Serious energy policy must address overproduction, overconsumption and inequality. Without that, promises of an economy based on 100% renewable energy are misleading and dangerous.
Pain-free sustainability?
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New Ideas
Should the left build an alternative energy commons?
For Discussion: Patricia Mann says that building networks of renewable energy microproduction could be the basis for a mass anticapitalist movement. What do you think?
Inseparable causes
One struggle: For social justice and against climate catastrophe
Climate-related catastrophe is now not just an additional hazard for the world’s poor, but a central factor in their oppression and poverty.
Ecosocialist Bookshelf
What are the essential books on ecosocialism?
HELP WANTED: What books would you include on basic and advanced reading lists for red-greens and green-reds?
Furious torrents
Hurricane Harvey and the Dialectics of Nature
Houston is the city where capitalism's victory over nature is the most complete — and also where nature takes its ultimate revenge
Book Review
In the Anthropocene, environmentalists must join wider battles
In 'Facing the Anthropocene' Ian Angus shows that the earth system crisis originated in specific developments in late capitalism arising out of WWII. He also tells us who our enemies are.
Book Review
Creating an Ecological Society: Living well is the best revolution
The authors’ command of ecology is not limited to Marx’s concept of metabolic rift. They lay out the facts of the eco-crisis and potential cures, minus cant and jargon.
Interview with Fred Magdoff
Capitalism puts profits first, but an ecological society will serve humanity
Fred Magdoff: "Decisions made about production and consumption will emphasize on positive effects on humans and the health of the broader environment, rather than the profits and wealth of a few"
Ian Angus On Air
Radio Interview: Is Capitalism Killing Our Climate?
'Planet Haliburton' is a twice-monthly program on Canoe-FM in Haliburton Ontario. Hosts Greg Roe and Terry Moore interviewed Climate & Capitalism editor Ian Angus on August 14, 2017.
More fake news!
A climate denier’s guide to viewing the eclipse
Science, schmience. Now the elitists want us to buy special glasses. Don't fall for their lies!