Land and Labour: A new book explores humanity's contradictory relationship with the environment: our destructive role, and our potential for positive change
Philippines eyewitness: devastation, solidarity and hope
In the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, ecosocialist Tony Iltis reports from the ruins of Tacloban City, one of the most neglected areas in the Philippines.
Climate politics must be as radical as the climate crisis
To respond to the climate emergency, our politics must be as radical as our reality.
On the nature and causes of environmental violence
"We need a much broader definition of violence than is allowed for by limiting its meaning to a physical and immediate brutal act of aggression, and one that includes an environmental dimension. "
Ecosocialist panel on climate change strategies
Video of talks and discussion at a public forum on "Strategies to Stop Climate Change" hosted by the Vancouver Ecosocialist Group, in Vancouver, BC, on December 3
Yuen and Angus debate ‘environmental catastrophism’
Replying to a critique in Monthly Review, Eddie Yuen says Ian Angus "misses my central problematic of politicization." Angus says Yuen's response displays "the most debilitating of common leftist neuroses."
Breaking news! Lower income = lower consumption
Hold the presses! Economists make shocking discovery!
BRICS lessons in (un)sustainable urbanization
Patrick Bond says the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) economies are increasingly polluted and deadly. Much more damage will be done, and multifaceted resistance must likewise strengthen.
Socialists debate nuclear, 4: A green syndicalist view
Continuing our discussion of nuclear energy, Steve Ongerth of the IWW says it's no coincidence that many of the same forces that are fighting to deny climate change and hold back renewables are also pushing nuclear power.
Socialists debate nuclear, 3: Unsafe, unaffordable, unnecessary
Continuing our discussion on atomic energy. Chris Williams says nuclear is no solution to global warming — it's dangerous, expensive, and can't be deployed quickly enough.
UN climate talks go nowhere, again
At the climate talks in Warsaw, rich countries stalled, poor countries walked out, and climate justice activists chanted 'The Philippines, Pakistan, New Orleans: Change the System, Not the Climate.'
Can reforms stop climate change?
Monthly Review replies to Christian Parenti: Realistic climate politics are not reformist politics. Immediate reforms are needed, but there will be no real solution without truly revolutionary social change.
Learning to live in the anthropocene
The Anthropocene epoch requires us to rage against the few anthropods who are making a killing off of the extraction and burning of fossil fuels at the expense of the human race.
Haiyan, capitalism and the climate
Typhoon Haiyan shows once again the urgency of replacing capitalism with a society based on the rational, democratic use of resources in the interest of people and planet.
Historic gains for Denmark’s Red-Green Alliance
After tripling their vote in municipal elections, Danish ecosocialists now have elected representatives in all parts of the country.
Canada, Australia, Japan: Climate change saboteurs
As continents burn and extreme weather accelerates, three of the world's richest countries are leading the fight to do nothing about greenhouse gas emissions
Socialists debate nuclear, 2: Still no nukes!
Michael Friedman says our primary task is not to offer technological solutions to capitalist ills, but to offer social solutions that incorporate the technologies most amenable to our social goals. Nuclear doesn't fit the bill.
Nuclear power: For a respectful and thoughtful discussion
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Ulrich Beck: ‘Ecological crisis is a breach of fundamental rights’
A key insight from the author of 'Risk Society'
Corporate power blocks global energy transition
A new report shows why an energy revolution is needed, and identifies the powerful forces that stand in the way.