It would be criminal if political criticisms keep the organized left from supporting and joining the Extinction Rebellion campaign. Three articles from the British left ...
Unprecedented actions
Reading Matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, April 2019
Five new books. Marine disease rises; Energy, food, nature, and the future; Civilizations and planet; Political economy of carbon; Understanding microbiome science
Metabolic rifts
Nitrogen Crisis: A neglected threat to Earth’s life support systems
Part One of a discussion of the disruption of the global nitrogen cycle by an economic system that values profits more than life itself.
respect traditional owners
End human rights abuses in forest conservation
“The National Park model of excluding indigenous peoples and local communities is fundamentally flawed. We have witnessed countless examples of human rights abuses in conservation projects.”
A Red-Green Manifesto for the 21st Century
No shortcuts: The climate revolution must be ecosocialist
Only a mass socialist, feminist, internationalist, pro-peasant, anti-racist, indigenous, and anti-colonial movement can save humanity
Permafrost melting?
Yukon temperatures are the highest in 13,600 years
Warming of over 2 degrees Celsius is above the global average and well above the average of the rest of the Arctic region
Book review
Biofuels: A pseudo-green scam that only enriches agribusiness
Ethanol and biodiesel boost corporate profits while doing nothing to solve the world's growing social and environmental crises
Book Review
New contributions to the theory and practice of Marxist Ecosocialism
Michael Löwy reviews two important books for ecosocialists: 'Karl Marx's Ecosocialism' by Kohei Saito, and 'Red-Green Revolution' by Victor Wallis.
The transition we need, 2
How would a revolutionary government protect the environment?
There is an enormous unused human potential waiting to be drawn into the job of saving the ecosphere. How can it be mobilized?
The transition we need, 1
Carbon pricing and new technology won’t stop climate change
We need truly radical measures, and ultimately a different kind of government with the political will to lead, coordinate and consolidate the transition
Metabolic rift
Broiler chickens: The defining species of the Anthropocene?
Forget jokes about crossing the road. New research identifies chickens as a vivid symbol of the transformation of the biosphere in our time
climate debt
Rich countries must pay for cyclone devastation in southern Africa
Climate change, caused by industrialized rich countries, is responsible for the disaster now unfolding in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi
movement building
Help relaunch Science for the People magazine!
Climate & Capitalism supports the Kickstarter campaign to re-establish Science for the People as a powerful voice for radical science
Global links
3-5°C rise now ‘locked-in’ for the Arctic
UN report says emission cuts will not stop Arctic devastation or worldwide sea level rise
Healthy people, healthy planet
Defining a safe operating space for food systems in the Anthropocene
A food system revolution is urgently needed, to provide healthy diets for all while preventing irreversible damage to the Earth System.
New books for reds and greens
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, March 2019
Where climate change may lead, the global water crisis, Europe’s Little Ice Age, the human costs of Haiti’s unending catastrophes, against constructing nature
Perspectives
If capitalism must end, what should replace it?
By keeping these simple ideas in mind in all our struggles, we can begin to create a world worthy of our best instincts and desires
Movement Building
Guiding principles for an Ecosocialist Green New Deal
Break the power of capitalists and guarantee a vibrant natural world that is home for humanity and all forms of life, for many generations to come.
Book Review
Good intentions won’t bring climate justice
Mary Robinson wants change, but her commitment to global elites prevents her from confronting the system that causes and maintains global injustice.
Movement Building
Illusion or Advance? Ecosocialists debate the ‘Green New Deal’
Activists from System Change Not Climate Change discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the Green New Deal proposal, and how the left should respond.