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.
Food and Farming
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.
COP21
Specter of geoengineering haunts Paris climate deal
To avoid challenging the fossil fuel profiteers, the Paris negotiators bet on untested and dangerous geoengineering technologies.
Capitalist Pollution
Flint’s poisoned water and capital’s second contradiction
The politicians who poisoned the water supply in Flint are as bad as they come, but it's the system they serve that makes such disasters inevitable.
COP21
Essential reading on the Paris climate agreement
The first draft of history: An annotated guide to thirty-four of the best articles on the COP21 Paris Agreement on climate change.
Earth System
Anthropocene Working Group:
Yes, a new epoch has begun
Experts agree: Changes since 1950 rival those that ended the last ice age. The Holocene is over, and the Anthropocene has begun.
Ecosocialism
Top 10 C&C articles of 2015 … and of all time
There are now 2,064 articles on the Climate & Capitalism website. These are the most-read of 2015, and the most-read since 2007. How many have you read?
Climate Justice
Ground zero of climate change
The coastal and island nations of the Asia-Pacific have contributed the least to global climate change, but suffer the most from climate breakdown and disaster capitalism
Video
Film: Scotland’s Landscape of Fear
Liam Young examines the causes of environmental damage in Scotland and the impact communities can have when they take control of their own resources.
Book Review
Why capitalism is addicted to oil and coal
'Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming.' A brilliant Marxist critique of capitalism and the origins of the fossil fuel economy
COP21
Paris climate agreement: a terror attack on Africa
Patrick Bond: Supporters of the climate deal reached at the Paris Conference of Polluters are endorsing a plan that will kill millions
COP21
Seven objections to the Paris climate deal
Oscar Reyes: Hailed as a breakthrough and the beginning of a new world, the COP21 Agreement is long on rhetoric and short on action.
COP21
At COP21, the world agreed to increase emissions
Some countries will reduce emissions a little, but other countries will increase them a lot. You would never know this from UN and media reports.
Food and Farming
Film Review: Are cows destroying the climate?
How not to change the world. 'Cowspiracy' ignores capitalism and rejects Indigenous peoples' concerns, while denouncing everyone who eats meat.