"We don’t know how long we have before climate change goes from dangerous to extremely dangerous, but we know that continuing with business as usual makes such a shift increasingly likely."
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Explaining the Anthropocene:
Ecosocialist Notebook
Climate & Capitalism editor on Australian speaking tour, April 30-May 14
C&C will be taking a break while Ian Angus speaks at ecosocialist meetings in seven Australian cities, and launches his new book at the Socialism for the 21st Century conference in Sydney.
Movement building
Can we shop our way to a better world?
Lifestyle change and 'ethical consumerism' are not bridges to effective social change, but barriers to it. To build effective social movements, we must begin by rejecting individualist approaches.
Too Many People?
Population and food sovereignty: An exchange
Ian Angus replies to a reader. If 'overpopulation' is not a primary cause of global environmental problems, what about island nations with limited space and resources?
Movement Building
Climate justice movement shakes
Canada’s New Democratic Party
The impact of the Leap Manifesto at the party convention opens major opportunities to deepen the debate on climate justice and to build an ecosocialist left in and around the NDP.
Book Review
Fishers and plunderers: The tragedy of the commodity
Overfishing, pollution and warming water have pushed the world’s oceans into crisis. If nothing is done the results will be catastrophic for marine systems and the billions of humans who rely on them. To stop this destruction our society has to be...
Movement Building
Canada: Leap Manifesto unites broad forces, builds climate justice campaigns
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has acknowledged shocking details about the violence of Canada’s near past. Deepening poverty and inequality are a scar on the country’s present. And Canada’s record on climate change is a crime against...
Capitalism today
Understanding and confronting the great inequality
Michael Yates explains why inequality matters, how it negatively affects nearly every aspect of our lives, how its underlying causes are rooted in modern capitalism, and why informed radical action by working people, the unemployed and the poor is...
Too Many People?
The real population problem is too many capitalists
"There are too many coal barons, too many oil tycoons, too many politicians who are completely tied to the fossil fuel industry, too many vested interests that don't want change." Radio Adelaide interviews Simon Butler.
Ecosocialism
John Bellamy Foster answers three questions on Marxism and ecology
In the present planetary epoch, the concept of sustainable human development, as a way of conceiving of socialism, represents Marx’s most valuable legacy. No other ecological analysis has such breadth and power.