Humans and our hominid ancestors have only lived in the most recent cool period
New research
State of the Climate Report
Climate crisis enters ‘critical and unpredictable new phase’
Scientists warn: 'The future of humanity hangs in the balance.'
RED READS
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, October 2024
New books on oil, empire, the science of death, fungal health threats, degrowth, and socialist strategy
Military boot print
The environmental cost of Israel’s genocide in Gaza
Western support of war means support for unprecedented environmental destruction
Capitalism Kills
Profiteering lets Mpox epidemic spread out of control
Four years on, nothing has been learned from COVID-19
Global Heating
Methane emissions rising faster than ever
Atmospheric concentrations of methane are now the highest they've been for at least 800,000 years
Reading Matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, September 2024
A new translation of Marx’s Capital, the role of animal poop in Earth’s life support systems, and more
Hypocrisy
Deaths at sea: Mass media mourns the rich, ignores the poor
The sinking of a super-yacht gets mass coverage, while thousands of refugees drown in darkness
Systemic Discrimination
Maasai people protest forced evictions and loss of rights
'Like Apartheid.' Tanzanian pastoralists expelled from traditional lands, denied voting rights
Low Carbon Circular Economy
China adopts guidelines to speed green transition
CPC promises 'remarkable results' in all areas of economic and social development by 2030
Global Heating Kills
Extremely hot days double for half a billion children
Across 100 countries, over half of children experience twice as many heatwaves as 60 years ago
A License to Pollute
Laundering Carbon and the New Scramble for Africa
The carbon offset market is an integral part of efforts to prevent effective climate action
READ!
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, August 2024
From Earth's history to global heating to water crises to socialist strategy: Eight new books for radical readers
Climate's death toll
Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues, Part 8: Deadly Heat
‘Climate change has already caused mass death on a pandemic-like scale’
COVID Economics
Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues. Part 7: Wildlife farms and wet markets
Commercial farming of wild animals as luxury food for the rich triggered a global pandemic
Fake Accounting
Carbon offsets are undermining real climate action
Offsetting allows corporations to increase emissions, while getting credit for pseudo-reductions elsewhere
Reading for reds and greens
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, July 2024
Six new books on neoliberal ideology, oceans in crisis, Michigan's water wars, and the corrupt food industry
The Road to Covid
Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues, Part 6: China’s Livestock Revolution
The near-universal adoption of mass production in confined facilities makes pandemics all but inevitable
Debate
Two views (both wrong) on Marx, degrowth, and productivism
Saito versus Huber and Phillips: Opposing views both promote the myth of Marxist Prometheanism
Follow the Money
The biggest banks are financing climate chaos
Since the Paris Agreement, megabanks have invested $6.9 trillion in fossil fuels