The Ecosocialist Resources column is published at irregular intervals. It features links to new articles, reports, talks and videos that are relevant to Climate & Capitalism’s mission and goals.
Inclusion of a link does not imply endorsement, or that we agree with everything (or even anything!) the item says.
If you read or write an article that might be appropriate for this column, please post your suggestion in the Climate and Capitalism Facebook group.
- Robert Biel: Imperialism and ecocideIf capitalism had been established in one small society in a small area it would consume itself in its unsustainability and cease to exist. But it is inherently global, and this is the problem.---READ-->>
- Truthout review: Too Many People? is 'sane, clear, and forthright'Feminist writer Eleanor J. Bader says new book by Ian Angus and Simon Butler is “a clear and convincing challenge to the idea of population control as political necessity”---READ-->>
- Canada undermines the human right to water at World Water ForumAt the 6th World Water Forum, Canada’s government successfully undermined the UN-recognized human right to water, and supported efforts by multinational water corporations to promote the privatization of water---READ-->>
- Grim news from Cape Grim: Australian temperatures rising fastReport projects an average temperature rise in Australia of 1 to 5°C by 2070, long-term drying over southern and eastern Australia and an increase in extreme weather events such as severe floods, droughts and extreme cyclones.---READ-->>
- Paulo Freire: The 'generosity' of the oppressors is nourished by death, despair, and povertyTrue generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the “rejects of life,” to extend their trembling hands.---READ-->>
- Canada's tar sands: The true cost of dirty oilVideo: What does massive environmental devastation look like? In this powerful and moving presentation, photographer Garth Lenz shows the world’s largest and most destructive industrial project and shares his stunning photos of the ecosystems and human communities that are under attack…---READ-->>
- Great Lakes have lost 71% of winter ice coverNeed proof of global warming? Ice cover on the Great Lakes fell nearly three-quarters between 1973 and 2010.---READ-->>
- Carbon Blood Money in HondurasA bloody struggle in Central America shows how schemes supposedly designed to offset carbon emissions can destroy lives and livelihoods in the world’s poorest countries.---READ-->>
- Welcome to the new Climate & CapitalismToday we launch an upgraded and completely redesigned Climate & Capitalism. I’m very excited about the transformation, which is part of the alliance with Monthly Review that was announced---READ-->>
- Richard Levins: Capitalism, hunger and health“The continuation of hunger in the modern world is not the result of an intractable problem thwarting our best efforts to feed people. Rather, agriculture in the capitalist world is directly concerned with profit and only indirectly with feeding people. “Similarly, the organization of health care is directly an economic enterprise and is ...---READ-->>
- Paul Sweezy: Capitalism versus the environmentSince there is no way to increase the capacity of the environment to bear the burdens placed on it, it follows that the adjustment must come entirely from the other side of the equation. And since the disequilibrium has already reached dangerous proportions, it also follows that what is essential for success is ...---READ-->>
- Why Marx Was RightTerry Eagleton. Why Marx Was Right. Yale University Press, 2011 reviewed by Dave Kellaway International Viewpoint “So you’re for the revolutionary Marxist overthrow of parliamentary democracy then.” This was the question flung by presenter Andrew Neil in a discussion on the BBC’s Daily Politics Show at Right to Work campaigner and SWP member Michael Bradley following a successful protest ...---READ-->>
- Bertolt Brecht: A song about carbon pricingby Dave Riley Die Massnahme (The Measures Taken or The Decision) was the first of Bertolt Brecht’s “learning” plays. It is a heavily didactic perhaps — even a tres propagandistic (egads!) and shocking — but is nonetheless beautifully conceived and written with music by Hans Eisler. It premièred at the Berlin Schauspielhaus in 1930. I’ve ...---READ-->>
- Fracking: The new global water crisisExecutive Summary of Fracking: The new global water crisis, published March 9, 2012 by Food and Water Watch Within the past decade, technological advances in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” have enabled the oil and gas industry to extract large quantities of oil and natural gas from shale formations in the United States. However, the ...---READ-->>
- James Hansen: Why I speak out about climate changeVideo: Top climate scientist James Hansen tells the story of his involvement in the science of and debate over global climate change. In doing so he outlines the overwhelming evidence that change is happening and why that makes him deeply worried about the future.---READ-->>
- Green Washed: Why we can’t buy our way to a green planetBook Review: Pierre-Louis hasn’t just done her research, she has organized and presented it very well, making a convincing case that green shopping cannot save the planet: that alone makes it a valuable resource for green activists. Pierre-Louis’s critique of green consumerism is powerful and effective, but is the alternative she offers credible?---READ-->>
- Friedrich Engels: Can humanity conquer nature?A persistent myth holds that Marx and Engels had unlimited faith in humanity’s ability to conquer nature and create ever more abundance — and no interest in sustainability or ecology. The myth falls apart when we examine what they actually wrote. “Let us not, however, flatter ourselves overmuch on account of our human ...---READ-->>
- Opening Pandora’s Box: The new wave of land grabbingThis trend is now a major driver of land grabbing globally, and poses a significant threat to the world’s indigenous communities, farmers and local food production systems, as well as to precious water, forests, biodiversity, critical ecosystems and climate change.---READ-->>
- Malaysia: Largest environmental protest condemns toxic refinery plans“The message is clear. The people have spoken up… The people do not want the Lynas Project in Malaysia” Between 15,000 and 20,000 people joined the biggest environmental protest ever held in Malaysia on February 26. The marchers condemned plans by the Australian mining company Lynas to refine dangerous rare earths close to the heavily-populated east coast ...---READ-->>
- Fukushima disaster was caused by Japan's nuclear authorities, not the tsunami“This disaster was predictable and predicted, but happened because of the age-old story of cutting corners to protect profits over people” A new report released today by Greenpeace argues it was neither the 7.1 magnitude earthquake nor the raging tsunami that followed which deserve the real blame for the nuclear disaster at Japan’s Fukushima Diachi power ...---READ-->>