Methodological nitpicking obscures the undeniable fact that a ludicrously small number of individuals hold the same amount of wealth as billions of others
Behind the noise
Author Archive | Ian Angus
A continent on fire
Dystopia in the land of Oz: A climate change story
Australia’s out-of-control bushfires dramatically confirm the need for a government that doesn’t serve the interests of multi-national corporations
Climate crisis
2020 is hot, and it’s going to get much hotter
Emissions are rising. Each decade is warmer than the last. The oceans are heating up. Australia is burning. And that’s just January.
Energy debate
Reconsidering Nuclear Power
Socialists debate whether nuclear can generate the power needed to improve the economic well-being of the vast majority of people, without carbon emissions.
Great Transition Debate
‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ is a hoax
CSR is a public replations framework that lets corporations greenwash their public images, pretending to change so that everything can remain the same
Reading in a new decade
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, January 2020
Mining in late capitalism; Green New Deal; The Pentagon and climate change; Big Oil vs democracy; Climate justice; Nature in Canada; History of human labor
Speech at COP25
Greta Thunberg: ‘Clever statistics and creative PR’ cover inaction on climate crisis
At UN conference, Greta condemns government and corporate refusal to take effective action to reduce emissions.
Red and green reading
Ecosocialist Bookshelf: Best of 2019
This was a bumper year for books of interest to ecosocialists. Here are ten that we found particularly interesting or valuable, or both.
Deadly gains
A system that steals from our future
“We have been mortgaging the health of future generations to realize economic and development gains in the present”
Deadly growth
Capitalism versus Life on Earth
Environmental destruction isn’t driven by human nature or mistaken ideas. It is an inevitable consequence of a system built on capital accumulation.
Book Review
Building resistance to Canada’s destructive mining industry
Long-time activist Joan Kuyek brilliantly shares lessons from decades of fighting environmental and community disruption by Canada’s mining corporations
Healing a metabolic rift
Urban farming as a response to climate-driven food crises: Cuba shows the way
Cuba’s experience suggests that urban farming can help stave off potential famine when the climate crisis cuts food production
Metabolic Rift
Climate change and overfishing boost toxic mercury levels in fish
Rising ocean temperatures are amplifying the accumulation of neurotoxins in fish that are often eaten by humans
A Renewed Call
For Feminist Resistance to Population Control
When population is cast as the problem, restrictions like fertility control, heightened borders, dispossession, detention and imprisonment are posed as the solutions
Reading from the left
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, November 2019
The red and green shelf is overflowing! Nine important new books address topics ranging from ecosocialism and rising seas to trees, growth and global poverty.
Book Review
Essays on the New Global Capitalism
‘Into the Tempest’ argues for a transnational popular project that leads to globalization from below
Music-Video
Greta’s Song: ‘I want you to panic!’
Composed and performed by The Sweet Janes, a duo based in Innsbruck, Austria.
Metabolic Rift
Disrupting the nitrogen cycle: Articles on a major metabolic rift
How the global nitrogen cycle has been disrupted by an economic system that values profits more than life itself.
Music-Video
Keep It In The Ground!
Produced by Bill Carroll, a musician and ecosocialist activist from Victoria, British Columbia.
Metabolic Rifts
How Capitalism ‘Solved’ the Nitrogen Crisis (continued)
Part Four of Ian Angus’s examination of the disruption of the global nitrogen cycle by an economic system that values profits more than life itself.