Photo by Phil Fiddyment/Flickr Insects are in decline across the world because of industrial farming and heavy pesticide use which are threatening food production, according to the 2020 Insect Atlas, released on June 9 by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung and Friends of the Earth Europe. Insects keep the planet’s ecological system running, and
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Canadian Dimension: The Politics of Ecosocialism
View of the refinery from the Fourth Congress of Biological Diversity, Paraguana. Photo by Quincy Saul/Ecosocialist Horizons Ian Angus is interviewed by Rebel News, a critical source of news and debate centred in Ireland. Ian Angus is an ecosocialist activist and the editor of Climate and Capitalism. Rebel: The term
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: 20 Essential Books on Marxist Ecology
Adapted by WhoWhatWhy from Evrik and Mets501 / Wikimedia and Rafaelgr It’s two years since I published my last Essential Reading list. Since then I’ve received many suggestions for additions, and many new books have been published. It’s time for an update. As before, the list does not pretend to
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: A Marxist History of Capitalism
A Marxist History of Capitalism Henry Heller Routledge, 2018 Since the 1970s, Marxist discussion of how and when capitalism was born has been dominated by two competing academic currents. World-System Theory, first enunciated by Immanuel Wallerstein, locates the origin of capitalism in the expansion of world trade and the plunder
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Memo to Jacobin: Ecomodernism is not ecosocialism
“To say that ‘science and technology can solve all our problems in the long run,’ is much worse than believing in witchcraft.” —István Mészáros This summer, the left-wing magazine Jacobin published a special issue on climate change. The lead article declares that “climate change … has to be at the
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Green energy won’t save the earth without social change
Photo by Chris Lim The most popular techno-fix for global warming is green energy. If energy companies would only deploy wind, hydro, solar, geothermal or nuclear, then emission-intensive fossil fuels will eventually disappear. But will that actually work? A new study by Richard York of the University of Oregon shows
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: A plague of David Attenborough
Last week, British broadcaster and naturalist David Attenborough devoted over a third of a widely reported interview to his claim that human beings are “a plague on the earth.” “It’s not just climate change; it’s sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Secret documents expose Ottawa’s tar sands enemies list
As the Harper government works with oil companies to slander and discredit opponents of tar sands, will the supposedly impartial regulator be trusted? (Greenpeace Canada, January 26, 2012) As controversy increases over the Harper government’s attacks on environmental groups, Greenpeace Canada today released internal government documents obtained under Access to
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