How a giant industry that plunders the seas for tiny fish is reinforcing unsustainable industrial agriculture
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Climate and hunger
Warmer climate = more hungry insects = less food
New research: Each one degree rise in global temperature will increase insect-driven losses to rice, corn and wheat crops by 10 to 25 percent
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Degrowth considered
The ecological insights of degrowth theory are undermined by blindspots about renewability, agriculture, unalienated labor, and the power of our enemies
On the precipice
To overcome climate paralysis, unite for system change
On the precipice of disaster, we have vast numbers of potential allies. All our differences pale next to the overwhelming urgency of our common task.
Technofixes
Engineering the climate could cost us the earth
Geoengineering is a political technology, part of institutional apparatus that is preventing effective climate action and delaying structural change
Red-Green Perspective
Carrying capacity, technology, and ecomodernist confusion
A radical biologist replies to an ecomodernist who ignores the social roots of environmental crises
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Ecomodernism and nuclear power: No solution for climate change
In 'Energy: A Human History,' Richard Rhodes trivializes the dangers of nuclear power and plunges into the abyss of ecomodernist technobabble.
John Bellamy Foster:
‘There is still time for an ecological revolution to prevent Hothouse Earth’
We need hundreds of millions of people to mobilize in an independent, revolutionary campaign to reconstitute global production and consumption.
The Rising Tide of environmental destruction
Arundhati Roy: The deadly flood in Kerala may be only a gentle warning
'Unbridled greed, denuding of forest land, illegal construction, destruction of natural water systems, and mismanagement of dams, have all played a huge part.'
Reading matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, August 2018
Six new books for reds & greens. Marxist History of Capitalism. Superbugs. Rising Oceans. Capitalism in Critical Theory. Food Bank Nations. American Oligarchy