This year’s increase in carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and industry is the largest in seven years. CO2 in the atmosphere has hit a new high.
Heating the Greenhouse
Author Archive | Ian Angus
Reading matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, December 2018
Five important new books for reds and greens. Dust Bowls of Empire. Oil, Power and War. The Big Muddy. Never Home Alone. The Neoliberal Diet.
Save Our Future!
Photo essay: Australian students strike for climate action
Thousands of Australian primary and high school students walked out of school on November 30 to demand real action on climate change.
Capitalism kills
Climate change health impacts: ‘compounded and overwhelming’
Lancet climate change report shows worsening health risks from heat and heatwaves, infectious diseases, and food security
Essential reading
‘Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism’ wins the 2018 Deutscher Prize
Kohei Saito honored for his brilliant study of Marx’s views on the relationship between society and nature
Crisis confirmed
The climate report that Trump tried to bury
Summary of major U.S. government report that warns of major threats to human health and safety, quality of life, and economic growth
Chemical killers
Herbicides undermine antibiotics, threaten medical care
Study says bacteria develop antibiotic resistance up to 100,000 times faster when exposed to the world’s most widely used herbicides, Roundup and Kamba
Environmental injustice
New maps of land destruction show why caravans flee Central America
Detailed maps show worldwide land degradation, including the deforestation that is now forcing migrants to leave Guatemala and Honduras
Book Review
Can the working class change the world?
A superb popular account of what’s wrong with capitalism and what working people must do to get rid of it. Highly recommended!
Movement building
Marxist ecosocialism and the value debate
Many socialists have contributed to the debate on Marxism, nature, and value, strengthening our common understanding of the enemy we face and the movement we must build.
Fouling the Earth
It’s time to break up capitalism’s love affair with plastic
A valuable invention is massively misused in the service of profit, producing unprecedented waste and pollution. How can we stop the plastic plague?
Capitalism today
Modern slave ships overfish the oceans
‘Seafood caught illegally or under conditions of modern slavery is laundered by mixing it with legally caught fish before it enters the supply chain.’
Book review
Fossil fuel production and use exploded in the 20th century. Can we stop the flow in the 21st?
In ‘Burning Up’ Simon Pirani shows why fossil fuel consumption has grown so fast, and why only radical social change can prevent climate disaster now
Red & Green Reads
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, November 2018
A bumper crop! Eight new books on biofuels, nutrition fraud, imperialism, post-capitalism, indigenous sovereignty, coral reefs, moral economists, and chicken
Biodiversity
Capitalism is killing the world’s wildlife, not ‘humanity’
By failing to name the system responsible, the new Living Planet report undermines its own call for a collective response to the biodiversity crisis.
Book Review
The Logic of Human Survival
Veteran socialist says ‘A Redder Shade of Green’ should be read by all who are concerned with climate change and the degradation of the environment.
Corruption and Militarization
The Tragedy of American Science
Corporations and the Pentagon have transformed science from a creative force for human advancement into its destructive and antihuman opposite.
World Health Organization
Over 90% of the world’s children breathe toxic air every day
UN report says polluted air is poisoning millions of children. In 2016 alone, 600,000 children under 15 died from infections caused by polluted air.
Book Review
Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future
In ‘Climate Justice,’ grassroots activists from around the world, mostly women, tell their stories. A powerful and compassionate book.
Climate change vs biodiversity
Greenhouse gases and mass extinctions: Speed kills
In past warming events, atmospheric CO2 rose too fast for many species to adapt. Today it is rising 10 times faster than at any time in 66 million years.