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Deadly heatwaves will intensify for 1,000 years after net zero
New research shows that the hotter climate regime will last centuries, not decades
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Deadly heatwaves will intensify for 1,000 years after net zero | Climate & Capitalism
Study shows that the hotter climate regime will last centuries…
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December 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Can tax policy end extreme inequality?
World Inequality Report exposes vast wealth gap, but fails to challenge the concentrated power of capital
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Can tax policy end extreme inequality? | Climate & Capitalism
Report exposes vast wealth gap, but fails to challenge the concentrated power of capital…
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December 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
COP30 entrenches the crisis of climate politics
The Belem climate summit was yet another a 'safety valve' for capital, offerig illusions and no real action
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COP30 entrenches the crisis of climate politics | Climate & Capitalism
The Belem climate summit was yet another a ‘safety valve’ for capital, offerig illusions and no real action…
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December 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
PFAS: The Devil’s Piss
Part Two of a series on the poisons that capitalism spreads worldwide: Deadly 'forever chemicals'
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PFAS: The Devil’s Piss | Climate & Capitalism
Part Two of a series on the poisons that capitalism spreads worldwide: Deadly ‘forever chemicals’…
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December 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Profitable Poisons
Beginning a series of articles on the deadly chemicals that capitalism spreads worldwide
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Profitable Poisons | Climate & Capitalism
Beginning a series of articles on the deadly chemicals that capitalism spreads worldwide…
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December 1, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Plastic pollution is worsened by climate change
Warmer climate increases plastics’ toxicity, disproportionately poisoning large mammals
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Plastic pollution is worsened by climate change | Climate & Capitalism
Warmer climate increases plastics’ toxicity, disproportionately poisoning large mammals…
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November 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Chemical pollution drives prostate cancer, falling sperm counts
Pesticides, microplastics and PFAS are causing a precipitous decline in male reproductive health
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Chemical pollution drives prostate cancer, falling sperm counts | Climate & Capitalism
Pesticides, microplastics and PFAS are causing a precipitous decline in male reproductive health…
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November 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Ecosocialist Bookshelf. November 2025, Part 2
Continuing our survey of this month’s bumper crop of books for reds and greens
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf. November 2025, Part 2 | Climate & Capitalism
Continuing our survey of this month’s bumper crop of books for reds and greens…
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November 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
In Canada, the Free Market Fairy failed to cut emissions. As expected. Canada led the way in implementing carbon taxes. And in dumping them.
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In Canada, the Free Market Fairy failed to cut emissions. As expected. | Climate & Capitalism
Canada led the way in implementing carbon taxes. And in dumping them.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Fossil fuel projects threaten health and rights of two billion people
Amnesty Report: Worldwide production of oil. gas and coal is undermining life, nature, and human rights
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Fossil fuel projects threaten health and rights of two billion people | Climate & Capitalism
Amnesty Report: Worldwide production of oil. gas and coal is undermining life, nature…
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November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
ECOSOCIALISM AND DEGROWTH IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
Only a democratic and planned socialist economy can put an end to structural racism and imperialist violence
Talk by Peter Boyle at Ecosocialism 2025, in Melbourne Australia
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Ecosocialism and degrowth in the Anthropocene | Climate & Capitalism
Only a democratic and planned socialist economy can put an end to structural racism and imperialist violence…
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November 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
EMISSION REDUCTIONS: PROMISES, PROMISES, PROMISES
COP30 meets ten years after the Paris Agreement, and Earth is warming faster than ever
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Emission reductions: Promises, promises, promises | Climate & Capitalism
COP30 meets ten years after the Paris Agreement, and Earth is warming faster than ever…
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November 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Climate change costs millions of lives each year.
Lancet report shows The health and economic consequences of delayed climate action are escalating rapidly
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Climate change costs millions of lives each year | Climate & Capitalism
The health and economic consequences of delayed climate action are escalating rapidly…
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November 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, November 2025. Part One of this month’s bumper crop of books for reds and greens
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, November 2025 | Climate & Capitalism
Part One of this month’s bumper crop of books for reds and greens…
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November 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Faster sea level rise threatens China’s coastal megacities. Thermal expansion and melting glaciers endanger some of the world’s largest urban centers.
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Faster sea level rise threatens China’s coastal megacities | Climate & Capitalism
Thermal expansion and melting glaciers endanger some of the world’s largest urban centers…
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October 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
CLIMATE CHANGE IS UNGREENING THE OCEANS. A vital life-support system is in decline, threatening food chains and the climate.
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Climate change is ungreening the oceans | Climate & Capitalism
A vital life-support system is in decline, threatening food chains and the climate…
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October 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Bolivia Burning: Inside a Latin American Ecocide. Documentary film exposes the role of colonisers, agribusiness in causing massive forest fires.
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Bolivia Burning: Inside a Latin American Ecocide | Climate & Capitalism
Documentary film exposes the role of colonisers, agribusiness in causing massive forest fires…
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October 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, October 2025 -- Plastics, forever chemicals and more: four books examine the poisoning of the biosphere. climateandcapitalism.com/2025/10/17/e...
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, October 2025 | Climate & Capitalism
Plastics, forever chemicals and more: four books examine the poisoning of the biosphere…
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October 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Amazon fires cause record-breaking CO2 emissions: most Amazon greenhouse gas in 2024 came from fires, not deforestation.
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Amazon fires cause record-breaking CO2 emissions | Climate & Capitalism
700% increase means most Amazon greenhouse gas in 2024 came from fires…
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October 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
My latest for Monthly Review: What's behind the decision not to recognize the Anthropocene as a formal geological epoch? How did the organization undermine the conclusions of top scientists? What are the implications for the public debate about the planetary crisis? monthlyreview.org/articles/has...
Has the Anthropocene Been Canceled? - Monthly Review
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October 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
‘Carbon markets dispossess our territories and criminalize our ways’
Indigenous meeting in Peru condemns ‘carbon offset’ schemes that steal forests
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‘Carbon markets dispossess our territories and criminalize our ways’ | Climate & Capitalism
Indigenous meeting in Peru condemns ‘carbon offset’ schemes that steal forests…
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September 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Climate change adds 40 days to worldwide wildfire season
Over half of annual burned area now occurs outside of natural burn season
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Climate change adds 40 days to worldwide wildfire season | Climate & Capitalism
Over half of annual burned area now occurs outside of natural burn season…
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September 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Official plans aim for twice as much fossil fuel as the 1.5ºC goal allows. Production Gap Report exposes continued collective failure to lower global emissions
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Fossil fuel production plans contradict climate promises | Climate & Capitalism
Official plans show continued collective failure to lower global emissions…
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September 22, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Wildfire smoke impact far greater than estimates: thousands killed
Study shows US death toll could reach 70,000 a year by 2050
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Wildfire smoke impact far greater than estimates: thousands killed | Climate & Capitalism
Study shows US death toll could reach 70,000 a year by 2050…
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September 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Global water cycle: increasingly erratic and extreme
Swinging between deluge and drought, two-thirds of river networks have too much or too little water
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Global water cycle: increasingly erratic and extreme | Climate & Capitalism
Swinging between deluge and drought, two-thirds of river networks have too much or too little water…
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September 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM