Six important new books: The Return of Nature … Deaths of Despair … Rebel Cinderella … August Bebel … The Green New Deal and Beyond … The Triumph of Doubt
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Does Pandemic = Famine?
Covid-19 disrupts food systems; global hunger crisis looms
Global food price increases could be worse than in the 2008 crisis, causing major shortages and increased malnutrition in the global south.
Dutch manifesto
Five proposals for a better world after the pandemic
170 Dutch academics sign manifesto for sustainable, equal and diverse societies based on international solidarity
Biodiversity under pressure
Rising heat may crash entire ecosystems
New studies show global warming is raising the risk of sudden, near total collapse of the wild populations that sustain human society.
Dead End Strategies
The dangerous folly of eco-primitivism: A reply to John Zerzan and Derrick Jensen
Once icons of radical environmentalism, the views they now promote lead to a self-defeating mix of scapegoating, isolation and nihilist adventurism.
Our Viral Future
Covid-19: Will Big Oil emerge more powerful than ever?
Oil companies face severe problems now, but in the long run the industry giants may be bigger and even more dangerous to life on Earth.
Book Review
Making room for humans in scientific ecology
20th century ecology moved from racism and eugenics to studies of undisturbed natural ecosystems. Today, ecological science must integrate social sciences.
Global crisis
Angus interview in Peruvian indigenous newspaper
Lucha Indigena (Indigenous Struggle), edited by legendary Peruvian peasant leader Hugo Blanco, translates 'Ecosocialism or Barbarism' interview
Book Review
Making the case that green politics must be ecosocialist
Essays by pioneering ecosocialist Joel Kovel argue that radical social change is the only way to prevent ecocatastrophe
Pandemic
Pulverized: Capitalism, Africa and Covid-19
In the Global North it is a 'novel threat.' In the South, it extends the common experience of brutal assaults accompanied by waves of illness and death