The damage caused by proposed deep sea mining projects can extend hundreds to thousands of feet up
Blue Acceleration
Author Archive | Ian Angus
deadly heat
Frightening numbers: Biosphere heating accelerates
The Earth is warming at an astounding speed, equivalent to absorbing 907 times the USA’s annual energy use, far faster than biological species can adapt
Lockdown reading
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, Pandemic Edition (July 2020)
A special edition of Ecosocialist Bookshelf: six books we recommend for understanding the deadliest global health crisis of our time
Climate crisis
Heatwaves are longer and more frequent, worldwide
New study provides ‘unequivocal indicators’ that global warming is not just underway but speeding up. Scientists insist ‘the time for inaction is over.’
Covid kills
Not just meat: All farm and food workers are in peril
The profit-driven food system endangers the lives of millions of low-paid workers. It’s time to adopt more humane and robust methods of feeding humanity.
Capitalism fouls things up
Tonnes of ‘recycled’ European plastic pollute the oceans
Researchers find that much supposedly recycled plastic from Europe is in fact exported to Southeast Asia and dumped
Break Neoliberalism
A Ten-Point Agenda for the Global South After COVID-19
Neoliberalism has driven the the world system into a cul-de-sac. The Global South must lead in building a new international economic order
Real rides and fantasies
Cars and drivers in the age of inequality
A magazine for fans of very expensive cars unexpectedly exposes the gross economic inequality that characterizes the U.S. today
Xenophobia weakens the fight
Banning wild animal sales won’t prevent another pandemic
‘If wildlife-oriented solutions distract from the weaknesses that COVID-19 has exposed in global health security, the next pandemic will levy a higher toll.’
Insect Atlas 2020
Agribusiness drives severe decline of essential insects
Four million tonnes of poison a year, most produced by four agribusiness giants, are killing essential insects everywhere. One-third of species face extinction.
Global heating
Despite pandemic, CO2 hits new record
Greenhouse gas in atmosphere continues accelerating, reaching the highest concentration ever recorded in May 2020.
Reading in Lockdown
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, June 2020
Books we’re reading this month … The Life of V. Gordon Childe; The Tragedy of US Science; Four Billion Years of Life; Marx and Climate Crisis; Tell the Bosses We’re Coming; Essays on Red Rosa
New Study
Deadly combinations of heat and humidity increasing worldwide
‘Previous studies projected that this would happen several decades from now, but this shows it’s happening right now’
Interview with Fred Magdoff
Pandemic: ‘This is a time for bold programs from the left’
Covid-19 exposes capitalism’s gross inability to meet human needs. We must demand immediate measures to help people survive and recover.
New study
3.5 billion people may face ‘unlivable’ heat in 50 years
Every degree of global warming will push a billion people out of the human survival zone
Book Review
Capitalist Pigs: Pigs, pork, and power in America
How pigs became commodities and key elements of the interlocked social, economic and political institutions of US capitalism.
Movement Building
First meeting of Global Ecosocialist Network issues Covid-19 statement
Activists from four continents plan activity, elect steering committee, and call for solidarity with the workers who are risking their lives for us all
Pollution concentrates
Highest level of plastics found on seafloor
Ocean currents create ‘microplastic hotspots’ with up to 1.9 million pieces per square metre
Reading matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, April 2020
Six important new books: The Return of Nature … Deaths of Despair … Rebel Cinderella … August Bebel … The Green New Deal and Beyond … The Triumph of Doubt
Does Pandemic = Famine?
Covid-19 disrupts food systems; global hunger crisis looms
Global food price increases could be worse than in the 2008 crisis, causing major shortages and increased malnutrition in the global south.