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.
The Anthropocene Formula
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
Humanitarian crisis
Famine looms as millions go hungry in East Africa
Failed harvests, disease, deteriorating water and pasture conditions, and animal deaths mean 12 million need food aid now, and the situation is fast deteriorating
The Fire This Time
Trump Against the Planet
John Bellamy Foster: This administration is not just a cabal of ignoramuses. Behind the right’s climate denial is the economic reality that seriously combating capitalism’s war on the planet requires the defeat of the system.
Happy birthday, C&C!
Ten years of Climate & Capitalism
Climate and Capitalism, ”an ecosocialist journal, reflecting the viewpoint of environmental Marxism,” was born on January 29, 2007. Ten years and 2500 articles later, C&C's second decade has begun.
Unite and fight
Together, the labor and climate movements can trump Trump
There will inevitably be tensions, but the core interests of workers and the labor movement lie both in defeating Trump and in forestalling the devastating effects of climate change on themselves and their posterity.
Protecting business as usual
Another attack on Anthropocene science
A new conservative campaign aims to discredit efforts to define the new and dangerous stage of planetary history, by driving a wedge between social scientists and the Anthropocene Working Group.
Solidarity appeal
Ecosocialist Terry Townsend Needs Our Help
Long-time ecosocialist activist and writer Terry Townsend is fighting his way back from a massive stroke. You can help ensure that he can participate in political activity again.
Global crisis
Terry Townsend: A Marxist Analysis of Climate Change
From the archive: Why capitalism is destroying the earth, and why socialism is the only path to human survival in this century.
Obscene Inequality
Eight men’s wealth equals half the world
The gap between rich and poor is far greater than previously reported, because the poorest half of the world has even less wealth than previous studies showed
AID IN REVERSE
How poor countries finance the rich
In one year, rich countries take $2 trillion more from poor countries than they return in aid and investment. The countries that brag most about their foreign aid are enabling mass theft.
Envisioning Another World
Creating a society that meets human needs
How might economic needs be met in a post-capitalist society? Is it possible to eliminate markets and make production choices democratically?