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Public Meeting, February 6
Crisis in the Amazon: A Planetary Challenge
Can the world's most important rain forest be saved?
Reading for reds & greens
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, Jan. 2021
Capitalism and Community; Engels and Nature; After Covid-19; The Marx Revival; For Degrowth; Super Polluters; How to Blow Up a Pipeline.
Two-Party Dead-End
Bidenfreude:
Covid-19 in Post-Trump U.S.
We're glad Trump lost, but Biden's win brings no joy. It's time for real alternatives.
Despite Covid Slowdown
Upper Ocean Temperatures Set a New High Record in 2020
Over 90% of the excess heat due to global warming is absorbed by the oceans
Book Review
Amber Waves: A Biography of Wheat
It took thousands of years for wheat to evolve from a wild grass into a highly productive source of food. Can it help address global hunger in our time?
Exceptions have become the norm
Capitalism and Catastrophe
Covid and climate change aren't aberrations: they are aspects of the system's permanent global crisis.
Climate Crisis, by the numbers
Record number of billion-dollar disasters struck U.S. in 2020
An extraordinary year for extreme weather and climate events in the United States.
Worsening Covid’s wrath
Ecosystem Destruction Fueled the Pandemic. Pollution Makes It Worse.
A small increase in long-term exposure to polluted air leads to a large increase in Covid-19 death rates.
Movement Building in 2021
New Challenges in South Africa’s Fight for Climate Justice
Patrick Bond: The deaths of four frontline KwaZulu-Natal activists and another oil refinery explosion in Durban define the battlegrounds in 2021