As an island nation, Cuba is particularly vulnerable to climate change. Project Life (Tarea Vida), now being implemented across the country, aims to increase the country's resilience and minimize future damage
Resilience
Science for the People
Why we are marching for science
Statement on the second annual March for Science on Saturday, April 14, 2018. "We need to transform the role of science in our world."
Author Focus
Sustainable Food Systems: An interview with Robert Biel
Conventional farming destroys the complex soil ecosystem and ultimately the soil itself, so the risk of not changing it is too great. (Free book available for download)
Corporate liars exposed
Shell knew about climate threat decades ago
Secret documents reveal that the giant oil company's scientists warned executives about the global impact of fossil fuels as early as 1981
Reading matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, April 2018
Six new books for reds and greens ... climate change and disease ... capitalist power and the planet's future ... brain, body, and environment ... oceanic art and science ... essential fungi and life ... the political economy of water.
ocean destruction
Can information technology save global fisheries?
Masses of new data reveal where fish are being captured and by whom, and what determines fishing schedules. Will this information lead to sustainable fishing, so long as profit rules?
Discussion
Ecosocialism and consumerism
Commodity accumulation leads people to identify with the means of destruction. We must aim to disintegrate links in the chain of capital reproduction.
Book Review
14 Billion Years of Revolutionary Change
‘Quarks to Culture’ is an important but flawed account of emergence in history, of 12 major transitions that created the world we live in, from the Big Bang to the Geopolitical State.
The movement we need
Andreas Malm: Revolutionary Strategy in a Warming World
How can climate justice activists stop capitalism's drive to catastrophe? The author of Fossil Capital considers lessons from past revolutions and proposes an action program for today.
Sengwer people attacked
Conservation as genocide: REDD versus Indigenous rights in Kenya
Neo-colonial ‘developmentalist’ forces with a green sheen are evicting and murdering people in the guise of conservation and climate change mitigation
New books for reds and greens
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, March 2018
Six new books on the science for the people movement, health care under capitalism, the criminalizing of poverty, Yemen in crisis, the origins of everything, and communism and democracy
Le Devoir
Uniting ecology and revolution: ‘Facing the Anthropocene’ featured in leading Québec newspaper
Le Devoir, the francophone newspaper of record in Canada, reviews new French translation of Facing the Anthropocene, and interviews its author, Ian Angus
Tramples Indigenous rights
Site C Dam: BC NDP fails major environmental test
The government's decision to build the dam makes it abundantly clear that the struggle to defend indigenous rights and the environment must be built outside of parliament
Low-impact fishers demand
Electrical pulse fishing: Switch it off now!
Will the EU ban technology that electro-shocks fish into nets before bottom-dwelling fish in the North Sea are driven to extinction?
Interview with Zafer Ülger
Ecological crisis and capitalism in Turkey today
Turkish socialist describes growing understanding that Marx's ideas on ecology are important, and that the oppression of labor, women and oppressed peoples is not separate from the crisis of nature and ecosystems
Facing the Anthropocene
‘A contribution to a genuinely materialist ecology’
Éric Pineault’s preface to the French edition of Facing the Anthropocene: “Ian Angus offers a critique of capitalist modernity based on a vision of liberation shaped by the recognition of substantial and real ecological limits”
apocatopia? utopalypse?
China Miéville: The Limits of Utopia
Utopias are necessary. But not only are they insufficient: they can be part of the system, the bad totality that organises us, warms the skies, and condemns millions to peonage on garbage scree.
Energy poverty
Renewables plan would leave world’s poorest in the dark
Converting to renewables isn't enough. The majority of the world’s people will be denied a good quality of life unless their energy sources increase substantially
Reading, red and green
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, February 2018
Five important books on famines and world hunger, on Ebola and other deadly epidemics that spread from animals to people, and on the pesticide poisons in our food.
Environmental philosophy
New materialism: ‘Idealism of the most useless sort’
Following my review of The Progress of This Storm, a reader comments on a philosophical fad that is 'burning through academia faster than a forest fire'