Ecological debt
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Climate change and wars
10 April 2022 - by Michael Roberts
As the ugly war in Ukraine drags on, with more lives lost and atrocities (apparently) committed, energy and food prices hit yet more highs. The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) of the UN publishes a monthly global price index. The FAO (...) -
As Climate Crisis Worsens, the Case for Eco-socialism Strengthens
3 November 2021 - by Patrick Bond
A fierce intellectual battle continues over the ideological character of green politics. The overall conflict that emerged in past decades between environmental justice advocates on the one hand, and on the other, a coalition of states, (...) -
Lessons from the assassination of Fikile Ntshangase: Climate violence, the “Right to say No!”, uncompensated resource extraction, financial profiteering and unpaid ecological debt in South Africa’s coal mining belt
22 October 2021 - by Patrick Bond
Fikile Ntshangase died aged 63 on October 22, 2020, assassinated by three thugs who entered her house – with several grandchildren playing nearby – and shot her six times, following her success in stalling a local mine’s expansion. The murder was (...) -
“Blah, Blah, Blah”: Youth Climate Activists Slam Political Inaction at U.N. Summit Ahead of COP26
5 October 2021 - by Democracy Now!
Thousands of youth climate activists marched through the streets of Milan last week demanding world leaders meet their pledges to the Paris Climate Agreement and keep global temperatures from rising by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius. The protest (...) -
While 282 million Africans go to bed hungry every night
1 October 2021 - by Carol Thompson
More than 500 indigenous and farmer organizations across the continents have raised their voices to expose the UN’s Food Systems Summit as only advocating one food system—so they’re being silenced. The United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) (...) -
On September 24, we will strike to demand for intersectional climate justice! #Uproot The System
15 September 2021 - by Fridays for future
We’re in the midst of a climate crisis, mass species extinction, a world health pandemic, socio-economic inequality crises, and more. The current system actively strives towards highlighting the voices of the most privileged through a racist and (...) -
Pandemics and the capitalist destruction of nature
14 June 2021 - by Daniel Tanuro
The pandemic we’re coping with is a zoonosis. Zoonoses are infectious diseases caused by pathogens jumping species from animals to humans. The pathogen may be a virus, a bacterium or a prion. So far as we know, zoonoses have been present (...) -
‘Unequal ecological exchange’ worsens across time and space, creating growing Northern environmental liabilities
19 May 2021 - by Patrick Bond, Rahul Basu
What is “unequal ecological exchange,” especially when applied to resource flows affecting the Global South and its future generations? How does the North’s ecological debt – also termed environmental liabilities – to the South grow, as a result? (...) -
APMDD Statement on the 54th Annual Meeting of the Asian Development Bank
6 May 2021 - by APMDD - Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development
At this 54th annual meeting of the Board of Governors of the Asian Development Bank, we challenge the leadership and staff of the ADB to reflect seriously on its legacy. For more than five decades, the ADB has left a trail of projects that (...) -
Nigeria: Extraction-driven devastation: an interview with Nnimmo Bassey
28 April 2021 - by Nnimmo Bassey, ROAPE
In early 2021, anti-extractivist struggles won two major legal victories against Shell Oil’s operations in Nigeria. These wins represent decades of community organizing on the part of Niger Delta activists and residents. ROAPE’s Lee Wengraf (...) -
Measuring Capital’s Super-Exploitation of People and Nature in South Africa: First-Cut Empirical Evidence drawing upon Rosa Luxemburg’s Methodology
7 April 2021 - by Patrick Bond
Introduction Super-exploitation is again a hot topic of debate within international political economy scholarship, in part because “accumulation by dispossession” (using David Harvey’s phrase) is so evident at this stage of the long capitalist (...) -
“Too late to be pessimistic! Ecosocialism or collapse”
27 January 2021 - by Daniel Tanuro, Mats Lucia Bayer
We interview Daniel Tanuro, author of the book “Trop tard pour être pessimistes! Écosocialisme ou effondrement”, published this year by Éditions Textuel. As an ecosocialist activist and member of the Anticapitalist Left, Daniel Tanuro is one of the (...) -
