Part Three of Ian Angus’s examination of the disruption of the global nitrogen cycle by an economic system that values profits more than life itself.
Metabolic Rifts
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, Sept. 2019, Part 2
We seldom receive enough new books to justify two columns in one month, but our red and green bookshelf is overflowing …
Is transition possible?
China and the Prospects for a Global Ecological Civilization
As the world leader in renewable energy capacity and production, China has the potential to open up a path for global ecosocialist transition, if ...
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Capitalism versus the Global Carbon Cycle
Carbon cycles regulate the Earth’s temperature and provide essential elements of life. Capitalist industry and agriculture are disrupting those vital life support systems
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, September 2019
Five books for reds and greens .... Waste ... Solar Power ... Sustainable Food Systems ... Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society ... America’s Overripe Economy.
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Again: Does Anthropocene Science Blame All Humanity?
New scientific papers explode the myth that refuses to die.
Draft UN Report
Warming oceans will ‘unleash misery on a global scale’
Special Report will detail anticipated declines in fish stocks as well as increases in damage by superstorms and mass displacement due to rising seas
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Should progressives support restricting immigration?
A pseudo-progressive argument for closed borders uses false logic and dubious statistics, and blames migrants for the conditions that force them to move.
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Marx’s notebooks and the origins of Marxist ecology
Finally published in full, Marx's notebooks from the 1860s provide important insights into his views on ecology and capital's destruction of nature.
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, August 2019
New books for reds and greens. How the Richest Drive Climate Change; Planning from Below; The Scottish Clearances; Slime; Here Comes the Sun; Eco-Socialism and Practical Utopias