British Columbia’s carbon tax has been held up as a climate success, but an analysis of the province’s emissions under the tax tells another story.
Research Report
The World in 2050
Announcing:
The nearly carbon-free climate justice conference
A three-week discussion of 'The World in 2050: Imagining and Creating Just Climate Futures' has begun on a computer screen near you.
Book Review
Victor Wallis reviews ‘Facing the Anthropocene’
'Ian Angus’s distinctive contribution is to underscore, with his geologically grounded perspective, the need to combine immediate measures of relief with a long-term agenda of transformation.'
Interview
Hannah Holleman on environmental justice and ecological imperialism
"The pace and scale of ecological degradation we confront today is unfathomable without understanding the legacy and persistent realities of ecological imperialism."
Forms of denial
Corporate climate risk is about profit, not fixing the problem
'Like latter-day wizardry, corporate risk calculations suggest that markets and capital can, not only control the natural world, but somehow anticipate it'
We won't be long, but ...
What to read while C&C takes a break
Climate & Capitalism will resume its regular publishing schedule on or about October 24. In the meantime, have you read these top-rated articles from the summer of 2016?
Environmental Justice
If Nature Is Sacred, Capitalism Is Wicked
Under capitalism, everything is a business opportunity. Disasters are not viewed by business leaders as problems to be solved, they are seen as circumstances of which they must take advantage.
Enviro
Is renewable energy really environmentally friendly?
Renewable energy sources may have low CO2 emissions at the point of use, but the mines that make the technology possible are often environmentally destructive
Book Review
‘Anthropocene or Capitalocene?’ misses the point
The authors of this book have very little to say about the Anthropocene, the crisis of the Earth System, or the new global epoch, and most of what they do say is misleading or wrong.
Fossil Capitalism
Ecocide in the Niger Delta
In Nigeria, oil extraction and production has devastating consequences for the people living in the Niger Delta, but those who flee are not protected by the Geneva Convention on Refugees.
U.S. labor brass to pipeline protestors: Drop Dead!
Conservative AFL-CIO leaders support the Dakota Access pipeline, oppose the Standing Rock Sioux campaign to protect land, people and water.
Global change
Two more radical precursors of Anthropocene science
Long before the Anthropocene Working Group reported on the new epoch, Yrjö Haila and Richard Levins argued that global ecohistory entered a new stage sometime after World War II
Book Launch Events
Facing the Anthropocene: September book launch events
Mark your calendars: Ian Angus speaks on 'Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System,' at public meetings in Vancouver, Toronto, and Ottawa
Interview
Video: Ian Angus on the Crisis of the Earth System
Dharna Noor of Real News Network interviews C&C editor Ian Angus about the proposal to declare a new geological epoch, and his new book, 'Facing the Anthropocene.'
Stop the Pipeline!
Enbridge Mercenaries Attack Native American Protesters
Video: Democracy Now! reports from protests against pipeline that would carry about 500,000 barrels of crude per day from North Dakota’s Bakken oilfield
Reading from the left
Book review: How did we get into this mess?
Social and environmental problems are aptly diagnosed in George Monbiot's new book and, more importantly, they are diagnosed with great flair and eloquence.
AWG report
Expert panel: The Anthropocene epoch has definitely begun
Key conclusion of Anthropocene Working Group report to Geological Congress: the ‘Great Acceleration’ in the second half of the 20th century marked the end of the Holocene and the beginning of a new geological epoch.
Interview
Capitalism driving biodiversity loss to point of no return
Ashley Dawson: 'Today's mass extinction crisis is one of the clearest indications we have of the fundamental irrationality and destructiveness of the capitalist system.'
Interview: John Bellamy Foster
Marx and the Earth: Why we wrote an ‘anti-critique’
The German daily Junge Welt interviews John Bellamy Foster on capitalism's destruction of nature, ecological Marxism from Marx's time to the present, and the environmental crisis as a class issue.
Movement Building
Climate justice and the prospect of power
Climate justice activists have not yet found a path to transformational change. That can only emerge from the experiences of all working people here and worldwide, present and past.