We're glad Trump lost, but Biden's win brings no joy. It's time for real alternatives.
Two-Party Dead-End
Bidenfreude:
Despite Covid Slowdown
Upper Ocean Temperatures Set a New High Record in 2020
Over 90% of the excess heat due to global warming is absorbed by the oceans
Book Review
Amber Waves: A Biography of Wheat
It took thousands of years for wheat to evolve from a wild grass into a highly productive source of food. Can it help address global hunger in our time?
Exceptions have become the norm
Capitalism and Catastrophe
Covid and climate change aren't aberrations: they are aspects of the system's permanent global crisis.
Climate Crisis, by the numbers
Record number of billion-dollar disasters struck U.S. in 2020
An extraordinary year for extreme weather and climate events in the United States.
Worsening Covid’s wrath
Ecosystem Destruction Fueled the Pandemic. Pollution Makes It Worse.
A small increase in long-term exposure to polluted air leads to a large increase in Covid-19 death rates.
Movement Building in 2021
New Challenges in South Africa’s Fight for Climate Justice
Patrick Bond: The deaths of four frontline KwaZulu-Natal activists and another oil refinery explosion in Durban define the battlegrounds in 2021
Reading Matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, December 2020
Winter Solstice reading for reds and greens
Movement Building
Ecosocialism: A Vital Synthesis
Pioneer ecosocialist Michael Löwy on the red-green alternative to the unsustainable status quo, and the movement for a Great Transition
Révolution écosocialiste
A strategic perspective for uniting ecosocialists in Québec
Newly formed 'Révolution écosocialiste' organization proposes a green, ecosocialist and democratic program for building a mass movement in the 21st century
Gross inequality
1% own 43% of global wealth, while billions have no wealth at all
New research shows inequality remains stark, between rich and poor countries, and between households within countries
'Relentless March'
12 Major Impacts of Global Climate Change in 2020
The World Meteorological Organization's draft report on global climate change in 2020 describes continued deterioration on all fronts
A network of global rifts
Facing the Anthropocene: An Update
Recent scientific work strengthens and extends the arguments in Ian Angus’s pathbreaking book on fossil capitalism and the crisis of the Earth System
Climate crisis
Greenhouse gases set new record, despite Covid-19 lockdown
Top meteorologist: only a complete transformation of our industrial, energy and transport systems can stop climate change
Reading for reds and greens
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, November 2020
Seven new books and four book reviews. Engels at 200; Capitalist Crime; Eleanor Marx on England; Wheat’s Biography; Early Capitalist Farming; Renewable Energy; Sinking Middle Class
Capitalism kills
Tyson managers laid bets on how many workers would get Covid-19
Lawsuit says Tyson Foods ordered sick workers to stay on the line, while bosses ran a pool on how many would contract the virus
Essential Reading
The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology
John Bellamy Foster's brilliant recovery of a century of ecological and socialist thought will inform, enable, and inspire a new generation of reds and greens
Book Review
A People’s Guide to Capitalism
It's not easy to explain Marx's economics in a clear, straightforward and entertaining way, but Hadas Thier succeeds brilliantly. Nobody has done it better.
Red & Green Reads
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, October 2020
Five book announcements and three book reviews. Origin of Covid-19; History of pollutions; Collapse of US farming; Capital today; Social justice and the environment
Triple Crisis in the Anthropocene Ocean, Part Three
The Heat of 3.6 Billion Atom Bombs
Continuing Ian Angus’s examination of the ‘deadly trio’ of CO2-driven assaults on ocean life. Part three: ocean warming and permanent heatwaves