Five book announcements and three book reviews. Origin of Covid-19; History of pollutions; Collapse of US farming; Capital today; Social justice and the environment
Red & Green Reads
Author Archive | Ian Angus
Metabolic rifts
Triple Crisis in the Anthropocene Ocean. Part Three: The Heat of 3.6 Billion Atom Bombs
Continuing Ian Angus’s examination of the ‘deadly trio’ of CO2-driven assaults on ocean life. Part three: ocean warming and permanent heatwaves
Movement Building
There is no shortcut to an ecosocialist future
Voting for liberals won’t work. Nor will isolated actions by small groups. Building mass movements is hard work, but it is the only way to win
NOAA REPORT
Earth just had its hottest September on record
Unprecedented global temperatures made last month the hottest September since 1880. 2020 will likely be one of the three warmest years on record.
Reading matter
Review: ‘China’s Engine of Environmental Collapse’
China’s reckless mode of development has savaged its environment and ecology. Is a new revolution the only way to prevent disaster?
Video Online
Mike Davis & Rob Wallace:
COVID, Capitalism, and Ecology
Recorded on October 17: An online discussion with the left’s top pandemic analysts.
Movement debate
Ecosocialism and/or Degrowth?
Should the ecological left aim to reduce all consumption, or to radically transform the prevalent type of consumption?
Biodiversity
Capitalism – not ‘humanity’ – is killing the world’s wildlife
The new Living Planet report grimly documents global environmental destruction, but lets the responsible systems and institutions off the hook
War Communism?
Book Review: Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency
Gradual reforms can’t do the job: only profoundly radical measures can ensure human survival in an epoch of global sickening.
An ecosocialist Manifesto
For an egalitarian, cooperative road to ecosocialism!
Australian ecosocialists call for a new mass movement to stop capitalism from destroying our common future.
Metabolic Rifts
Triple Crisis in the Anthropocene Ocean. Part Two: Running Low on Oxygen
Continuing Ian Angus’s examination of the ‘deadly trio’ of CO2-driven assaults on ocean life. Part two: The ocean is losing its breath.
Book Review
Nature and Society, from Karl Marx to Rachel Carson
In ‘The Return of Nature,’ John Bellamy Foster documents the chain of people and ideas that connects Marx and Engels to the 20th century’s greatest ecological thinkers
Metabolic Rifts
Triple Crisis in the Anthropocene Ocean.
Part One: Corrosive Seas
Scientists call them a ‘deadly trio.’ If acidification, oxygen loss, and overheating are not ended soon, a massive die-off of ocean life may be unstoppable.
Reading Matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, September 2020
Five new books and an essential magazine! Science for People; Katrina’s History; Small Farm Future; Mass Migration; Energy and Work; China’s Environmental Crisis
Movement Building
South African movement adopts Climate Justice Charter
Mass grassroots campaign calls for system change now and for a climate justice deal that ends the suffering of the most vulnerable and oppressed
Book Review
Ecosocialist critique lacks a concrete program for radical change
‘Climate Change Solutions’ shows that capitalism cannot solve the climate crisis, but the alternatives it offers don’t meet the challenge
Movement Building
Does fighting climate change require postponing the fight for system change?
Should ecosocialists put aside calls for radical social change until after we win reforms that solve the climate crisis within capitalism?
Red & green reading
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, August 2020
New books on fungi, climate & capital, food, bluefin tuna, & Cuban agriculture. PLUS new translations of Facing the Anthropocene, and two recent C&C book reviews
Book Review
Our History is the Future: The Dakota Access Pipeline and the Long Tradition of Resistance
The Dakota Access Pipeline fight continues the long history of struggle against colonial settler genocide and ecological vandalism.
Metabolic Rifts
Dead Zones: Industrial Agriculture versus Ocean Life
Worldwide, there are now over a thousand coastal areas where fish can’t breathe. The nitrogen that makes crops grow is also destroying offshore ecosystems.