There is an enormous unused human potential waiting to be drawn into the job of saving the ecosphere. How can it be mobilized?
The transition we need, 2
Author Archive | Ian Angus
The transition we need, 1
Carbon pricing and new technology won’t stop climate change
We need truly radical measures, and ultimately a different kind of government with the political will to lead, coordinate and consolidate the transition
Metabolic rift
Broiler chickens: The defining species of the Anthropocene?
Forget jokes about crossing the road. New research identifies chickens as a vivid symbol of the transformation of the biosphere in our time
climate debt
Rich countries must pay for cyclone devastation in southern Africa
Climate change, caused by industrialized rich countries, is responsible for the disaster now unfolding in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi
movement building
Help relaunch Science for the People magazine!
Climate & Capitalism supports the Kickstarter campaign to re-establish Science for the People as a powerful voice for radical science
Global links
3-5°C rise now ‘locked-in’ for the Arctic
UN report says emission cuts will not stop Arctic devastation or worldwide sea level rise
Healthy people, healthy planet
Defining a safe operating space for food systems in the Anthropocene
A food system revolution is urgently needed, to provide healthy diets for all while preventing irreversible damage to the Earth System.
New books for reds and greens
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, March 2019
Where climate change may lead, the global water crisis, Europe’s Little Ice Age, the human costs of Haiti’s unending catastrophes, against constructing nature
Perspectives
If capitalism must end, what should replace it?
By keeping these simple ideas in mind in all our struggles, we can begin to create a world worthy of our best instincts and desires
Movement Building
Guiding principles for an Ecosocialist Green New Deal
Break the power of capitalists and guarantee a vibrant natural world that is home for humanity and all forms of life, for many generations to come.
Book Review
Good intentions won’t bring climate justice
Mary Robinson wants change, but her commitment to global elites prevents her from confronting the system that causes and maintains global injustice.
Movement Building
Illusion or Advance? Ecosocialists debate the ‘Green New Deal’
Activists from System Change Not Climate Change discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the Green New Deal proposal, and how the left should respond.
Reading matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, February 2019
Six new books expose environmentalism’s false friends, analyse the idea of ‘environment’, explain renewable energy, trace the history of oceans, expose Monsanto’s Round-Up, and examine UK science denial
Urgent Appeal
Support the Trans Mountain protestors defense fund!
An appeal from David Suzuki: The activists who are fighting the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion need your help now!
Movement building
An outline of ‘Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia’
How can socialism be rejuvenated to ensure social parity, democratic processes, and environmental sustainability for humanity?
Interview
John Bellamy Foster on the ‘Green New Deal’
To bring about meaningful change, the resolution proposed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez must be part of an ecological revolution with a broad social base.
Inequality rising
An open letter to Steven Pinker (and Bill Gates, for that matter) about global poverty
Defenders of capitalism claim global poverty is declining. Their arguments are intellectually dishonest and unsupported by facts.
New thinking needed
Why the Anthropocene is not ‘climate change’ — and why that matters
Climate is just one part of the Earth System. If we focus on that alone, we will misunderstand the complexity of the danger posed by unprecedented planetary change.
Book Review
Indigenous sovereignty and socialism in Canada
A Marxist perspective on the mass Indigenous movement that is in the vanguard of the fight for climate justice in Canada
Book Review
What’s the alternative to factory farms?
‘Farming, Food and Nature’ offers a powerful critique of industrial livestock production, but fails to challenge the profit-system that drives it.