World is further away from ending hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition
UN Report
Climate Crisis
U.S. has the warmest nights ever
July 2022 was a textbook case of how global warming gets even more pronounced after dark.
Book review
Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America’s Woods
To stop illegal logging we must understand the poachers
Interview with Jeff Sparrow
Capitalism’s crimes against nature
To stop climate change, we must understand how capitalism generates destructive processes that put Earth at risk
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, July 2022
Summer reading for greens and reds. New books on work, extractive industry, empire, pandemics, organizing, and socialism
Hoax in Sinai
Egyptian regime using COP27 to greenwash repression
Genuine global grassroots movements must not take part this state-orchestrated charade
Wealth and profits soar
The Inequality Pandemic
More billionaires, more extreme poverty. Global inequality has skyrocketed since Covid began
Respect and convergence
For ecosocialist degrowth
Mapping areas of agreement between two of the most important radical ecology movements
Deforestation
Indigenous organizations in Peru declare state of emergency
Stop assassinations, end land grabs, recognize rights to ancestral territories
Reading Matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, June 2022
Seven important new books on science, medicine, and socialism.
Capital vs Commons, 6
A forgotten revolutionary: Thomas Spence on saving the commons
"When a people create landlords, they create tyrants and oppressors"
Climate Vandalism
Greenhouse gases trapped 49% more heat in 2021 than in 1990
Climate-changing pollution reaches record levels, driving unprecedented heating
Earth System Science
A major advance in defining the Anthropocene
Anthropocene Working Group announces shortlist of ‘golden spike’ locations; Scientists plan to vote this year
Overheating
Climate change indicators set records
The most recent seven years are the seven warmest years on record.
'Austerity' for the poor
IMF ‘double standard’ displays capitalism’s inherent inhumanity
Human lives in the periphery are worth less than human lives in the metropolis
Reading matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, May 2022
Democracy, insects, Cuba, plastic, capitalist drug pushers & trespassing. Books for understanding and changing the world
Science overruled
How vested interests rewrote the IPCC’s latest report
Corporations and politicians edited the Policy Summary to omit the scientists' most powerful conclusions
'Charlie'
Darwin: ‘Commonsense and Wonder’
A song about a man who forever changed how we understand our world
Extreme Weather
‘Rain Bomb’ kills over 300 in South Africa, exposing political hypocrisy
Greenwash and lies cause disaster, while government promotes coal and methane
Reading for change
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, April 2022
Our monthly selection of new books for people who want to change the world