climate change

Jobs and industry in the Hunter Valley: Context for a conversation about a Just Transition away from coal
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By Steve Phillips

May 5, 2017 –– Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal –– The Hunter Valley is famously, or infamously, one of the most coal-mining-dominated regions in the world. We have one of the highest concentrations of mines on the planet, and we host its biggest export coal facility. Many will tell you that the Hunter has always been a coal-mining region, and it's true. But in the past it played a lesser role, and only in recent years has mining come to dominate the physical, social, and economic landscape of the Hunter Valley.
Will science go rogue against Donald Trump?
 

By Chris Williams

"Please let us remember that to investigate the constitution of the universe is one of the greatest and noblest problems in nature, and it becomes still grander when directed toward another discovery."
February 22, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Socialist Worker with the author's permission — IN THE age of Trump, the person writing those words has much to teach us about the impending scientific struggles of our own time.
Facebook server farm powered by ‘clean energy’ will increase Denmark's greenhouse emissions
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By Stan Cox and Paul Cox
 
February 8, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — Last month, social-media giant Facebook announced plans to build a new data center near Odense, Denmark. The expansion of server capacity was needed, the company said, to support "richer content" such as live-streaming and virtual reality.

Trump and climate catastrophe
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Protecting business as usual: Another attack on Anthropocene science

 

A Kurdish response to climate change
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The ecosocialist imperative
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October 28, 2016 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Left Voice — Hannah Holleman is an activist and professor of sociology at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her work has appeared in numerous publications on subjects including imperialism and colonialism, political economy ecology, ecological justice, feminism, advertising and propaganda, financialization, mass incarceration, and social theory.
Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil capitalism and the crisis of the Earth system

Degrowth, green capitalism and the promise of ecosocialism
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Climate justice and the prospect of power

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 A balance sheet of the movement to block the cross-Toronto ‘Line 9’ pipeline project by John Riddell. With notes on the meaning of “climate justice” and the relationship of socialism to social movements.
From the tar sands to ‘green jobs’?
 Work and ecological justice
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By Greg Albo and Lilian Yap July 29, 2016 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Socialist Project -- The ecological and social implications of climate change have – or should – become a central parameter for all discussions of work and capitalism.
John Bellamy Foster: The anthropocene and Marxism today
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