New books on fungi, climate & capital, food, bluefin tuna, & Cuban agriculture. PLUS new translations of Facing the Anthropocene, and two recent C&C book reviews
Red & green reading
Latest Articles
Our History is the Future
The Dakota Access Pipeline and the Long Tradition of Resistance
The Dakota Access Pipeline fight continues the long history of struggle against colonial settler genocide and ecological vandalism.
Metabolic Rifts
Dead Zones: Industrial Agriculture versus Ocean Life
Worldwide, there are now over a thousand coastal areas where fish can’t breathe. The nitrogen that makes crops grow is also destroying offshore ecosystems.
Book Review
People’s Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons
Not just renewable energy, but global system change! A call to arms for a transformative approach to energy and a new society.
Pandemic responses
Covid-19: Asian contrasts and lessons
Some Asian countries have effectively contained the disease, while others have dramatically failed. What's behind the differences?
Greenhouse Gas
‘Worst case’ emissions scenario is best match for reality
The IPCC's most extreme projection of the impact of global climate policies is tracking within one percent of actual results.
Agrochemical pollution
Pesticides speed the spread of deadly parasites
Even low concentrations of pesticides can increase transmission and weaken efforts to control the second most common parasitic disease
Reading matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf: Mid-July, 2020
Six new books ... Greta Thunberg’s story; Fighting corporate food systems; Revolutionaries on climate; Food and revolution; A case for meat; Our carbon world
Film review
Is lab-grown meat the future of food?
Documentary on 'clean meat' fails to question the technology's rationale and blindly accepts dubious claims made by its promoters
False Promises
The ‘Green Revolution in Africa’ is failing on its own terms
The Gates Foundation's billion dollar project is a vicious circle that drives small-scale food producers further and further into poverty