Five new books for green-left activists, on urban climate change, past mass extinctions, tropical rainforests, religious anti-science, and the end of Arctic ice.
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Thoughts on wild strawberries
What we sow is what we eat
The failure of modern food production derives from the nature of our economic system, which considers everything and everyone a commodity. It doesn’t have to be this way.
What If?
Cholera, Contingency, and Marx’s Drinking Water
Ecosocialist Notebook: A visit to two historic sites in London prompts thoughts about the role of individuals in history, and the possibility that Marxism might never have happened.
Pain-free sustainability?
The green energy cornucopia is 100 percent wishful thinking
Serious energy policy must address overproduction, overconsumption and inequality. Without that, promises of an economy based on 100% renewable energy are misleading and dangerous.
New Ideas
Should the left build an alternative energy commons?
For Discussion: Patricia Mann says that building networks of renewable energy microproduction could be the basis for a mass anticapitalist movement. What do you think?
Inseparable causes
One struggle: For social justice and against climate catastrophe
Climate-related catastrophe is now not just an additional hazard for the world’s poor, but a central factor in their oppression and poverty.
Ecosocialist Bookshelf
What are the essential books on ecosocialism?
HELP WANTED: What books would you include on basic and advanced reading lists for red-greens and green-reds?
Furious torrents
Hurricane Harvey and the Dialectics of Nature
Houston is the city where capitalism's victory over nature is the most complete — and also where nature takes its ultimate revenge
Book Review
In the Anthropocene, environmentalists must join wider battles
In 'Facing the Anthropocene' Ian Angus shows that the earth system crisis originated in specific developments in late capitalism arising out of WWII. He also tells us who our enemies are.
Book Review
Creating an Ecological Society: Living well is the best revolution
The authors’ command of ecology is not limited to Marx’s concept of metabolic rift. They lay out the facts of the eco-crisis and potential cures, minus cant and jargon.