Commercial farming of wild animals as luxury food for the rich triggered a global pandemic
COVID Economics
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Fake Accounting
Carbon offsets are undermining real climate action
Offsetting allows corporations to increase emissions, while getting credit for pseudo-reductions elsewhere
Reading for reds and greens
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, July 2024
Six new books on neoliberal ideology, oceans in crisis, Michigan's water wars, and the corrupt food industry
The Road to Covid
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
Debate
Two views (both wrong) on Marx, degrowth, and productivism
Saito versus Huber and Phillips: Opposing views both promote the myth of Marxist Prometheanism
Follow the Money
The biggest banks are financing climate chaos
Since the Paris Agreement, megabanks have invested $6.9 trillion in fossil fuels
Bird Flu
For wildlife, the next pandemic is already here
Disease from megafarms has killed millions of wild birds and mammals
Indicators Report
Temperature rise ‘unprecedented in the instrumental record’
1.3°C jump in 2023; emissions budget shrinking fast
READING FOR REDS & GREENS
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, June 2024
Unequal epidemics, biotech in Africa, capitalist greed, climate history, fracking, and corporate crime
WHO REPORT
COVID wiped out 10 years of life expectancy gains
Global life expectancy falls back to 2012 level; Americas and SE Asia hit hardest