Articles Menu
Climate/Capitalism feed
03/04/20
Essays by pioneering ecosocialist Joel Kovel argue that radical social change is the only way to prevent ecocatastrophe
31/03/20
In the Global North it is a ‘novel threat.’ In the South, it extends the common experience of brutal assaults accompanied by waves of illness and death
25/03/20
New research shows that breathing near a site where trash is burned or buried may be dangerous to your health.
24/03/20
“A conscious and collective struggle to stop capitalism’s hell-bound train is our only hope for a better world.”
23/03/20
Instead of providing testing and basic care, the Duterte regime is attacking the poor. Cuba and Vietnam offer examples to emulate.
21/03/20
Six new books to read while maintaining social distance. Yellow Earth; Socialist Practice; Friedrich Engels; Chicken History; Traveling Plants; Coal and Empire
19/03/20
The gap between the world’s richest and poorest countries is 25 percent larger than it would have been without climate change
16/03/20
The last remaining underexploited economy in southeast Asia offers new opportunities for capital accumulation with a green veneer
13/03/20
Study highlights combined effects of extreme heat and humidity, which are especially dangerous to human health
11/03/20
A socialist biologist explains the tight links between new viruses, industrial food production, and the profitability of multinational corporations.
11/03/20
Meteorologists agree that temperatures will continue to rise, and record years like 2019 are becoming the new baseline
07/03/20
David Schwartzman argues that we can’t prevent catastrophic climate change without negative carbon emission technologies
03/03/20
There is no monitoring program for abandoned wells, so they can leak for a long time before emissions are detected and repaired.
01/03/20
“We are protecting our land and the life on it. We have to preserve this life for our children’s future.”
25/02/20
Even if Paris goals are met, climate change could wipe out 20% of species by 2070. If warming is greater, far more will die.
25/02/20
Robbery of nature; Choosing a future; Neoliberal lives; Indigenous resistance; Canadian oil vs the climate; Environmental justice in danger; Agrobiodiversity; Cars and capitalism
18/02/20
What’s behind the breakdown of the relationship between human society and the natural world on which we depend?
13/02/20
Nnimmo Bassey: Africa will face calamitous roasting unless radical social and ecological transformation starts soon
ARTICLES >
