to the possibility of being wrong.---READ-->>
- Idle No More and media hypocrisy about wealthThe business press slams the lifestyles of Indigenous leaders … and lavishes sycophantic praise on the obscenely super-rich.---READ-->>