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People are dying. Aquatic animals are baking in their shells. Fruit is being cooked on the tree. It’s time to act.
Human beings crave clarity, immediacy, landmark events. We seek turning points, because our minds are good at recognizing the specific – this time, this place, this sudden event, (...)
Climate crimes: How Big Oil and Gas kept a dirty secret for decades Experts’ discoveries lie at the heart of two dozen lawsuits that hope to hold the industry accountable for devastating damage.
Photo – Marty Hoffert: ‘It never actually occurred to me that this was going to become a political (...)
Climate change will affect every aspect of our lives – including the buildings we live and work in. Most people in the US, for example, spend about 90% of their time indoors. Climate change is fundamentally altering the environmental conditions in which these buildings are designed to function. (...)
After a century of wielding extraordinary economic and political power, America’s petroleum giants face a reckoning for driving the greatest existential threat of our lifetimes. Via an unprecedented wave of lawsuits, America’s petroleum giants face a reckoning for the devastation caused by fossil (...)
The unprecedented heatwave in the Pacific north-west risks becoming the new normal if we don’t act now.
On Sunday, the small mountain town of Lytton, British Columbia, became one of the hottest places in the world. Then, on Monday, Lytton got even hotter – 47.9C (118F) – hotter than it’s ever (...)
Analysis shows significant risk of cascading events even at 2C of heating, with severe long-term effects.
Ice sheets and ocean currents at risk of climate tipping points can destabilise each other as the world heats up, leading to a domino effect with severe consequences for humanity, (...)
A conversation with Andreas Malm about his new book, White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism
Andreas Malm, a historian and scholar of human ecology at Lund University in Sweden, may be the hardest-working intellectual on the climate left. The author of 2016’s Fossil Capital, a (...)
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 (...)
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