Five new books for green-left activists, on urban climate change, past mass extinctions, tropical rainforests, religious anti-science, and the end of Arctic ice.
Green reading for reds
Thoughts on wild strawberries
What we sow is what we eat
The failure of modern food production derives from the nature of our economic system, which considers everything and everyone a commodity. It doesn’t have to be this way.
What If?
Cholera, Contingency, and Marx’s Drinking Water
Ecosocialist Notebook: A visit to two historic sites in London prompts thoughts about the role of individuals in history, and the possibility that Marxism might never have happened.
Pain-free sustainability?
The green energy cornucopia is 100 percent wishful thinking
Serious energy policy must address overproduction, overconsumption and inequality. Without that, promises of an economy based on 100% renewable energy are misleading and dangerous.
New Ideas
Should the left build an alternative energy commons?
For Discussion: Patricia Mann says that building networks of renewable energy microproduction could be the basis for a mass anticapitalist movement. What do you think?
Inseparable causes
One struggle: For social justice and against climate catastrophe
Climate-related catastrophe is now not just an additional hazard for the world’s poor, but a central factor in their oppression and poverty.
Ecosocialist Bookshelf
What are the essential books on ecosocialism?
HELP WANTED: What books would you include on basic and advanced reading lists for red-greens and green-reds?
Furious torrents
Hurricane Harvey and the Dialectics of Nature
Houston is the city where capitalism's victory over nature is the most complete — and also where nature takes its ultimate revenge
Book Review
In the Anthropocene, environmentalists must join wider battles
In 'Facing the Anthropocene' Ian Angus shows that the earth system crisis originated in specific developments in late capitalism arising out of WWII. He also tells us who our enemies are.
Book Review
Creating an Ecological Society: Living well is the best revolution
The authors’ command of ecology is not limited to Marx’s concept of metabolic rift. They lay out the facts of the eco-crisis and potential cures, minus cant and jargon.
Interview with Fred Magdoff
Capitalism puts profits first, but an ecological society will serve humanity
Fred Magdoff: "Decisions made about production and consumption will emphasize on positive effects on humans and the health of the broader environment, rather than the profits and wealth of a few"
Ian Angus On Air
Radio Interview: Is Capitalism Killing Our Climate?
'Planet Haliburton' is a twice-monthly program on Canoe-FM in Haliburton Ontario. Hosts Greg Roe and Terry Moore interviewed Climate & Capitalism editor Ian Angus on August 14, 2017.
More fake news!
A climate denier’s guide to viewing the eclipse
Science, schmience. Now the elitists want us to buy special glasses. Don't fall for their lies!
Authoritative annual study
Report shows climate records set in 2016. Yes, the world is warming!
The new State of the Climate report confirms that 2016 was as the warmest year in 137 years of record-keeping. Other climate indicators that set new records include greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level, and sea surface temperature.
Reading from green to red
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, August 2017
Six new books on climate change and neoliberalism, movement strategy, surviving the Anthropocene, science and religion, Gaia, and energy security
Global crisis
Video: Ian Angus on the Anthropocene and ecosocialism
We now face the challenge of changing the world in the context of impending environmental disaster on a global scale. That’s reality in our time.
Film Review
Al Gore’s Convenient Infomercial for Green Capitalism
Al Gore, the perfect spokesperson for the liberal approach to climate change, simply cannot see that neoliberal logic prevents our current institutions from addressing the crisis.
Book Review
Marx and Engels on ecology: A reply to radical critics
Paul Burkett and John Bellamy Foster answer left-green critics of ecological Marxism with a detailed study of what the founders of historical materialism actually wrote and thought about humanity's present and future relationship to the earth
A planet transformed
New research shows irreversible changes in England in the Anthropocene
Scientists find irreversible changes that have no precedent in the 4.54 billion years of Earth history, caused by new human-made materials
Water crisis
UN report: Billions lack access to safe water and sanitation
Every year, 361,000 children under 5 years die due to diseases caused by poor sanitation and contaminated water