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Commodity cod & factory ships
Intensive Fishing and the Birth of Capitalism, Part 1
Beginning a series on the role of fishing in the birth and spread of capitalism, and the role of capitalism in today’s mass extinction of ocean life.
Book Review
Are UN climate talks leading to a global dictatorship?
Climate Leviathan warns that a worldwide imperial state is on the agenda, but provides no credible arguments or evidence.
A practical legal maxim
‘The health of the people should be the supreme law’
An ancient principle of justice points to solutions for today’s four-fold mega-crisis
Public Meeting, February 6
Crisis in the Amazon: A Planetary Challenge
Can the world's most important rain forest be saved?
Reading for reds & greens
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, Jan. 2021
Capitalism and Community; Engels and Nature; After Covid-19; The Marx Revival; For Degrowth; Super Polluters; How to Blow Up a Pipeline.
Two-Party Dead-End
Bidenfreude:
Covid-19 in Post-Trump U.S.
We're glad Trump lost, but Biden's win brings no joy. It's time for real alternatives.
Despite Covid Slowdown
Upper Ocean Temperatures Set a New High Record in 2020
Over 90% of the excess heat due to global warming is absorbed by the oceans
Book Review
Amber Waves: A Biography of Wheat
It took thousands of years for wheat to evolve from a wild grass into a highly productive source of food. Can it help address global hunger in our time?
Exceptions have become the norm
Capitalism and Catastrophe
Covid and climate change aren't aberrations: they are aspects of the system's permanent global crisis.