John Bellamy Foster's new book is a call for urgent action and an intervention into the debates about the kind of action needed to win this "race" for the future.
Green Left to Honour Peterloo Martyrs
This month the English Green Left will meet in Manchester. The meeting is timed to coincide with the 190th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre, one of the most significant events in British radical history. Related posts… (auto-generated)...
A Song for Reds and Greens
Robb Johnson kindly allowed me to include the lyrics of his song ‘Red and Green’ in my new book, The Global Fight for Climate Justice. Here is Roy Bailey’s recording of this beautiful piece. (from his CD Coda, which can be...
Capitalism or a habitable planet – you can't have both
We somehow missed this article when it was published over two years ago, but what it says remains absolutely true: the existing system is unsustainable by its very nature. It can’t be fixed. +++++++++++++ by Robert Newman The Guardian...
Global Warming and the Political Ecology of Health
Book Review: Global Warming and the Political Ecology of Health. by Hans Baer & Merrill Singer. Left Coast Press, 2009. Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new IPCC report says about climate change and land The climate report that Trump...
Rich Countries' Carbon Debt: $23 trillion
Developed countries would need to reduce their emissions by 213% by 2050, for developing countries to maintain their current per capita emission level Related posts… (auto-generated) ‘Developing countries’ are trapped in a new debt...
Climate Wars: A not-so-hot book on global warming
Dyer offers the human nature argument, that it is in our nature to keep expanding our population until we spoiled our own environment. So nobody is “to blame” because we are all to blame.
G8 Inaction Makes Catastrophe More Likely
“There has been no progress on the huge gap between what the science says is needed and what developed countries will commit to” Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new IPCC report says about climate change and land Andreas Malm:...
Climate and Capitalism Seminar Set for London
If you’re in England on September 12, don’t miss the Climate and Capitalism seminar in London, sponsored by Green Left and Socialist Resistance Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new IPCC report says about climate change and land...
Infighting Kills Alberta Green Party
A provincial wing of Canada’s ecocapitalist party has imploded in a fight over whether to be somewhat moderate or very moderate. Related posts… (auto-generated) Left-wing Quebec party will focus on climate change Socialist tendency formed in...
An Ecosocialist Program for South Africa
Climate & Capitalism previously reported that the Socialist Green Coalition was prevented from running in South Africa’s recent election by a huge election deposit and other registration problems. The ecosocialist current issued this...
How not to build the climate change movement
[from Green Left Weekly, 26 July 2009] This Open Letter was sent to the Australian Youth Climate Coalition from the socialist youth organization Resistance, following the Power Shift 2009 conference in Sydney, July 11-13. We face a climate emergency...
Hugo Blanco on the Massacre at Bagua
On June 5, world environment day, Peruvian president Alan Garcia turned his anti-ecological fury against the defenders of the Amazon Related posts… (auto-generated) Hugo Blanco, peasant leader and ecosocialist, 1934-2023 Hugo Blanco on the...
The 'Disappeared' in Peru
Derek Wall of Another Green World reports on the victims of Peru’s war against the indigenous people of the Amazon region of Bagua. Related posts… (auto-generated) Hugo Blanco on the indigenous struggle for land in Peru From Copenhagen to...
Peru's Continuing War Against Indigenous Peoples
Despite recent indigenous victories, the Peruvian government’s war continues and could possibly intensify into open battle, as happened the last time the government provoked the indigenous to protest Related posts… (auto-generated) Hugo Blanco...
The Global Fight for Climate Justice
“At last, an absolutely indispensable guide to the debate on climate change, a sourcebook that makes the case for anti-capitalist action as the only effective way to stop global warming. ” —Joel Kovel, author of The Enemy of Nature and founding...
Obama's Cap and Trade Carbon Emissions Bill – A Stealth Scheme to License Pollution and Fraud
Bill does nothing to address environmental issues, lets corporate polluters reap huge windfall profits, and paves the way for a new bubble through carbon trading derivatives speculation. Polluters love it. Related posts… (auto-generated) What the...
Mainstream Economists versus the Earth
[From “Notes from the Editors,” Monthly Review, July-August 2009. Posted by permission.] A new book by economist Frank Ackerman, Can We Afford the Future?: The Economics of a Warming World (Zed, 2009), presents an important and startling...
Millions Face Hunger as Seasons Disappear
Oxfam: Without a serious effort to reduce warming, and in the absence of international funds for adaptation, the food, water, health and livelihoods of millions of people will be at risk Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new IPCC report says...
Corporate profits = global hunger
A handful of companies stand between millions of small farmers and millions of consumers in the food cycle Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new IPCC report says about climate change and land Feminism and the global fight for food sovereignty...