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Author Archive | Ian Angus
Biodiversity under pressure
Rising heat may crash entire ecosystems
New studies show global warming is raising the risk of sudden, near total collapse of the wild populations that sustain human society.
Dead End Strategies
The dangerous folly of eco-primitivism: A reply to John Zerzan and Derrick Jensen
Once icons of radical environmentalism, the views they now promote lead to a self-defeating mix of scapegoating, isolation and nihilist adventurism.
Our Viral Future
Covid-19: Will Big Oil emerge more powerful than ever?
Oil companies face severe problems now, but in the long run the industry giants may be bigger and even more dangerous to life on Earth.
Book Review
Making room for humans in scientific ecology
20th century ecology moved from racism and eugenics to studies of undisturbed natural ecosystems. Today, ecological science must integrate social sciences.
Global crisis
Angus interview in Peruvian indigenous newspaper
Lucha Indigena (Indigenous Struggle), edited by legendary Peruvian peasant leader Hugo Blanco, translates ‘Ecosocialism or Barbarism’ interview
Book Review
Making the case that green politics must be ecosocialist
Essays by pioneering ecosocialist Joel Kovel argue that radical social change is the only way to prevent ecocatastrophe
Pandemic
Pulverized: Capitalism, Africa and Covid-19
In the Global North it is a ‘novel threat.’ In the South, it extends the common experience of brutal assaults accompanied by waves of illness and death
Superbugs in the air
Burned or buried, garbage spreads antibiotic resistance
New research shows that breathing near a site where trash is burned or buried may be dangerous to your health.
Global crisis
Ecosocialism or barbarism: African journal interviews C&C editor Ian Angus
“A conscious and collective struggle to stop capitalism’s hell-bound train is our only hope for a better world.”
Ecosocialists report from Manila
Philippines: A weak but authoritarian state confronts Covid-19
Instead of providing testing and basic care, the Duterte regime is attacking the poor. Cuba and Vietnam offer examples to emulate.
Reading, red and green
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, March 2020
Six new books to read while maintaining social distance. Yellow Earth; Socialist Practice; Friedrich Engels; Chicken History; Traveling Plants; Coal and Empire
Climate Apartheid
Global warming is driving increased inequality
The gap between the world’s richest and poorest countries is 25 percent larger than it would have been without climate change
Disaster capitalism
‘Venture philanthropists’ seek climate change profits in Myanmar
The last remaining underexploited economy in southeast Asia offers new opportunities for capital accumulation with a green veneer
Our burning Earth
By 2100, heat stress may affect over 1.2 billion people a year
Study highlights combined effects of extreme heat and humidity, which are especially dangerous to human health
Agribusiness kills
Capitalist agriculture and Covid-19: A deadly combination
A socialist biologist explains the tight links between new viruses, industrial food production, and the profitability of multinational corporations.
Global climate report
Confirmed: 2015 to 2019 were the five hottest years on record
Meteorologists agree that temperatures will continue to rise, and record years like 2019 are becoming the new baseline
C&C Forum
An ecosocialist case for CO2 removal technology
David Schwartzman argues that we can’t prevent catastrophic climate change without negative carbon emission technologies
Many leaks unreported
In northeastern BC, over 10% of oil and gas wells are leaking methane
There is no monitoring program for abandoned wells, so they can leak for a long time before emissions are detected and repaired.
Rainforest Resistance
Indigenous people may be the Amazon’s last hope
“We are protecting our land and the life on it. We have to preserve this life for our children’s future.”