Nnimmo Bassey: Africa will face calamitous roasting unless radical social and ecological transformation starts soon
Real action needed
Author Archive | Ian Angus
Profits versus planet
Climate change, emissions, and the fat tail risk
Existing emission policies will not harm oil and gas profits. They also won’t stop global warming from rising to globally destructive levels
Organizing to amplify ecosocialist voices around the world
African journal interviews John Molyneux, a founder of the new Global Ecosocialist Network, on the challenges before ecosocialists today.
Profit versus life
Blue Acceleration: Capitalism’s growing assault on the oceans
“A new phase in humanity’s relationship with the biosphere, where the ocean is not only crucial but is being fundamentally changed”
Cutting Pollution
In Cuba, greener farming means cleaner rivers
Joint Cuba-U.S. study finds sustainable agriculture in Cuba keeps river pollution far below levels in U.S. waterways
Movement Building
Announcing the Global Ecosocialist Network
Activists on five continents form a new international association, a network of ecosocialists to coordinate activity and build worldwide resistance to capitalist ecocide
Industrial Disease
Coronavirus: Agribusiness breeds another deadly epidemic
Once again, authorities are scrambling to deal with a fast-spreading disease after the fact, while the systemic causes remain in place.
Debate
Abstract environmental ethics provide no guide to action
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.
Behind the noise
The phony war over inequality statistics
Methodological nitpicking obscures the undeniable fact that a ludicrously small number of individuals hold the same amount of wealth as billions of others
A continent on fire
Dystopia in the land of Oz: A climate change story
Australia’s out-of-control bushfires dramatically confirm the need for a government that doesn’t serve the interests of multi-national corporations
Climate crisis
2020 is hot, and it’s going to get much hotter
Emissions are rising. Each decade is warmer than the last. The oceans are heating up. Australia is burning. And that’s just January.
Energy debate
Reconsidering Nuclear Power
Socialists debate whether nuclear can generate the power needed to improve the economic well-being of the vast majority of people, without carbon emissions.
Great Transition Debate
‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ is a hoax
CSR is a public replations framework that lets corporations greenwash their public images, pretending to change so that everything can remain the same
Reading in a new decade
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, January 2020
Mining in late capitalism; Green New Deal; The Pentagon and climate change; Big Oil vs democracy; Climate justice; Nature in Canada; History of human labor
Speech at COP25
Greta Thunberg: ‘Clever statistics and creative PR’ cover inaction on climate crisis
At UN conference, Greta condemns government and corporate refusal to take effective action to reduce emissions.
Red and green reading
Ecosocialist Bookshelf: Best of 2019
This was a bumper year for books of interest to ecosocialists. Here are ten that we found particularly interesting or valuable, or both.
Deadly gains
A system that steals from our future
“We have been mortgaging the health of future generations to realize economic and development gains in the present”
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