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.
Wagering on Earth’s future
Ian Angus reviews 'The Bet,' an in-depth account of the overhyped and pointless wager between populationist Paul Ehrlich and libertarian Julian Simon.
The Myths of ‘Green Capitalism’
Brian Tokar: A system based on the accumulation of capital without restraint will require unsustainable growth, however cleverly we measure our ecological footprint.
Kenya evicts Indigenous people for forest offset scam
The UN and World Bank are supporting the forced expulsion of the Sengwer people from their ancestral lands. The land-grabbing REDD scheme must be stopped.
Ecosocialist online discussion group launched
Looking for an international email forum devoted to ecosocialist ideas and activities?
Debate: Two tactics in the fight against climate change
Should climate activists limit their demands to what's possible under capitalism? Nick Davenport responds to Robin Hahnel's support of carbon trading.
Again and again, capitalism fouls things up
Barry Sheppard: Toxic spills in two West Virginia rivers show that the capitalist system itself is an enemy of the natural environment humanity depends on
Bolivian VP to European Left: Fight on!
"What we need is not a Europe that watches from a distance what is happening in far off places of the world but a Europe that lights up again the destiny of the continent and of the world."
White House on Keystone XL: Wrong questions, wrong answers
How can Obama suggest that the test for approving the XL pipeline is whether it accelerates our ride to climate hell, death, and disaster?
How the U.S. exports global warming
While Obama talks of a clean, green future, America's oil and coal corporations are racing to position the country as the planet's top dirty-energy dealer.
The contradictions and limits of localism
Can co-ops and transition towns transform the world? The author of No Local explains why local counter-institutions won't lead to revolutionary change.
Green must be more than organic food and driving a Prius
Artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph says that if we don’t connect it to race and class, then environmentalism will never win a hearing from people who face racism and poverty every day.
Reinvent transport for reduced emissions and more jobs
Cutting greenhouse gas emissions will throw millions of people out of work! That claim has made many working people reluctant to support action to slow climate change. But is it true?