Reading matter that really matters. Seven new books on how the world works, from cells to imperialism
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Whitewash and Greenwash
World Bank is no friend of working people or the planet
Policies facilitate the upward distribution of wealth, regardless of human and environmental cost
'Net Zero' isn't enough
Even with emission cuts, 2º heating is likely by 2054
AI system says climate will warm faster than promised by Paris Agreement
Survival of the Richest
Top 1% grab twice as much new wealth as everyone else combined
Oxfam study shows extreme wealth and extreme poverty are increasing simultaneously, worldwide
Reading that Matters!
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, January 2023
Start the new year right with these important new books for red-greens and green-reds
New Research
90% of world’s people to face combined extreme heat and drought
Compound threats will most severely affect poor people and rural areas
Breakthrough?
Practical nuclear fusion is still just hype
Don't believe the headlines: there's much less happening than pro-fusion pundits claim
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf: The Best of 2022
Ian Angus selects his favorite red and green books from the past year
Reading matters
Degrowth and the end of capitalism
Book review: A powerful polemic against capitalism’s planetary destruction, and an engaging look at the degrowth movement
Rest in Power
A great loss for ecosocialism
John Molyneux, 1948-2022
Essential Reads
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, December 2022
Six important new books on fungi and racism and building socialism and wheat and more
Fighting for Life
Hugo Blanco: ‘Social movements in defense of our territories are our hope’
Peruvian peasant leader on the pain and hope of indigenous struggles
Emitters win again
COP27 achieved nothing. No surprise.
Another in a long line of meaningless UN climate meetings
Billionaire Arrogance
Food, Farming, and Africa: An Open Letter to Bill Gates
Food sovereignty activists challenge a wealthy white man’s flawed assumptions, hubris, and ignorance
MST Calls for Action
‘Capital’s attack on nature endangers humanity’
Brazilian peasant leader: Build a global movement to save humanity and our common home!
Reading Matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, November 2022
Six new books and six recent essays: important reading for reds and greens
WMO report
The hottest eight years on record
Sea level rise accelerates, European glacier melt shatters records, extreme weather causes devastation
Climate Talks
COP27: Fiddling while the world burns
Effective action must replace talk, delay and false solutions
Book review
Slouching towards utopia, or hurtling towards disaster?
Top economist's paean to capitalism glosses over gross inequality, wars, and ecological destruction
Climate Justice
After the floods, Pakistan needs reparations, not charity
The people of Pakistan are the latest victims of a global crisis to which they have contributed almost nothing