China's reckless mode of development has savaged its environment and ecology. Is a new revolution the only way to prevent disaster?
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Movement debate
Ecosocialism and/or Degrowth?
Should the ecological left aim to reduce all consumption, or to radically transform the prevalent type of consumption?
Biodiversity
Capitalism – not ‘humanity’ – is killing the world’s wildlife
The new Living Planet report grimly documents global environmental destruction, but lets the responsible systems and institutions off the hook
War Communism?
Book Review: Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency
Gradual reforms can't do the job: only profoundly radical measures can ensure human survival in an epoch of global sickening.
An ecosocialist Manifesto
For an egalitarian, cooperative road to ecosocialism!
Australian ecosocialists call for a new mass movement to stop capitalism from destroying our common future.
Triple Crisis in the Anthropocene Ocean, Part Two
Running Low on Oxygen
Continuing Ian Angus’s examination of the ‘deadly trio’ of CO2-driven assaults on ocean life. Part two: The ocean is losing its breath.
Book Review
Nature and Society, from Karl Marx to Rachel Carson
In 'The Return of Nature,' John Bellamy Foster documents the chain of people and ideas that connects Marx and Engels to the 20th century's greatest ecological thinkers
Triple Crisis in the Anthropocene Ocean, Part One
Corrosive Seas
Scientists call them a ‘deadly trio.’ If acidification, oxygen loss, and overheating are not ended soon, a massive die-off of ocean life may be unstoppable.
Reading Matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, September 2020
Five new books and an essential magazine! Science for People; Katrina’s History; Small Farm Future; Mass Migration; Energy and Work; China’s Environmental Crisis
Movement Building
South African movement adopts Climate Justice Charter
Mass grassroots campaign calls for system change now and for a climate justice deal that ends the suffering of the most vulnerable and oppressed