Climate Change
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New analysis: climate impact of data centres
As part of Foxglove’s work to sound the alarm on the environmental impact of Big Tech’s dash to cover the UK in data centres, we’ve published some new analysis of data centres’ impact on the UK’s efforts to cut carbon emissions. Continue reading
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Who is responsible for heat that kills?
Discussions of climate change that focus on the 1.5°C or 2.0°C targets can be misleading. An increase of less than two degrees seems small compared to the normal temperature variations we experience from season to season or even from night to day. Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf August 2025
Six important books on slavery, capitalist diseases, climate action, scientists resisting, economic planning, and technofossils. Continue reading
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For an ‘ecommunist’ alternative to degrowth and luxury communism
Fiery Red Interview If the working class does not tackle capitalism, then reactionary solutions will be imposed Continue reading
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Global heating isn’t just getting worse. It is getting worse faster
Thursday, 19 June 2025 — Climate and Capitalism Surplus heat is accumulating in the Earth system at an accelerating rate “Things aren’t just getting worse. They’re getting worse faster, We’re actively moving in the wrong direction in a critical period of time that we would need to meet our most ambitious climate goals. Some reports, Continue reading
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1.5 is dead: How hot will the Earth get?
There is no room for doubt: Earth is getting hotter. The question now is how hot will it get? Continue reading
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Carbon capture company emits more than it captures
Between April 2021 and October 2024, British physicist Michael de Podesta paid £40 per month to carbon capture company Climeworks. In return, the company promised to remove 50 kilograms of carbon dioxide each month. But in September 2024, de Podesta wrote that “when I checked the other day they had removed precisely no CO₂ from the atmosphere”. Continue reading
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Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time
For the first time, the growth in China’s clean power generation has caused the nation’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to fall despite rapid power demand growth. Continue reading
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Climate Refugees: The Next Great Humanitarian Challenge?
As climate change displaces millions through rising seas, droughts, and disasters, a global legal vacuum leaves climate refugees unprotected—demanding urgent international action and accountability from the world’s biggest polluters. Continue reading
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Western elites who want to play God with the Sun – who are they? 🌞
The UK government has unveiled a £50M ($66.6M) scheme to ‘fight climate change’ via experiments dimming the Sun, from the release of reflective substances mimicking natural aerosols to the use of seawater sprays to ‘brighten clouds’, increasing their reflectivity. Continue reading
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The Climate Intelligence Assessment the Government Doesn’t Want You to See
2008 Assessment Could Fill Critical Gaps in Most Recent 2021 Intelligence Estimate “There’s no secret stuff in here… Just good analysts working with publicly available information and applying good methodological tradecraft” Continue reading
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An Ecological Civilization Will Have to Be Socialist
Ian Angus is editor of the online ecosocialist journal Climate & Capitalism and a founding member of the Global Ecosocialist Network. He is the author of Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System (Monthly Review Press, 2016) and, most recently, The War Against the Commons: Dispossession and Resistance in the… Continue reading
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The rule of the Oligarchs and Machines is here
Ordinary humanity faces an emerging threat from the combined might of the Human Elites (billionaires and the military-political class) working with perhaps the greatest power the planet has ever seen: artificial intelligence. Their combined might has the potential to totally screw us. Happy New Year everyone. Continue reading
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Barbarism of Capitalism
Lenin characterised capitalism in France and Britain as “civilised barbarism,” and referred to the so-called Western civilisation as “capitalist barbarism,” driven by the “stupid avarice of a handful of millionaires” who converted people as “slaves of wealth” during the early twentieth century. He further argued that “civilisation, freedom and wealth under capitalism call to mind the… Continue reading
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The earth can’t endure Nato’s ambitions
NATO’s expansionary military targets are deeply at odds with the need to scale down global emissions to avoid deepening the climate crisis. Nato’s goal of dedicating 2% of GDP to military spending is set to exacerbate climate breakdown by diverting billions of dollars away from essential climate investment and significantly increasing CO2 emissions. Continue reading
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Laundering Carbon and the New Scramble for Africa
Reports suggested that Blue Carbon—a company privately owned by Sheikh Ahmed al-Maktoum, a member of Dubai’s ruling family—had signed deals promising the firm control over vast tracts of land across the African continent. These deals included an astonishing 10 percent of the landmass in Liberia, Zambia and Tanzania, and 20 percent in Zimbabwe. Altogether, the area… Continue reading
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‘On The Highway To Climate Hell’ – The Climate Crisis, Activism And Broken Politics
Last month, the United Nations environment agency issued arguably its starkest warning yet about the climate crisis. The failure by governments around the world to cut carbon emissions means there is ‘no credible pathway to 1.5C in place’. Limiting the rise of global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels was the international agreement at COP21, the UN… Continue reading
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Why There Is No Public Sense Of A Climate Crisis
Increasingly, now, we do have citizens among us: scientists – particularly, climate scientists – who are awakening from their ‘mainstream’ slumber to the reality that they are citizens of a decaying society on a dying planet. Continue reading
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‘There Is No Way To Fool Physics’: Climate Breakdown And State-Corporate Madness
In the terrifying opening to his 2020 novel, ‘The Ministry for the Future’, Kim Stanley Robinson depicts an intense heatwave in India. In an ‘ordinary town’ in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, people are struggling to cope with unbearable heat and humidity. It is the combination of the two, measured by the so-called ‘wet-bulb temperature’,… Continue reading
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COP26 News Links 16 November 2021
16 November 2021 — The New Dark Age COP26: India ends up as fall guy https://www.indianpunchline.com/cop26-india-ends-up-as-fall-guy/ COP26: ‘Walking Inches When We Must Move Miles’ https://countercurrents.org/2021/11/cop26-walking-inches-when-we-must-move-miles/ ‘Standing with Your Feet in the Water’: COP26 Struggles to Succeed https://www.globalresearch.ca/standing-with-your-feet-water-cop26-struggles-succeed/5761689 COP26 and Pope Francis’ “Greening of Christianity” https://www.globalresearch.ca/cop26-pope-francis-greening-christianity/5761604 The Woody Biomass Blunder https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/11/the-woody-biomass-blunder/ Gasbagging In Glasgow: COP26 And Continue reading
The New Dark Age 