From Earth's history to global heating to water crises to socialist strategy: Eight new books for radical readers
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Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues, Part 8: Deadly Heat
‘Climate change has already caused mass death on a pandemic-like scale’
Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues. Part 7: Wildlife farms and wet markets
Commercial farming of wild animals as luxury food for the rich triggered a global pandemic
Carbon offsets are undermining real climate action
Offsetting allows corporations to increase emissions, while getting credit for pseudo-reductions elsewhere
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, July 2024
Six new books on neoliberal ideology, oceans in crisis, Michigan's water wars, and the corrupt food industry
Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues, Part 6: China’s Livestock Revolution
The near-universal adoption of mass production in confined facilities makes pandemics all but inevitable
Two views (both wrong) on Marx, degrowth, and productivism
Saito versus Huber and Phillips: Opposing views both promote the myth of Marxist Prometheanism
The biggest banks are financing climate chaos
Since the Paris Agreement, megabanks have invested $6.9 trillion in fossil fuels
For wildlife, the next pandemic is already here
Disease from megafarms has killed millions of wild birds and mammals
Temperature rise ‘unprecedented in the instrumental record’
1.3°C jump in 2023; emissions budget shrinking fast