Richard Seymour on the world that is being destroyed and environmental melancholy: 'We despair, but we do not submit.'
Sadness and resistance
Interview
‘We need a resistance movement for the planet’
The climate movement is central, but we have to fight on all fronts, combining broad defense of human rights and opposition to war and imperialism, with the fight to save Earth as a place of human habitation.
Book Review
Dead Zone: Where the Wild Things Were
Martin Empson reviews an important book for activists, a frightening examination of the impact of industrial agriculture on the environment, and particularly biodiversity.
Chiapas Conference issues a challenge
Zapatistas urge scientists to join in building a better world
With all the damage that the capitalists have done to the people through their misuse of science, can you create a science that is truly human? Can we work collectively to defend life and humanity?
Carl Schorlemmer
More on the Red Chemist
Carl Shorlemmer's contributions to chemistry were described in this biographical note, published 99 years ago. And there is a statue of him in Germany.
Ecosocialist Notebook
Introducing ‘A Redder Shade of Green’
Ian Angus's new book of 'essential debates at the intersections of socialism and science' will be available soon. Here's what some early readers say about it.
Essential Debates
John Bellamy Foster answers five questions about Marxism and ecology
Can Marxism strengthen our understanding of ecological crises? The author of Marx's Ecology replies to a critic on metabolic rift, sustainable human development, degrowth, population growth, and industrialism.
WMO Report
Global climate broke multiple records in 2016; Extreme conditions continue in 2017
World Meteorological Organization says 2016 made history, with a record global temperature, exceptionally low sea ice, and unabated sea level rise and ocean heat. Extreme weather and climate conditions continue in 2017.
The Forgotten Legacy of Carl Schorlemmer
Marx and Engels and the Red Chemist
Accounts of Marx and Engels’s lives ignore Carl Schorlemmer's influence on their studies of the natural sciences. It is time to acknowledge his rightful place in the socialist tradition.
emissions crisis
Carbon dioxide levels now rising at record speed
CO2 growth rate sets new record in 2015-16. Increase in the past ten years is 100 to 200 times as fast as the increase that ended the last ice age
The Anthropocene Formula
The terrifying mathematics of the Anthropocene
For four billion years, one formula summarized global change. That has changed in just four decades, and if we don't act quickly, human civilization may not survive.
Interview with Daniel Tanuro
‘Ecosocialism is more than a strategy, it’s a project for civilization’
"Climate change is far more than a technological issue. It poses the fundamental question of a global alternative to this mode of production."
Famine and Disease
Countries on Trump’s ban list face world’s biggest humanitarian crisis since 1945
Twenty million people face imminent death from starvation and famine. Many more will suffer and die from disease. These are the people that Trump is targeting.
Climate Injustice
Heatwave frequency rises twice as fast in the poorest countries
New research proves that the countries least responsible for global warming, those least able to adapt, have already been hit much harder by deadly extremes than rich nations — and the gap is growing
movement building
Climate crisis: There is only one way out
Climate catastrophe can only be averted if people around the globe unite in the biggest, broadest, most effective global social movement the world has ever seen
Reading from the Left
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, March 2017
Three important new books on the growing global environmental crisis, and two that mark the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution ... Peter Wadhams, Razmig Keucheyan, Orrin Pilkey, Neil Faulkner, Paul Le Blanc, David Mandel
Left Renewal
Socialist tendency formed in Australian Green Party
"We need an internationalist perspective of climate justice that recognizes that we are all a part of the global ecosystem. We can only resolve climate change by achieving climate justice. None of us are free, until we are all free."
Lessons from Galileo
Will scientists rebel against Trumpism?
The call for a March for Science on Earth Day is a major step forward in the fight to reverse Trump's anti-science agenda and to build support for science in the public good.
Ecosocialist Bookshelf
Celebrating Darwin Day: What to read on (and after) February 12
“It is not too great an exaggeration to claim that On the Origin of Species was, along with Das Kapital, one of the two most significant works in the intellectual history of the nineteenth century.”
Ecosocialist Bookshelf
New ecosocialist books coming from MR Press
Essential reading for red-greens and green reds: Monthly Review Press announces new titles by Ian Angus, Kohei Saito, Chris Williams and Fred Magdoff