As South African climate justice veterans fall, consciousness begins reviving, from below and across
2 January 2021 - by Patrick Bond
On three days last week – December 23-25 – South Africa’s east coast province of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) lost three of its clearest voices for social justice and environmental sanity: rural women’s leader Sizani Ngubane (74), trade unionist Patrick (...) -
Climate and environmental crisis: Sorcerer’s apprentices at the World Bank and the IMF
23 December 2020 - by Eric Toussaint
In December 2020, on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the signature of the Paris Agreement on Climate, the UN General Secretary sounded the alarm because the situation has fundamentally worsened. In this article we analyze what the World (...) -
Barbarians at the barn: private equity sinks its teeth into agriculture
17 December 2020 - by GRAIN
Financial flows going into agriculture are growing more and more institutionalised – and more and more private. To be sure, investing in agriculture has been going on since time immemorial. After all, farmers do it every day as they improve their (...) -
Energy transitions and colonialism
2 November 2020 - by Hamza Hamouchene
Any talk about green transition and sustainability must not become a shiny façade for neocolonial schemes of plunder and domination—a view from North Africa. The year 2020 has seen an unprecedented oil price crash, causing a shock to the fossil (...) -
IMF’s new policy at odds with green Covid-19 recovery
13 October 2020 - by Bizcommunity
A new review of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) most recent economic policy advice for five countries with ongoing coal sector expansions show it is green-lighting fossil fuel expansion, despite the fund’s stated support for a green (...) -
International Day of Struggle Against Monoculture Tree Plantations
21 September 2020 - by WRM
Help stop the advance of monoculture tree plantations in the global South, especially in African countries! Sign this letter to alert people in the global North! Stop development agencies from promoting expansion of large-scale tree (...) -
Agro-imperialism in the time of Covid-19
16 July 2020 - by GRAIN
Nestlé, the world’s largest food company, is known for scandal. It earned the nickname “babykiller” in the 1970s for causing infant illness and death in low-income communities by promoting bottle feeding of its infant formula and discouraging breast (...) -
Millions forced to choose between hunger or Covid-19
26 May 2020 - by GRAIN
On the eve of May Day 2020, in full coronavirus pandemic, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) released some hair raising statistics. About 1.6 billion workers from the informal sector are in dire straits because of the lockdowns (...) -
South/North / Developing Countries/Developed Countries – What is it all about?
11 February 2020 - by CADTM
Lexical choices that are not neutral The terms used to designate the different categories of countries convey the theoretical and political divergences in terms of analysis and strategy. Generally, these divergences are related to the social (...) -
21 May Global #AntiChevron Day
Open Letter to Ecuador on the Chevron Case
23 May 2019 - by Collectif
Mr. Lenín Boltaire Moreno Garcés President of the Republic of Ecuador 21 May 2019 Regarding the Chevron-Texaco Case in Ecuador Mr. President, We who belong to many international civil society social organizations and networks who are (...) -
Massive Mobilisation of the International Civil Society on the Global Anti-Chevron Day #AntiChevron
22 May 2019 - by Collectif
Press release Amsterdam/Geneva/Quito May 21st 2019 268 organisations, networks, social movements and trade unions from different continents, representing more than 280 millions of persons, are mobilised to denounce the Chevron’s impunity in (...) -
If Politicians Can’t Face Climate Change, Extinction Rebellion Will
21 May 2019 - by David Graeber
A new movement is demanding solutions. They may just be in time to save the planet. On April 15, thousands of activists from a movement called Extinction Rebellion started occupying several sites in central London, shutting down major roads (...) -
Feminism and ecology: the same struggle? – The shaping of ecofeminism
13 May 2019 - by Marijke Colle
The ecofeminist movement was born a few decades ago from the observation that there is an analogy between the exploitation of women and the exploitation of nature. In the current context of urgency and collapse and as the concept of the (...)
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