The Durban diesel disaster polluted rich whites' gardens ... but the cause is systematic discrimination against the black majority.
Naomi Klein on racism and climate change
The reality of an economic order built on white supremacy is the whispered subtext of our entire response to the climate crisis, and it badly needs to be dragged into the light.
Peoples Climate Summit speaks for the exploited and oppressed
Outside the scandalous UN meeting in Lima, an unofficial international assembly met to plan global resistance to capitalism and fight for a model of life in harmony with Nature and Mother Earth.
Danger zone: Earth crosses four planetary boundaries
New research finds biodiversity loss, fertilizer use, climate change and land use have all entered danger zones where rapid environmental decline becomes possible.
Social justice is the only solution to global warming
Forget the UN: South African activist says only an alliance from below, linking unions and social justice movements, can stop capital from destroying planetary life.
Visualizing the global water crisis
Massive transformation of the global water cycle is threatening billions of people around the world. This 3-minute film charts the scale of change.
New ebook shows capitalism and a healthy planet are incompatible
If this book arms people with the information they need to convince more people to join the struggle to save the earth from capitalism, then it will have done its job.
Marx and Nature: A Red and Green Perspective
Essential reading for ecosocialists. Paul Burkett shows that humanity's relationship to nature is central to Marx's critique of capitalism and vision of socialism.
Unsustainable growth can’t be wished away
When it comes to explaining destructive growth, many green writers confuse cause and effect
Oil price panic and climate justice
The fall in oil prices exposes the absurdity of tar sands economics and the need for green job alternatives to both the economic and the climate crisis.
Swiss ‘environmental’ anti-immigrant plan defeated
In referendum, 74% of Swiss voters reject eco-nationalist call for immigration limits and third world population control
Preface to the French edition of ‘Too Many People?’
"A remarkably well-documented book that debunks this overpopulation myth." —Serge Mongeau's preface to Une planète trop peuplée?, in English and French
After Lima fiasco, Bolivia plans global assembly to fight climate change
ALBA backs Bolivian call for international assembly of social movements in 2015; Evo Morales urges "a climate agreement for life, not business and capitalist commercialism"
Top Climate & Capitalism articles for 2014
These Climate & Capitalism articles, both new and old, attracted the most readers in 2014 ...
Capitalist efficiency, illustrated
Behold, the efficiency of capitalism ...
Lima agreement fails humanity and the earth
The result of the Lima conference was yet another decision that weakens international climate rules, fails the planet, and threatens humanity's future.
‘Corporate Conquistadors’ versus climate and humanity
The giant corporations responsible for the climate crisis are also reaping immense profits from the destruction they cause in the poorest communities
Real agrarian reform could double food production
Around the world, giant agribusinesses are displacing the most productive farms. Only by returning land to small farmers can we feed the world's hungry.
Review: Toward climate justice
Brian Tokar analyses the climate crisis and offers solutions framed by Murray Bookchin's Social Ecology theory
CARE: Fertility control won’t solve the climate crisis
Choice, not control: Global aid organization says environmentally-motivated birth control programs undermine women’s rights, and don’t protect the earth