Continuing Ian Angus’s examination of the ‘deadly trio’ of CO2-driven assaults on ocean life. Part two: The ocean is losing its breath.
Metabolic Rifts
Author Archive | Ian Angus
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.
Book Review
People’s Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons
Not just renewable energy, but global system change! A call to arms for a transformative approach to energy and a new society.
Pandemic responses
Covid-19: Asian contrasts and lessons
Some Asian countries have effectively contained the disease, while others have dramatically failed. What’s behind the differences?
Greenhouse Gas
‘Worst case’ emissions scenario is best match for reality
The IPCC’s most extreme projection of the impact of global climate policies is tracking within one percent of actual results.
Agrochemical pollution
Pesticides speed the spread of deadly parasites
Even low concentrations of pesticides can increase transmission and weaken efforts to control the second most common parasitic disease
Reading matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf: Mid-July, 2020
Six new books … Greta Thunberg’s story; Fighting corporate food systems; Revolutionaries on climate; Food and revolution; A case for meat; Our carbon world
Film review
Is lab-grown meat the future of food?
Documentary on ‘clean meat’ fails to question the technology’s rationale and blindly accepts dubious claims made by its promoters
Time to change course
False Promises: The ‘Green Revolution in Africa’ is failing on its own terms
The Gates Foundation’s billion dollar project is a vicious circle that drives small-scale food producers further and further into poverty
Blue Acceleration
Deep sea mining threatens more than the seafloor
The damage caused by proposed deep sea mining projects can extend hundreds to thousands of feet up
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