'The risks are poorly understood and can never be fully known'
CAPITAL VERSUS COMMONS, 5
Against Enclosure: The Commoners Fight Back
Three centuries of mass resistance to privatization and dispossession
Reading matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, January 2022
Start the new year with seven new books for red-greens and green-reds
DEBATE
Ecosocialism and degrowth: A reply
Before criticizing, we need to understand what radical degrowthers actually say and propose.
Pollution
The great plastic bag myth
Are reusable cotton bags really worse than supermarket plastic?
Debate
A critique of degrowth
An ecosocialist perspective in the context of a global Green New Deal
Production Gap Report
Fossil fuel cuts: Promises vs plans
Governments plan for over twice as much fossil fuel as required for limiting warming to 1.5°C
Readers' choice
Top 10 C&C articles of 2021 … and all time
There are now 2,776 articles on the Climate & Capitalism website. How many have you read?
Book Review
Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World
The 19th century search for fertilizer drove imperialist expansion and ecological destruction
Book Reviews
‘The Dawn of Everything’ gets human history wrong
Is inequality inevitable? Is freedom just a choice? Two materialist critiques of a widely-praised book.
Radical reading
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, December 2021
Six new books and six important essays for reds and greens
Capital versus Commons, 4
Dispossessed:
Origins of the Working Class
Deprived of land and common rights, the English poor were forced into wage-labor
Book Review
Stories of Resistance
Fighting back against extractivism, false solutions, and social and climate abuse around the world
Counterfeit leftism
A socialist reply to ‘leftwing’ antivax disinformation
Antivaxxers of all stripes are a threat to public health
Blah Blah Blah
Greenwash: Oil industry promotes carbon capture fantasy
Fossil fuel production gets rebranded as "carbon management."
Capital vs Climate
A chicken can’t lay a duck egg
... and that's why the market can't solve the climate crisis
The time of monsters
The failure of COPitalism
Even on its own terms, the outcome of the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow was catastrophic
Metabolic Rift
Corn Belt N2O emissions outweigh soil carbon storage
Nitrogen emissions can overwhelm the climate benefits of storing carbon in agricultural soil
Reading matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, November 2021
5 new books for reds and greens … plus 4 important articles and 3 recent reviews
Book Review
Reducing Production for a Livable Future
Stan Cox says there will not be a livable future unless we slash obscene levels of corporate production