Part One of a discussion 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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respect traditional owners
End human rights abuses in forest conservation
“The National Park model of excluding indigenous peoples and local communities is fundamentally flawed. We have witnessed countless examples of human rights abuses in conservation projects.”
A Red-Green Manifesto for the 21st Century
No shortcuts: The climate revolution must be ecosocialist
Only a mass socialist, feminist, internationalist, pro-peasant, anti-racist, indigenous, and anti-colonial movement can save humanity
Permafrost melting?
Yukon temperatures are the highest in 13,600 years
Warming of over 2 degrees Celsius is above the global average and well above the average of the rest of the Arctic region
Book review
Biofuels: A pseudo-green scam that only enriches agribusiness
Ethanol and biodiesel boost corporate profits while doing nothing to solve the world's growing social and environmental crises
Book Review
New contributions to the theory and practice of Marxist Ecosocialism
Michael Löwy reviews two important books for ecosocialists: 'Karl Marx's Ecosocialism' by Kohei Saito, and 'Red-Green Revolution' by Victor Wallis.
The transition we need, 2
How would a revolutionary government protect the environment?
There is an enormous unused human potential waiting to be drawn into the job of saving the ecosphere. How can it be mobilized?
The transition we need, 1
Carbon pricing and new technology won’t stop climate change
We need truly radical measures, and ultimately a different kind of government with the political will to lead, coordinate and consolidate the transition
Metabolic rift
Broiler chickens: The defining species of the Anthropocene?
Forget jokes about crossing the road. New research identifies chickens as a vivid symbol of the transformation of the biosphere in our time
climate debt
Rich countries must pay for cyclone devastation in southern Africa
Climate change, caused by industrialized rich countries, is responsible for the disaster now unfolding in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi