Eco-modernists promise that technology can solve all environmental problems and provide abundance for all. There is no sustainable way to do that.
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Resilience
Project Life: Cuba’s action plan prepares for climate change
As an island nation, Cuba is particularly vulnerable to climate change. Project Life (Tarea Vida), now being implemented across the country, aims to increase the country's resilience and minimize future damage
Science for the People
Why we are marching for science
Statement on the second annual March for Science on Saturday, April 14, 2018. "We need to transform the role of science in our world."
Author Focus
Sustainable Food Systems: An interview with Robert Biel
Conventional farming destroys the complex soil ecosystem and ultimately the soil itself, so the risk of not changing it is too great. (Free book available for download)
Corporate liars exposed
Shell knew about climate threat decades ago
Secret documents reveal that the giant oil company's scientists warned executives about the global impact of fossil fuels as early as 1981
Reading matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, April 2018
Six new books for reds and greens ... climate change and disease ... capitalist power and the planet's future ... brain, body, and environment ... oceanic art and science ... essential fungi and life ... the political economy of water.
ocean destruction
Can information technology save global fisheries?
Masses of new data reveal where fish are being captured and by whom, and what determines fishing schedules. Will this information lead to sustainable fishing, so long as profit rules?
Discussion
Ecosocialism and consumerism
Commodity accumulation leads people to identify with the means of destruction. We must aim to disintegrate links in the chain of capital reproduction.
Book Review
14 Billion Years of Revolutionary Change
‘Quarks to Culture’ is an important but flawed account of emergence in history, of 12 major transitions that created the world we live in, from the Big Bang to the Geopolitical State.
The movement we need
Andreas Malm: Revolutionary Strategy in a Warming World
How can climate justice activists stop capitalism's drive to catastrophe? The author of Fossil Capital considers lessons from past revolutions and proposes an action program for today.