"We don’t know how long we have before climate change goes from dangerous to extremely dangerous, but we know that continuing with business as usual makes such a shift increasingly likely."
Earth System in Crisis
Explaining the Anthropocene:
Ecosocialist Notebook
Climate & Capitalism editor on Australian speaking tour, April 30-May 14
C&C will be taking a break while Ian Angus speaks at ecosocialist meetings in seven Australian cities, and launches his new book at the Socialism for the 21st Century conference in Sydney.
Movement building
Can we shop our way to a better world?
Lifestyle change and 'ethical consumerism' are not bridges to effective social change, but barriers to it. To build effective social movements, we must begin by rejecting individualist approaches.
Too Many People?
Population and food sovereignty: An exchange
Ian Angus replies to a reader. If 'overpopulation' is not a primary cause of global environmental problems, what about island nations with limited space and resources?
Movement Building
Climate justice movement shakes
Canada’s New Democratic Party
The impact of the Leap Manifesto at the party convention opens major opportunities to deepen the debate on climate justice and to build an ecosocialist left in and around the NDP.
Book Review
Fishers and plunderers: The tragedy of the commodity
Overfishing, pollution and warming water have pushed the world’s oceans into crisis. If nothing is done the results will be catastrophic for marine systems and the billions of humans who rely on them. To stop this destruction our society has to be...
Movement Building
Canada: Leap Manifesto unites broad forces, builds climate justice campaigns
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has acknowledged shocking details about the violence of Canada’s near past. Deepening poverty and inequality are a scar on the country’s present. And Canada’s record on climate change is a crime against...
Capitalism today
Understanding and confronting the great inequality
Michael Yates explains why inequality matters, how it negatively affects nearly every aspect of our lives, how its underlying causes are rooted in modern capitalism, and why informed radical action by working people, the unemployed and the poor is...
Too Many People?
The real population problem is too many capitalists
"There are too many coal barons, too many oil tycoons, too many politicians who are completely tied to the fossil fuel industry, too many vested interests that don't want change." Radio Adelaide interviews Simon Butler.
Ecosocialism
John Bellamy Foster answers three questions on Marxism and ecology
In the present planetary epoch, the concept of sustainable human development, as a way of conceiving of socialism, represents Marx’s most valuable legacy. No other ecological analysis has such breadth and power.
Environment & Health
Unhealthy environments kill 12.6 million a year
An estimated 12.6 million people died as a result of living or working in an unhealthy environment in 2012 – nearly 1 in 4 of total global deaths, according to new estimates from the World Health Organization.
Climate Change
Why we don’t bother to debate with climate science deniers, illustrated
If people are just confused about climate, they can be reasoned with. The facts are convincing, to anyone who is willing to see. But nothing convinces hard core science deniers, as this 2009 episode from Wiley Miller's comic strip Non Sequitur...
Food and Farming
The True Cost of Cheap Meat
Martin Empson reviews Farmageddon, an important expose of the disastrous failings of the global food system that never quite gets to the bottom of why the agricultural system is like it is.
INTERNATIONAL JOINT STATEMENT
Condemn the murder of Honduran indigenous leader!
Berta Cáceres was a firm defender of small farmers and indigenous peoples’ rights and an inspiring social activist, both at regional and continental level, in defense of social and environmental justice, She was murdered in her home on March 3, by...
Marxist Theory
Imperialism and super exploitation
Michael Roberts reviews John Smith's Imperialism in the 21st Century. This "powerful and searing indictment of the exploitation of billions of people," argues that "the huge low wage proletariat that has emerged in the last 30 years is the key to...
Book Review
The Socialist Alternative: Real Human Development
Cuban scholar Olga Fernández Ríos at the launch of the Cuban edition of Michael Lebowitz' book. "Its publication contributes positively to the defense of the socialist ideal and to the necessary contemporary debate around the construction of the new...
Book Review
Varieties of anti-capitalist economics
In "Economics After Capitalism: A Guide to the Ruins & a Road to the Future," ecosocialist Derek Wall offers an insightful overview of non-orthodox economics, from Social Credit to Marxism to Elinor Ostrom.
Ecosocialist Notebook
Book Announcement: ‘Facing the Anthropocene’
"Bridging the gap between Earth System science and ecological Marxism, Ian Angus examines not only the latest scientific findings about the causes and consequences of the Anthropocene, but also the social and economic trends that underlie the crisis...
Climate Change
Greenhouse Gas Escalation, Illustrated
We don't need models or computer projections. As these graphics show, we already face a planetary emergency, and it is getting more serious every day.
Food and Farming
Cowspiracy: stampeding in the wrong direction
By focusing on veganism to the exclusion of all else, Cowspiracy implies that anyone who eats meat isn't a ‘proper’ environmentalist. This is deeply offensive and elitist, and it harms the movement we need to build.