To stop climate change, we must understand how capitalism generates destructive processes that put Earth at risk
Interview with Jeff Sparrow
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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
Funding Climate Chaos
Bankers lie about fossil fuel finance
Despite promising cuts, the world's biggest banks pour trillions into oil, gas and coal
White Skin, Black Fuel
The Danger of Fossil Fascism
Understanding the growing combination of racism, climate science denial, and fossil fuel promotion
'Sacrifice Zones'
UN report names the world’s most polluted places
Pollution kills more people than all wars, murders and other forms of violence combined