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It’s time for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
The Paris Agreement did not mention fossil fuels. The COP28 outcome was ridden with loopholes, qualifiers and dangerous distractions.
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‘Sickening Profits: The Global Food System’s Poisoned Food and Toxic Wealth’
The modern food system is being shaped by the capitalist imperative for profit.
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An Eco-Revolutionary Tipping Point?
Global warming, the two climate denials, and the environmental proletariat.
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Plastic pollution caused $249 billion in U.S. health care costs in 2018, finds study
Chemicals leaching from plastics are leaving Americans notably sicker and poorer, according to a new study found.
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The climate charade continues
With fossil-fuel interests now openly and repeatedly in charge of Cop summits, their failure of legitimacy must be confronted, argues John Clarke.
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We need to reverse the culture of decay and march on the street for a culture of humanity
The final months of 2023 pierced our sense of hope and threw us into a kind of mortal sadness.
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Corporate media fed COP 28 carbon capture confusion
The conference, held in Dubai, capital of the oil-dependent United Arab Emirates, reeked of almost comedic irony.
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Introduction to the Brazilian edition of Facing the Anthropocene
Ian Angus’s Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System (Monthly Review Press, 2016) continues to be well received worldwide. This is the introduction to the most recent edition released in the autumn of 2023—a Portuguese translation from the noted Brazilian publishing house Boitempo.
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U.S. claims huge portion of the ocean floor, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic
In an underreported but hugely important development, the United States is now claiming a vast portion of the ocean floor, twice the size of California.
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Marx’s Vision of Sustainable Human Development
With global capitalism’s worsening poverty and environmental crises, sustainable human development comes to the fore as the primary question that must be engaged by all twenty-first century socialists in core and periphery alike. It is in this human developmental connection, I will argue, that Marx’s vision of communism or socialism (two terms that he used interchangeably) can be most helpful.
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Judge denies U.S. Department of Justice’s motions to dismiss and for early appeal in children’s constitutional climate lawsuit Juliana v. Unites States
On Friday, December 29, 2023, U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken issued an order and opinion denying the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) motions to dismiss the second amended complaint in the children’s constitutional climate lawsuit Juliana v. United States.
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Introduction to the Brazilian edition of ‘Facing the Anthropocene’
Important steps towards formally defining a new epoch in Earth System history.
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Gramsci’s animality
Prison Notebooks sets the tone with “Animality and Industrialism,” Gramsci’s original work-in-progress header for the section he’d eventually label “Americanism and Fordism.”
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Thirty years of failure on climate: How did it come to this?
It’s more than 50 years since scientists first came to understand that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions from human activities could be drivers of a potentially catastrophic warming of the world’s climate.
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2023’s costliest weather disasters reveal ‘double inequality’ of climate crisis
“There is a global postcode lottery that is stacked against the poor,” Christian Aid’s chief executive said on the publication of the charity’s annual list of the year’s costliest climate-driven disasters.
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‘You burn with us’
We need a mass movement to ensure a just transition and prevent climate breakdown. But such contestations can go very wrong.
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The Price of Water and the Ongoing Colonization of Nature: Australian Cases in Global Context
Competition over fresh, clean water supplies is leading corporations and their partners in government into situations that transform water from a useful common good to a scarce, exchangeable asset. This process of commodification and financialization is imbricated in an ongoing colonization of nature, one starkly illustrated in settler colonial contexts like Australia.
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When economists shut off your water
Access to water in Nairobi is horribly unequal. The World Bank, Nairobi Water Company, and development economists exploited this unjust context to treat poor Kenyans like guinea pigs.
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Cop28: Elite politics won’t save the planet
If you’re a monarch, president or oil industry big shot the floor is yours at Cop28—there’s little to no input from those that actually feel the effects of climate change, warns RICHARD HEBBERT
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A scientist’s warning on how climate change is rooted in violence
The education system kills innate curiosity and hinders the development of scientific attitude and is thus conducive for the philosophy of othering. Even this lopsided knowledge is not available to all. Thus, people become oblivious to the universality of humankind and species’ interdependence.