Despite pandemic shutdowns, atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane levels surged in 2020
Greenhouse Gas
The First Cod War
Intensive Fishing and the Birth of Capitalism, Part 3
How England’s government-licensed pirates stole the Newfoundland fishery from Europe’s largest feudal empire
Rising Waters
Tipping points confirmed for massive Antarctic glacier
A small rise in ocean temperature may trigger catastrophic collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Six More Books
Ecosocialist Bookshelf March 2021, Part Two
Marx on stealing wood, Human development in the Anthropocene, Solar energy, Nature dialogs, and two on food
Overfishing
Protect fish to produce more food and reduce greenhouse gas
New research confirms that reducing fishing is the best way to get more benefits from the oceans.
Book Review
Can ‘ethical investing’ save the world?
Superbanker Mark Carney quotes Oscar Wilde on value and price, but ignores his socialist conclusions
Reading matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, March 2021
Six new books that are worth reading ... and one that isn't
Green Investments?
The financialization of environment protection
Pollution markets and green finance are forms of profit accumulation, not practical tools for sustainable development.
Newfoundland = New Found Fish
Intensive Fishing and the Birth of Capitalism, Part 2
While treasure fleets carried silver to Spain, far more ships were carrying men, fish and whale oil across the North Atlantic.
Book Review
GMO Soy, Popular Resistance, and Corporate Power
Why does GMO soy dominate Argentine agriculture? 'Seeds of Power' exposes the forces that have overwhelmed voices of resistance.
Book Review
The Ministry for the Future: A passionate call to save the earth
Kim Stanley Robinson's new novel delivers a powerful vision of Earth in crisis and Earth transformed, but fails as a program for change
UN REPORT
Action Needed Now to Solve Triple Emergency
Urgent appeal to end the 'senseless and suicidal' war on nature by transforming social and economic systems
Deadly heat
Global Ice Melt: Much Faster Than Predicted
Glaciers are disappearing up to twice as fast as previous studies estimated, with disastrous effects on many communities
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Lithium, Batteries and Climate Change
The transition to green energy does not have to be powered by destructive and poisonous mineral extraction.
Reading matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, February 2021
Pandemic Century; Outlaw Ocean; America’s Dirty Secret; Deep Carbon; Clean Energy; Another End of the World
Commodity cod & factory ships
Intensive Fishing and the Birth of Capitalism, Part 1
Beginning a series on the role of fishing in the birth and spread of capitalism, and the role of capitalism in today’s mass extinction of ocean life.
Book Review
Are UN climate talks leading to a global dictatorship?
Climate Leviathan warns that a worldwide imperial state is on the agenda, but provides no credible arguments or evidence.
A practical legal maxim
‘The health of the people should be the supreme law’
An ancient principle of justice points to solutions for today’s four-fold mega-crisis
Public Meeting, February 6
Crisis in the Amazon: A Planetary Challenge
Can the world's most important rain forest be saved?
Reading for reds & greens
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, Jan. 2021
Capitalism and Community; Engels and Nature; After Covid-19; The Marx Revival; For Degrowth; Super Polluters; How to Blow Up a Pipeline.