Ecosocialist Resources, published monthly (more or less) in Climate & Capitalism, links to articles, reports, talks and videos that are relevant to our mission
Ecosocialist resources, July 2015
Archive | Biodiversity
Ecosocialist resources, May 2015
Ecosocialist Resources, published monthly in Climate & Capitalism, links to articles, reports, talks and videos that are relevant to our mission.
Ecosocialist bookshelf, April 2015
Grabbing back … A world to build … The anthropology of utopia … We make our own history … Red skin, white masks … Dodging extinction … Plebeian power
Did early humans wipe out most large mammals?
In ‘The Sixth Extinction,’ Elizabeth Kolbert accepts the claim that overkill by early humans led to the extinction of many large mammals. That charge is politically motivated and there is little evidence to support it.
The Sixth Extinction: Are humans the enemy?
Book Review: Elizabeth Kolbert’s best-selling account of mass extinctions blames human nature, ignoring the crucial role of capitalism’s relentless search for growth and accumulation.
Bolivia condemns UN's pro-market biodiversity policy
Diego Pacheco, head of the Bolivian delegation to CBD: “Everything connected with nature is being commodified, putting at risk the livelihoods of indigenous and local people, and of the common goods.”
Nature’s matrix: Linking agriculture, conservation and food sovereignty
An important book argues that conservationists who focus on creating nature preserves are undermining their own cause. To truly protect biodiversity, environmentalists must support the global struggle of peasant farmers for human rights, land, and sustainable agriculture.
UN biodiversity plan: neoliberal measures to commodify nature
Acción Ecológica is gathering signatures for this letter, in advance of the Global Dialogue Seminar on Scaling up Finance for Biodiversity, to be held in Quito, Ecuador, March 6-9 ++++++++ Open letter to the secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the governments of Japan, India, Norway, Sweden and Ecuador On 6 to 9 March 2012 […]
Climate change impact: 11% of species extinct by 2100
Human-caused climate change could become responsible for hundreds-of-thousands if not millions of species vanishing from the Earth (more…)
Biodiversity: The agreement that isn't
Everyone agrees that the new declaration on biodiversity is a triumph. Just one snag: it doesn’t seem to exist. And if it does, it won’t help the natural world. (more…)