The gap between the world’s richest and poorest countries is 25 percent larger than it would have been without climate change
Climate Apartheid
Author Archive | Ian Angus
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.”
Mass Extinctions
A third or more of all species could be gone by 2070
Even if Paris goals are met, climate change could wipe out 20% of species by 2070. If warming is greater, far more will die.
Eight new books
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, February 2020
Robbery of nature; Choosing a future; Neoliberal lives; Indigenous resistance; Canadian oil vs the climate; Environmental justice in danger; Agrobiodiversity; Cars and capitalism
Earth is burning
Capitalist roots of the environment crisis
What’s behind the breakdown of the relationship between human society and the natural world on which we depend?
Real action needed
Record climate disasters hit Africa … and worse is coming
Nnimmo Bassey: Africa will face calamitous roasting unless radical social and ecological transformation starts soon
Profits versus planet
Climate change, emissions, and the fat tail risk
Existing emission policies will not harm oil and gas profits. They also won’t stop global warming from rising to globally destructive levels
Organizing to amplify ecosocialist voices around the world
African journal interviews John Molyneux, a founder of the new Global Ecosocialist Network, on the challenges before ecosocialists today.
Profit versus life
Blue Acceleration: Capitalism’s growing assault on the oceans
“A new phase in humanity’s relationship with the biosphere, where the ocean is not only crucial but is being fundamentally changed”
Cutting Pollution
In Cuba, greener farming means cleaner rivers
Joint Cuba-U.S. study finds sustainable agriculture in Cuba keeps river pollution far below levels in U.S. waterways
Movement Building
Announcing the Global Ecosocialist Network
Activists on five continents form a new international association, a network of ecosocialists to coordinate activity and build worldwide resistance to capitalist ecocide
Industrial Disease
Coronavirus: Agribusiness breeds another deadly epidemic
Once again, authorities are scrambling to deal with a fast-spreading disease after the fact, while the systemic causes remain in place.
Debate
Abstract environmental ethics provide no guide to action
After 50 years of debate, academic philosophers of environmental ethics still interpret the world in various ways, but aren’t much help in changing it.
Behind the noise
The phony war over inequality statistics
Methodological nitpicking obscures the undeniable fact that a ludicrously small number of individuals hold the same amount of wealth as billions of others