Recent scientific work strengthens and extends the arguments in Ian Angus’s pathbreaking book on fossil capitalism and the crisis of the Earth System
A network of global rifts
Author Archive | Ian Angus
Climate crisis
Greenhouse gases set new record, despite Covid-19 lockdown
Top meteorologist: only a complete transformation of our industrial, energy and transport systems can stop climate change
Reading for reds and greens
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, November 2020
Seven new books and four book reviews. Engels at 200; Capitalist Crime; Eleanor Marx on England; Wheat’s Biography; Early Capitalist Farming; Renewable Energy; Sinking Middle Class
Capitalism kills
Tyson managers laid bets on how many workers would get Covid-19
Lawsuit says Tyson Foods ordered sick workers to stay on the line, while bosses ran a pool on how many would contract the virus
Essential Reading
The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology
John Bellamy Foster’s brilliant recovery of a century of ecological and socialist thought will inform, enable, and inspire a new generation of reds and greens
Book Review
A People’s Guide to Capitalism
It’s not easy to explain Marx’s economics in a clear, straightforward and entertaining way, but Hadas Thier succeeds brilliantly. Nobody has done it better.
Red & Green Reads
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, October 2020
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
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