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Mass Extinctions
Penguin melting

A third or more of all species could be gone by 2070

By Ian Angus on February 25, 2020 in Biodiversity, Climate Change, Science

Even if Paris goals are met, climate change could wipe out 20% of species by 2070. If warming is greater, far more will die.

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Eight new books
Robbery of nature; Choosing a future; Neoliberal lives; Indigenous resistance; Canadian oil vs the climate; Environmental justice in danger; Agrobiodiversity; Cars and capitalism

Ecosocialist Bookshelf, February 2020

By Ian Angus on February 25, 2020 in Books & Reports, Ecosocialism

Robbery of nature; Choosing a future; Neoliberal lives; Indigenous resistance; Canadian oil vs the climate; Environmental justice in danger; Agrobiodiversity; Cars and capitalism

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Earth is burning
Burning tires

Capitalist roots of the environment crisis

By Ian Angus on February 18, 2020 in Australia, Capitalism, Climate Change

What’s behind the breakdown of the relationship between human society and the natural world on which we depend?

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Real action needed
Nnimmo Bassey

Record climate disasters hit Africa … and worse is coming

By Ian Angus on February 13, 2020 in Africa, Climate Change, Food and Farming

Nnimmo Bassey: Africa will face calamitous roasting unless radical social and ecological transformation starts soon

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Profits versus planet
CO2 Flames

Climate change, emissions, and the fat tail risk

By Ian Angus on February 11, 2020 in Climate Change, Corporate polluters, Fossil Fuel, Greenhouse Gas

Existing emission policies will not harm oil and gas profits. They also won’t stop global warming from rising to globally destructive levels

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John Molyneux

Organizing to amplify ecosocialist voices around the world

By Ian Angus on February 7, 2020 in Ecosocialism, Movement Building

African journal interviews John Molyneux, a founder of the new Global Ecosocialist Network, on the challenges before ecosocialists today.

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Profit versus life
Blue Acceleration Figure

Blue Acceleration: Capitalism’s growing assault on the oceans

By Ian Angus on February 5, 2020 in Metabolic Rift, Mining, Oceans & Fishing, Oil, Oil Industry, Science

“A new phase in humanity’s relationship with the biosphere, where the ocean is not only crucial but is being fundamentally changed”

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Cutting Pollution
At a bridge in central Cuba, near the city of Cienfuegos, a team of Cuban and U.S. scientists collect water. They explored twenty-five Cuban rivers and found little damage after centuries of sugarcane production.

In Cuba, greener farming means cleaner rivers

By Ian Angus on January 31, 2020 in Cuba, Food and Farming, Pollution, Science, water

Joint Cuba-U.S. study finds sustainable agriculture in Cuba keeps river pollution far below levels in U.S. waterways

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Movement Building
GEN logo Smal

Announcing the Global Ecosocialist Network

By Ian Angus on January 30, 2020 in Ecosocialism, Movement Building, Organizations

Activists on five continents form a new international association, a network of ecosocialists to coordinate activity and build worldwide resistance to capitalist ecocide

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Industrial Disease
coronavirus

Coronavirus: Agribusiness breeds another deadly epidemic

By Ian Angus on January 29, 2020 in China, Food and Farming, Health threats

Once again, authorities are scrambling to deal with a fast-spreading disease after the fact, while the systemic causes remain in place. 

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Debate
Debate 2

Abstract environmental ethics provide no guide to action

By Ian Angus on January 29, 2020 in Ecosoc Notebook, Ecosocialism

After 50 years of debate, academic philosophers of environmental ethics still interpret the world in various ways, but aren’t much help in changing it.

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Behind the noise
One percent Income share

The phony war over inequality statistics

By Ian Angus on January 28, 2020 in Books & Reports, Capitalism, Inequality & Class

Methodological nitpicking obscures the undeniable fact that a ludicrously small number of individuals hold the same amount of wealth as billions of others

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READERS COMMENT

  • Chris Warren on Reconsidering Nuclear Power
  • Henrik Wahren on Capitalist roots of the environment crisis
  • Helen Camakaris on Capitalist roots of the environment crisis
  • Thomas Midgely on Reconsidering Nuclear Power
  • Stephen on Record climate disasters hit Africa … and worse is coming
  • Martin on Blue Acceleration: Capitalism’s growing assault on the oceans
  • emerson on Record climate disasters hit Africa … and worse is coming

ECOSOCIALIST VIDEOS

Why we need an ecosocialist revolution

The discovery and rediscovery of metabolic rift

Climate change, capitalism, and socialism

Fossil capitalism, ecosocialism, and the Anthropocene crisis

Marx’s ecological critique of political economy

The Anthropocene and Marxism Today

Why greens must be red and reds must be green

Stopping global warming: Three steps and a vision

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