Surplus heat is accumulating in the Earth system at an accelerating rate
New Climate indicators
Summer Reading
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, June 2025
Recent books on water, capitalism and nature, anti-environmentalism, the Amazon, and Einstein's socialism
Overheating
1.5 is dead: How hot will the Earth get?
It may be ‘technically possible,’ to keep global heating below 1.5 degrees, but it isn’t going to happen..
Greenwash
Carbon capture company emits more than it captures
CCS illusion only delays the elimination of fossil fuels
Who Rules?
Some thoughts on Nature and the German Peasants’ War
“The domain forest and other woods have been removed from our use, contrary to ancient tradition.”
Reading Matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, May 2025
The German Peasants' War, Air, Amazonian struggles, Climate history, Class rule, and Marx's late views
Don't Dig the unknown
Humans have observed less than 0.001% of the deep seafloor
New research shows why deep sea mining is a bad idea
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, April 2025
Recent books on ecosocialism, Africa, climate, capitalism, hunger, and much more
review
Against the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World
Capitalism thrives through economic crises. Will ecological crisis bring it down?
Evolving virus
Will Mpox be the next global threat to human health?
New mutations support sustained human-to-human transmission
Vandals in charge
Under Trump, climate denial is official US policy
Trump: 'We sit on the most oil and natural gas of any nation on earth, and we’re going to use it’
Debate
Growth or Degrowth? Ecosocialism confronts a false dichotomy
Stark binaries obscure the real problems we face in building a movement against capitalist ecocide
2025 Status Report
US wild bird populations continue steep decline
'A full-on emergency across all habitats'
Interview with Ian Angus
It’s time to stop capitalism’s runaway train!
Capitalism is undermining nature's metabolism, and Earth's life support systems are breaking down
Biofuel Hoax
Ethanol is just comically inefficient solar energy
Waste defined: devoting 30 million acres of prime farmland to growing fuel for cars
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, March 2025
Industrial agriculture, colonialism, Marx and democracy, human history, materialism, and Ricardo's economics
Interview
To save the environment, we must end the profit system
Brazilian magazine interviews Ian Angus about capitalism, metabolic rifts, degrowth, and ecosocialism
Book Review
What’s stopping a transition to renewable energy?
Despite falling costs, energy companies aren't switching. For capitalism, the price is wrong.
Global Commission warns
Earth’s water cycle is off balance for the first time in human history
‘We must reshape our shared relationship with water, across borders and cultures'
Reading, left and green
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, February 2025
Seven recent books on movement building, modern capitalism, evolution, ecology and colonialism