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- On optimism and pessimismLeon Trotsky: Thoughts on a new year---READ-->>
- Antarctic: The big melt acceleratesWest Antarctica is one of the fastest warming regions on Earth---READ-->>
- Canada: Idle No More movement demands indigenous rights, environmental justiceVideo: Democracy Now interviews Dr. Pamela Palmater, spokeswoman for the Idle No More movement.---READ-->>
- C&C's 2012 Top 20In 2012 the most popular Climate & Capitalism articles were …---READ-->>
- Believing otherwise: Individual action and social changeIndividual actions won’t change the world — but that doesn’t mean every advocate of personal change is headed in the wrong direction.---READ-->>
- Dialectics in Science: An interview with Helena SheehanThe tendency of some on the left to counterpose a humanistic Marx to a positivist Engels weakens Marxism, and is not supported by historical evidence.---READ-->>
- Vertical farming: Another 'solution' that won't workBuilding factory farms in urban skyscrapers is promoted as a way to fix our broken food system. Despite the good intentions of its advocates, it’s a fantasy, an unrealistic techno-fix that can only divert attention from the need for real change.---READ-->>
- Chasing Ice: A must-see filmIncredible photography, undeniable evidence of climate change---READ-->>
- How First Nations organized against tar sands pipelinesCoastal First Nations leader explains how they won the support of 80% of British Columbians for the indigenous peoples’ campaign against Enbrodge’s pipeline plans---READ-->>
- Population, consumption, and rectanglesCan elementary geometry explain environmental problems? Actually, no.---READ-->>
- Climate disaster CAN be preventedPractical, affordable solutions exist, but the necessary resources won’t be mobilized so long as corporations, media barons and generals make all the big decisions.---READ-->>
- Postmodern meets the class struggle, illustratedStop complaining, everything is relative …---READ-->>
- The new fight over who owns the earthBook review: ‘Landgrabbers’ offers a bleak picture of land grabs by corporations for agriculture or resource exploitation and equally appalling ‘green grabs’ by conservationists---READ-->>
- Bolivia at UN talks: The climate is not for sale!“We did not come here to turn the climate into a business, or to protect businesses of them who want to continue aggravating the climate crisis, destroying Mother Earth. We came here to protect the future of humanity.”---READ-->>
- Pipeline politics: Can popular protest stop the tar sands leviathan?Supported by the government and the opposition parties, Enbridge is pushing ahead with plans to pipe toxic bitumen through Ontario. First Nations and environmentalists are trying to mobilize public opposition.---READ-->>
- Via Campesina: UN climate talks achieve nothing, promote false capitalist solutionsThe international peasant movement denounces the use of the climate negotiations to legitimize business as usual at the expense of humanity and the planet, and rejects false capitalist solutions that will only worsen the climate and food crises.---READ-->>
- The economic cost of U.S. food monopoliesIn an economy dominated by monopolies, the food industry goes to extremes---READ-->>
- Exxon hates your childrenA short video that clearly states the simple truth---READ-->>
- Ecosocialism and the fight for free public transitMass transportation is intimately tied not only to the physical form of cities, but to the deeper social structures of imperial capitalism. A campaign for free public transit can be an important part of a broader fight to restructure society along ecosocialist lines.---READ-->>
- Flight Behavior: Climate change, poverty, and butterfliesBarbara Kingsolver’s new novel is a beautifully written and compelling account of working people responding to the local effects of a global crisis---READ-->>