India’s oldest Socialist Weekly!
Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The capitalist system, driven at its core by the maximization of profit, regardless of social and ecological costs, is incompatible with a just and sustainable future. Ecosocialism offers a radical alternative that puts social and ecological well-being first.
The World Meteorological Organization’s draft report on global climate change in 2020 describes continued deterioration on all fronts.
The Covid-19 pandemic has shown how vulnerable the world is to a truly global catastrophe. But another, bigger, catastrophe has been building for many decades, and humanity is still lagging far behind in efforts to address it.
The very future of civilisation is in peril – the intervention time left for mankind is rapidly shrinking.
Climate scientists now believe their predictions about the rate of the global temperature increase have been too conservative, and stronger and more decisive action is needed to reduce dangerous greenhouse gas emissions.
Nearly a third of the 100 cities in the world susceptible to ‘water risk’ — defined as losses from battling droughts to flooding — are in India, according to the WWF Water Risk Filter.
“Terracide.” A new word – it’s meant to encompass the almost unimaginable – what the big energy companies are doing on and to our planet right now. Their execs are consciously destroying/melting it for profit and if that doesn’t make them terrorists – or terrarists, what does?
In contrast to the misconception that Marx and Engels were only concerned about economics, the article (in 2 parts) highlights how they in fact had plenty to say about environmental degradation, focusing in particular on their notion of a metabolic rift.
Continuing Ian Angus’s examination of the ‘deadly trio’ of CO2-driven assaults on ocean life. Part three: ocean warming and permanent heatwaves.
The scandalous passing of the “Job Creation” bill, or more accurately, the “pro-Big-Bosses-against-people-and-environment” bill on October 5, has been met with strong opposition from large sections of the Indonesian public.
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