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Neil Faulkner writing for the Ecologist explores the out of control pandemic and the warning signs we can no longer ignore.
We thought climate catastrophe the main danger. Now we know there is another. A double-whammy ecological crisis threatens collapse into dystopian chaos.
Pathogens, a (...)
The initiative to prepare an ecosocialist conference was taken by two organizations in Switzerland, solidaritéS and the Movement for Socialism.
Our main goal is to bring together individuals and organisations with an ecosocialist orientation in order to reflect together on common demands and (...)
Modelling suggests climate is considerably more sensitive to carbon emissions than thought.
Worst-case global heating scenarios may need to be revised upwards in light of a better understanding of the role of clouds, scientists have said.
Recent modelling data suggests the climate is (...)
1. The end is also a continuation. Even as the coronavirus crisis cuts the feet out from under capitalism while exposing and embodying its horrors, capitalism finds its lifeline in further extraction. Not the extraction of value from workers or of oil from the earth, but of the political (...)
“For the first time, nature becomes purely an object for humankind, purely a matter of utility; ceases to be recognized as a power for itself; and the theoretical discovery of its autonomous laws appears merely as a ruse so as to subjugate it under human needs, whether as an object of (...)
Scientists have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any catastrophic threat and to “tell it like it is.” On the basis of this obligation and the graphical indicators presented below, we declare, with more than 11,000 scientist signatories from around the world, clearly and (...)
With the insurgent activism around climate in the face of crisis, a Marxist book on climate is timely. John Walker reviews Alan Thornett’s book, Facing the Apocalypse: Arguments for Ecosocialism.
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has warned that there are only twelve years left (...)
In this extract from her latest book On Fire, the No Logo author looks at why capitalism and politics have got in the way of addressing the climate crisis.
On a Friday in mid-March, they streamed out of schools in little rivulets, burbling with excitement and defiance at an act of truancy. The (...)
Natalie Hanman - Why are you publishing this book now?
Naomi Klein - I still feel that the way that we talk about climate change is too compartmentalised, too siloed from the other crises we face. A really strong theme running through the book is the links between it and the crisis of rising (...)
Climate change requires major societal change. But how do we ensure this transformation is done in a fair and just manner? John Bellamy Foster—a renowned environmental sociologist and editor of Monthly Review—takes a look at the idea of the Just Transition, arguing that any strategy to save the (...)
Only a mass socialist, feminist, internationalist, pro-peasant, anti-racist, indigenous, and anti-colonial movement can save humanity.
Photo François Dvorak.
The mobilization against climate change continues to build, gaining new social layers beyond the initial circles of environmental (...)
Destructive power of storms likely to increase in future as world warms up.
The climate crisis that is driving sea level rises and more extreme rainfall is making deadly storms like the one that hit southern Africa more severe, according to experts.
Cyclone Idai, the tropical storm that (...)
Editor’s note: Originally posted to Facebook as a result of her high-profile role inspiring the growing youth-led climate strike movement . It appears at Common Dreams, only very slightly edited, with permission of the author.
“I am just a messenger, and yet I get all this hate,” writes (...)
All over the world, thousands of young people are starting to set off spontaneously for the climate. On 17 January, in Brussels, more than 12,000 people went on strike and demonstrated in response to the magnificent appeal made at COP24 by the 15-year-old Swedish high school student Greta (...)
As world leaders finalised the Group of Twenty’s (G20) Agreements in Buenos Aires, Argentina, government and civil society climate representatives started arriving in Katowice, Poland for the 24th Conference of Parties (COP24) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (...)
Richard Smith argues for an emergency plan to meet the climate emergency and “do what the science demands before it’s too late.” This is an abridged version of a paper that will appear in the March 1, 2019 special issue of Real-World Economics Review.[1] I. The IPCC Report “Global Warming of 1.5°C” (...)
Alan Thornett offers an initial assessment of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) special ‘1.5°C’ report published on October 8 on the deepening crisis around climate change [[http://www.ipcc.ch/report/sr15].
The timescale available to do something about global warming and (...)
The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius, released on Monday, is a major advance over previous efforts to alert world leaders and citizens to the growing climate risk. But the report, dire as it is, misses a key point: (...)
Not surprisingly, the IPCC’s special report on global warming of up to 1.5°C confirms that the impacts of anthropogenic climate change are formidable and have been underestimated, both socially and environmentally.
The 1°C warming we are already experiencing is enough to cause major tragedies: (...)
With a carbon tax and dividend, we can fight climate change — and reduce inequality.
The poor are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change — yet under many proposals, they would also bear the biggest burden for attacking it. The socialist case for a carbon dividend — which would (...)
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