Ecosocialist Resources

The Ecosocialist Resources column is published at irregular intervals. It features links to new articles, reports, talks and videos that are relevant to Climate & Capitalism’s mission and goals.

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  • Ecosocialist resources, 67 Can Borneo’s tribes survive the biggest environmental crime? … Big Oil’s carbon counterattack … Lima’s roadmap for global burning … Post-quake Haiti: Left in the rubble … Conserving, restoring and enhancing Africa’s soils ---READ-->>
  • Ecosocialist resources, 66 Greening Malthus … The Cuban Revolution and its economic reforms; … 2 degree target means 80% of coal is unburnable … People pushed out of Ethiopia’s fertile farmland … The death of international development ---READ-->>
  • Ecosocialist resources, 65 Vandana Shiva replies to New Yorker magazine; Securing forests, securing rights; GMO contamination; Cost of climate change adaptation rises; Ecological civilization debate in China ---READ-->>
  • Ecosocialist resources, 64 Work and ecological justice; Nuclear in Bolivia; Indigenous voices on Peruvian deforestation; Renewables are not enough; Carbon trading or regulation? ---READ-->>
  • Ecosocialist resources, 63 Quebec vs tar sands; Systemic roots of ebola; Class interests in economics; SPGB vs ecosocialism; Naomi Klein and extractivism; Trends in Third world debt ---READ-->>
  • Ecosocialist resources, 62 Why capitalism must grow; The cost of climate change; Banks invest $80 billion into coal; Major aquifers in trouble; Global wealth inequality gets much worse ---READ-->>
  • Ecosocialist resources, 61 Naomi Klein’s most important book; Sea levels at 6000 year high; 2014 may be hottest year yet; Tar sands battle gaining strength; The other CO2 problem ---READ-->>
  • Ecosocialist resources, 60 The problem is capitalism; New York Climate Summit; America’s ridiculously rich; Education in Cuba; Fracking to disaster; Marx and modern agriculture ---READ-->>
  • Ecosocialist resources, 59 One million climate jobs; Trade union strategy against climate change; Natural gas won’t curb carbon emissions; Turkish translation of Marxism & Ecology ---READ-->>
  • Ecosocialist resources, 58 Non-stop warming from now on; Choking the oceans with plastic; Leaked IPCC report warns of irreversible impacts; Global warming pause is a myth ---READ-->>
  • Ecosocialist resources, 57 The class politics of pipeline resistance; Environmentalists must stop ignoring the needs of poor nations when combating global warming; Tar sands, trade rules and the gutting of human rights for corporate; Communal lands – Theater of operations for the counterinsurgency ---READ-->>
  • Ecosocialist resources, 56 Israel vs Palestine’s environment; The Economist and renewable energy; South/South collaboration; Central America braces for drought-linked food crisis ---READ-->>
  • Ecosocialist resources, 55 U.S. militarism’s toxic legacy; Capitalism and climate change; How Bolivia legislates with the people; Impact of Canadian mining; Biomass deception ---READ-->>
  • Ecosocialist resources, 54 Will we lose the climate endgame; Reality, risks and response to climate change; Climate change is violence; Leave Australian coal in the ground ---READ-->>
  • Ecosocialist resources, 53 BP’s ongoing threat to the Great Lakes; What happened in Lac Megantic; To stop climate change, stop capitalism; Michael Lowy on ecosocialism ---READ-->>
  • Ecosocialist Resources, 52 Climate and growth in Vietnam; Tar sands in Quebec; Obama’s emissions plan; Oil-by-rail on trial; Nuclear energy; Climate change and carbon trading ---READ-->>
  • Ecosocialist resources, 51 Koch brothers dominate Alberta tar sands; Confusing date labels = food waste; Extreme energy threatens Great Lakes; For democratic control of food; Environment vs. Equity is a fake choice; 25% of emissions come from just 43 companies ---READ-->>
  • Ecosocialist resources, 50 Essential reading for ecosocialists: Join the global climate convergence; Pollution, class and race; Energy democracy; Fossil fuel workers; UN climate fund; Crude exports; Keystone XL impact ---READ-->>
  • Ecosocialist resources, 49 Articles and talks on challenges facing the left today — Why I’m an ecosocialist; From occupy to climate justice; Genes and genius; Ecosocialist brakes; Environmental unionism; Relaunching Ecosocialism Canada ---READ-->>
  • Ecosocialist Resources, 48 Ending the world; Fossil fuel subsidies; Monarch butterflies; Methane and climate change ---READ-->>