“We have been mortgaging the health of future generations to realize economic and development gains in the present”
Deadly gains
Author Archive | Ian Angus
Deadly growth
Capitalism versus Life on Earth
Environmental destruction isn’t driven by human nature or mistaken ideas. It is an inevitable consequence of a system built on capital accumulation.
Book Review
Building resistance to Canada’s destructive mining industry
Long-time activist Joan Kuyek brilliantly shares lessons from decades of fighting environmental and community disruption by Canada’s mining corporations
Healing a metabolic rift
Urban farming as a response to climate-driven food crises: Cuba shows the way
Cuba’s experience suggests that urban farming can help stave off potential famine when the climate crisis cuts food production
Metabolic Rift
Climate change and overfishing boost toxic mercury levels in fish
Rising ocean temperatures are amplifying the accumulation of neurotoxins in fish that are often eaten by humans
A Renewed Call
For Feminist Resistance to Population Control
When population is cast as the problem, restrictions like fertility control, heightened borders, dispossession, detention and imprisonment are posed as the solutions
Reading from the left
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, November 2019
The red and green shelf is overflowing! Nine important new books address topics ranging from ecosocialism and rising seas to trees, growth and global poverty.
Book Review
Essays on the New Global Capitalism
‘Into the Tempest’ argues for a transnational popular project that leads to globalization from below
Music-Video
Greta’s Song: ‘I want you to panic!’
Composed and performed by The Sweet Janes, a duo based in Innsbruck, Austria.
Metabolic Rift
Disrupting the nitrogen cycle: Articles on a major metabolic rift
How the global nitrogen cycle has been disrupted by an economic system that values profits more than life itself.
Music-Video
Keep It In The Ground!
Produced by Bill Carroll, a musician and ecosocialist activist from Victoria, British Columbia.
Metabolic Rifts
How Capitalism ‘Solved’ the Nitrogen Crisis (continued)
Part Four of Ian Angus’s examination of the disruption of the global nitrogen cycle by an economic system that values profits more than life itself.
Metabolic rifts
When will the world’s wells run out of water?
Within three decades, almost 80% of the lands that depend on groundwater will start to reach their natural irrigation limits as the wells run dry.
Movement Building
Hands off Greta Thunberg!
Defenders of capitalism, joined by some on the left, are attacking the young woman who has become the symbol of a mass movement. Our place is by her side.
Reading Matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, October 2019
New books for reds and greens. Climate Change Guide; After Geoengineering; Environment & Health; Canada’s Climate Failure; Whose Water is it? Air Travel.
New study
Millions of years of low CO2 … until now
In Facing the Anthropocene, I showed that CO2 levels are higher than they have been for 800,000 years. New research extends that to 2.6 million years
There is no third way
Socialism is the only realistic solution to climate change
Capitalism will not and cannot prevent climate disaster. A socialist response at governmental and societal level is an historic necessity.
Metabolic Rifts
Capitalism ‘Solves’ the Nitrogen Crisis: A Brief History
Part Three of Ian Angus’s examination of the disruption of the global nitrogen cycle by an economic system that values profits more than life itself.
Reading matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, Sept. 2019, Part 2
We seldom receive enough new books to justify two columns in one month, but our red and green bookshelf is overflowing …
Is transition possible?
China and the Prospects for a Global Ecological Civilization
As the world leader in renewable energy capacity and production, China has the potential to open up a path for global ecosocialist transition, if …