'Like Apartheid.' Tanzanian pastoralists expelled from traditional lands, denied voting rights
Systemic Discrimination
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
Bird Flu
For wildlife, the next pandemic is already here
Disease from megafarms has killed millions of wild birds and mammals
Indicators Report
Temperature rise ‘unprecedented in the instrumental record’
1.3°C jump in 2023; emissions budget shrinking fast
READING FOR REDS & GREENS
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, June 2024
Unequal epidemics, biotech in Africa, capitalist greed, climate history, fracking, and corporate crime
WHO REPORT
COVID wiped out 10 years of life expectancy gains
Global life expectancy falls back to 2012 level; Americas and SE Asia hit hardest
Review
Mythmaking 101: What went wrong with capitalism?
Did big government, monopoly power, and easy money end competitive capitalism's golden age?
Big Oil Reality Check
Oil and gas giants promise climate action, but double down on drilling
All announced energy transition policies are 'insufficient' or 'grossly insufficient'
For the Commons
Global people’s movements are leading the fight for our planet
A conversation with Ashley Dawson, author of Environmentalism from Below
Corporate Killers
Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues. Part 5: The Pandemic Machines
New zoonotic diseases are inextricably connected to the industrialization of poultry, pigs and cattle