Has the left been unduly critical of carbon taxes as a means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions? Is James Hansen’s “fee and dividend” scheme the kind of practical and concrete plan we should endorse and promote?
Why markets can’t fix the climate crisis
Video from Australia: Socialist Alliance member Gemma Weedall speaking at the Marxism 2014 conference.
Conference to examine capital and climate change
Call For Papers: Climate change stream at the Eleventh London Historical Materialism Conference, November 2014
Will capitalism’s death wish kill us all?
Global warming is driving us towards a precipice, but capitalism just keeps on with business as usual. Why won't our rulers slam on the brakes?
Confronting Injustice: A must-read book for today’s activists
Ian Angus reviews an essential book, written by an activist for activists, a practical contribution to building real struggles for a better world. "Confronting Injustice is a powerful call for collective action against the social causes of poverty...
Population control group uses Earth Day to attack immigrants
Population controllers show their bigotry, again
Air pollution hits people of color hardest
Study shows that non-white people in U.S. inhale 38 percent higher levels of air pollution than whites
Socialism is not possible on a ruined planet
Socialist scientist: Radicals who deny the threat of environmental catastrophe are dead wrong. Stopping capitalist ecocide must be a central goal for the left the 21st century.
Quoting Bookchin
"The assumption that what currently exists ...."
Avoiding the capitalist apocalypse
In 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century,' Thomas Piketty says capitalism has avoided a Marxist apocalypse. This misrepresents Marxism, and ignores the ever-increasing degradation and destruction of life on Earth, and the looming threat of climate...
Tutu: We must boycott the fossil fuel industry
Archbishop and Nobel Prize winner Desmond Tutu calls for international action against companies that are destroying our planet's future.
China: Mass protests challenge polluters
Resistance to rapid industrialization and encroachment by poisonous industries has led to pitched battles between residents and police in many cities.
Climate crisis: The rich don’t want solutions
The latest IPCC report inadvertently shows that corporations and their governments are determined to avoid protecting the poor from climate change.
A Marxist view of ecology and human history
Simon Butler says Martin Empson's 'Land and Labour' is a very readable Marxist history of humanity's relationship with the rest of nature and an important contribution to the movement for ecosocialism
World peasant movement: Solidarity with Venezuela!
Via Campesina condemns right wing efforts to destabilize Venezuela and reverse the immense achievements of the Bolivarian Revolution.
What did that ‘NASA-funded collapse study’ really say?
A critical evaluation of a widely reported study that supposedly proves that only social equality and a rapid shift to renewables can prevent the collapse of western civilization.
IPCC: The world is not ready for climate change
Now on the C&C website: IPCC report on impacts and risks of climate change. "The world is ill-prepared for risks from a changing climate."
Air pollution kills 7 million a year
World Health Organization names the biggest environmental health threat: over 12% of all deaths are caused by the air we breathe
Climate change drove extreme weather in 2013
World Meteorological Organization confirms: there is no standstill in global warming. Thirteen of the fourteen warmest years on record have all occurred in the 21st century, and each of the last three decades has been warmer than the previous one.
Plastic Plague
Book Review: 'Plastic Ocean' is an important contribution to broad awareness of the ever-growing conflict between our systems of production and the circle of life.