Kim Stanley Robinson describes himself as “a patriot of the genre” of science fiction, writing at the intersection of science and politics for over three decades. His work is striking for its warmth and realism.
Subjects Archives: Ecology
Marxist Ecology, Environmental Science and Ecological Crisis
Green paradoxes: How climate change policy preserves climate change causes
Why are societies failing to effectively respond to climate change? Why is it that “environmental degradation increases amid the growth of environmental attention and concern,” as Alexander Stoner and Andony Melathopoulos put it?
Humanity faces simultaneous climate disasters: study
The future risk of dealing with multiple climate impacts at once depends on geography and whether humanity succeeds in rapidly drawing down greenhouse gas emissions.
Filming in the most depressing city on the Earth: Jakarta
It stinks, it is the most polluted city on earth, but that is not the most terrible thing about it.
Climate change is the product of how capitalism “values” nature
Capitalist industrialization has led us to the edge of the precipice of climate change, and avoiding the end of civilization as we know it may require the development of a view in direct opposition to the way in which capitalism “values” nature, according to John Bellamy Foster.
Massive Woolsey fire began on contaminated Santa Susana Field Laboratory, close to site of partial meltdown
The tremendously destructive Woolsey Fire has been widely reported as beginning “near” the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL or Rocketdyne), but it appears that the fire began on the Rocketdyne property itself.
California’s wildfire and climate change warnings are still too conservative
Another Hot, Dry Year Is Fueling The State’s Deadliest, Most Destructive Wildfire. Scientists Say Wildfires Here Are Consistently Surpassing Their Projections.
Reclaiming radical creativity
Podcast (co-hosted with Marine from A Privileged Vegan): veganvanguardpodcast.com ___ adrienne maree brown – Emergent Strategy: https://www.akpress.org/emergentstrat…
Geoengineering as dispossession
The Political Economy of Land Use in an Era of Climate Urgency.
Is the answer really ‘in our genes’?
RICHARD DAWKINS, author of one of the best known texts on human nature, The Selfish Gene, declares we are “machines created by our genes”–that “[w]e are survival machines–robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.”
Environmental activists rebel against government’s climate inaction
15 arrested as hundreds take part in civil disobedience outside Parliament
Geoengineering and environmental capitalism
If, as history shows, fantasies of weather and climate control have chiefly served commercial and military interests, why should we expect the future to be different? —James Fleming, Fixing the Sky
A sound ecological policy cannot be achieved within a capitalist framework
“Ecosocialist politics is based on recognizing that a sound ecological policy cannot be achieved within a capitalist framework. In order to restore (to the extent possible) the health of the ecosphere, it is necessary that economic decisions be no longer based on the capitalist goals of maximizing profit and accumulating wealth.”
Who will control the Earth’s thermostat?
Geoengineering is a risky business. So risky, in fact, that it should be banned.
The crisis of capital
It may be hard, but I want you to try to think back a decade, actually slightly less than a decade. In 2000, we were celebrating the millennium, and if you remember what was happening at that time, it was an enormous celebration of a new global capitalism, of globalization, of the end of conflict […]
Twenty-first century capitalism—the means exist to break the chains that hold us
“The overwhelming character of the ecological crisis will eventually…[force workers to recognize] that the main material conditions determining their lives are both economic and environmental—and indeed that the latter are more far-reaching.”
Yes, ExxonMobil and Chevron are still distorting climate science
If you look at headlines from the last year, ExxonMobil, Chevron and other major fossil fuel companies have seemingly turned a new page on climate change.
In ‘Historic Moment’ for climate action, Wales pledges to leave its remaining coal in the ground
“More countries must rapidly follow the path of Wales in leaving fossil fuels in the ground and transitioning to renewables.”
UN report: revolution needed to prevent climate disaster
There is a famous old left phrase, ‘socialism or barbarism’: there is no choice but to find a way to stop capitalism’s destructive logic, because if left unchecked it will create catastrophe.
LEAKED: Trade group including Facebook, Google to ‘oppose’ EU climate efforts
Leaked document details BusinessEurope’s campaign to undermine EU attempts to cut climate emissions.
