There are no easy fixes, but to succeed, climate activists must build a broader movement to challenge and transcend global capitalism
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, July 2019
More books for reds and greens. Vanishing Fish … Between Earth and Empire … Making Rojava Green … One Planet, One Health … Why Carbon Trading Fails
Book Review
Confronting the rising tide of marine disease
Warming the climate and polluting the sea is leading to explosive outbreaks of new infectious diseases
Ecosocialist classic
Barry Commoner: The systems we depend on are upside down
Decades ago, he showed that environmental, energy and economic crises had a common cause: a system that demands increased profits at all costs
Book Review
Gee Whiz! Communism is sure gonna be keen!
'Fully Automated Luxury Communism' trivializes the global environmental crisis with badly-researched techno-hype and political plans that don’t come close to addressing the world’s problems.
Marxist ecology
The ecosocialist views of Karl Marx – An interview with Kohei Saito
The winner of the 2018 Deutscher Prize discusses Karl Marx's radical understanding of capitalism's deadly disruption of the universal metabolism of nature.
Food Sovereignty
On the future of farming and ecomodernist illusions
Some writers imagine that machines can feed the world. They ignore the damage caused by industrial agriculture, and don’t value the work of people who feed most of humanity today.
Global heat
Atmospheric carbon dioxide level hits all-time high
Seventh consecutive year of steep increases leads to the highest greenhouse gas concentration recorded in 61 years of observations
Movement building
What will it take to win a Green New Deal?
Canadian NGOs have launched a "Pact for a Green New Deal." Will they build the movement that's needed to win real changes?
Six new books
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, June 2019
Marxist environmental essays ... Science and the Anthropocene ... Is disaster avoidable? ... Capitalism at sea ... Beef and class struggle ... Climate and the biggest volcano