The EcoSocialist is an individual socialist blog.
I believe that socialism holds to the key to reversing our mad trajectory to environmental and social chaos.
My aim is to translate ecosocialist concepts and theories into concrete political ideas – ideas that can become a platform for a transition to environmental sanity and a socialist society.
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Vested Interests in the IPCC Report
The recent IPCC report (the mitigation section of the 6th Assessment Report) has a stark warning. If we don’t start reducing carbon emissions immediately, there no hope of keeping global warming below 1.5°C. The report is based on the analysis of hundreds of “integrated assessment models” (IAMs), which are “what if” descriptions of the future.…
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Loss & Damage
Climate finance provokes sharp disagreements between wealthy and poor nations. Leaders of the wealthy countries offer insultingly small amounts of money to countries that will be severely affected by climate change, but do not have the resources to respond. Low lying small island states face devastating consequences from sea level rise. Since 1990, they have…
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Socialists and the Ukraine war
War is bad news for everyone except the arms industry and some politicians, and it is never good for the environment. The war in Ukraine is no exception. A number of socialists and socialist organizations have failed to see this war for what it is – an unprovoked invasion by Russia on Ukraine. It is…
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Lithium Batteries and the Environment
Global consumption of lithium is growing strongly to meet the demand for batteries for electric vehicles (EVs). Mining companies have been rushing to open new lithium mines, to such an extent that there was a large overproduction in lithium in 2018. Since early 2021, opposition to Rio Tinto’s planned lithium mine in the western Jadar…