[Quotes and Insights #17] This quote is particularly telling because the author is trying save capitalism from itself. Nowhere is capitalism’s time horizon problem more acute than in the area of global environmentalism … What should a...
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The Global Fight for Climate Justice
This review appears in the current issue of the journal Socialist Studies, and is republished here with the author’s permission. Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)...
This is what plutonomy looks like
The disproportionate share of income taken by the very rich in the US, UK, Australia, and Canada led analysts at Citigroup to define those countries as plutonomies — economies “where economic growth is powered by and largely consumed by the wealthy...
Who's Blocking U.S. Action on Climate Change?
Rolling Stone names the top 12 most powerful opponents of restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions … Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to share on X...
Biology’s Bomb: Graphing 'Explosive' Population Growth in Cold War Textbooks
How supposedly objective textbooks made the “population bomb” as real and scary to school children in the 1960s as the H-bombs that drove them under their desks. Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on...
Food Prices and Oil Prices
A graphic depiction of the impact of biofuels and oil prices on food prices. Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to...
Why Aren’t Greens Kicking the Sh*t Out of Corporate America?
Rogue actors known as corporations have hijacked our democracy, but the environmental NGO industrial complex stays in Washington D.C. without a rudder or a clue Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on...
‘We can't save capitalism and save the planet’
Book Review. Chris Williams, Ecology & Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis. Haymarket Books, 2010 Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to...
Australia's floods are just the beginning
The extreme weather we’re seeing now is linked to less than 1 degree of atmospheric warming. Much worse is on the way. Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click...
The Futility of Green Capitalism
Daniel Tanuro’s new book, L’impossible capitalisme vert,or “The Futility of Green Capitalism”, is a major contribution to our analytical understanding of ecosocialism. Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share...