Can the Working Class Change the World? Plagues and the Paradox of Progress. Fishing and Civilization. History of Fossil Fuel. Monopoly Seeds and the Fight to Save Food
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Book Review
A Marxist History of Capitalism
An important work of Marxist history and theory restores class struggle to central place in explaining how capitalism arose and grew, and can eventually be overcome
Science 1; Trump 0
Reply to Trump: Global warming explained in three easy tweets
137 words and two graphs. A climate scientist demolishes the world's leading climate science denier
1.5 degrees
IPCC report puts global warming crisis in Anthropocene framework
Implicitly challenging the weak 2016 Paris Agreement, scientists say climate change is part of the broader global emergency and any responses must reflect that.
Our polluted oceans
Plastic plague intensifies on remote southern islands
Plastic pollution is now reaching some of the most remote areas of Earth. Scientists find 100 times more plastic debris on isolated South Atlantic islands than 30 years ago.
Global Warming Report
IPCC: 1.5° will be bad and 2.0° will be worse, radical change needed NOW
Major report finds that global climate outlook is far worse than previously thought; calls for immediate and sweeping change to prevent catastrophe
Wrong Roads
Half-Earth: A biodiversity ‘solution’ that solves nothing
Proposals to remove all humans from half of the Earth ignore the root causes of the biodiversity crisis and undermine progressive struggles for social justice.
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, October 2018
New books: Essays for Richard Levins ... The Earth is not for Sale ... Defending Howard Zinn ... The Rise of Capitalism ... Degrowth ... Climate Justice ... Below Freezing
Book Review
Will big business destroy our planet?
Corporate giants are driving the world towards environmental disaster. Will self-preservation force them to pull back and end the destruction?
AN APPEAL
Science for the People needs your help!
Climate & Capitalism strongly endorses this appeal. The work SftP does is essential to building a radical, science-based movement, so please help if you can.
The Atomic Genie
Thinking about nuclear: Hard choices that may cost the planet
Some environmentalists want both nuclear power and renewables. Richard Seymour says that's an evasion. We must choose, and the choice isn't easy.
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, September 2018
New books for reds and greens. Three centuries of factories; Holland in the Little Ice Age; Thinking in deep time; Horizontal Gene Transfer; The physics of evolution
Book Review
The Omega Principle: A vicious circle of fish, cattle and capitalism
How a giant industry that plunders the seas for tiny fish is reinforcing unsustainable industrial agriculture
Climate and hunger
Warmer climate = more hungry insects = less food
New research: Each one degree rise in global temperature will increase insect-driven losses to rice, corn and wheat crops by 10 to 25 percent
Book Review
Degrowth considered
The ecological insights of degrowth theory are undermined by blindspots about renewability, agriculture, unalienated labor, and the power of our enemies
On the precipice
To overcome climate paralysis, unite for system change
On the precipice of disaster, we have vast numbers of potential allies. All our differences pale next to the overwhelming urgency of our common task.
Technofixes
Engineering the climate could cost us the earth
Geoengineering is a political technology, part of institutional apparatus that is preventing effective climate action and delaying structural change
Red-Green Perspective
Carrying capacity, technology, and ecomodernist confusion
A radical biologist replies to an ecomodernist who ignores the social roots of environmental crises
Book Review
Ecomodernism and nuclear power: No solution for climate change
In 'Energy: A Human History,' Richard Rhodes trivializes the dangers of nuclear power and plunges into the abyss of ecomodernist technobabble.
John Bellamy Foster:
‘There is still time for an ecological revolution to prevent Hothouse Earth’
We need hundreds of millions of people to mobilize in an independent, revolutionary campaign to reconstitute global production and consumption.