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.
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."