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Ecosocialist Bookshelf: February 2024

Important reading for reds and greens, including four new books on capitalism and the pandemic

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50 updated replies to climate science deniers

Skeptical Science refutes rampant misinformation about global warming

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Tanzania escalates violence to evict indigenous people

Tens of thousands are being driven off their land to make 'conservation parks' for tourists

Left critics denounce COP28, but offer no alternative

Alan Thornett says abstaining from UN climate process is empty posturing: we can't win if we aren't involved

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Air pollution from Alberta tar sands is 6300% higher than reported

Organic carbon emissions equal all other Canadian sources combined

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Alpine glaciers certain to shrink at least a third by 2050

But if present trends continue, the ice volume will fall nearly 50%

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Davos and the melting world economy

As billionnaires meet in luxury, Oxfam publishes a staggering condemnation of capital's failure to meet humanity's needs

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‘Developing countries’ are trapped in a new debt crisis

Wealth flowing from poorest nations to the richest. World Bank and IMF must go!

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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, January 2024

From killer insects to trash to degrowth, six new books for understanding and changing the world

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Do capitalists want to kill humanity … and themselves?

What mad ideas lie behind capitalism's drive towards planetary catastrophe?

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