Category - Health threats

Profitable Poisons

Plastic pollution is worsened by climate change

Chemical pollution drives prostate cancer, falling sperm counts

Fossil fuel projects threaten health and rights of two billion people

Climate change costs millions of lives each year

Ecosocialist Bookshelf, October 2025

Wildfire smoke impact far greater than estimates: thousands killed

Worldwide, 2.1 billion people still lack safe drinking water

Ecosocialist Bookshelf August 2025

Will Mpox be the next global threat to human health?

Ecosocialist Bookshelf, January 2025

US government knowingly promotes deadly fertilizer

Extreme heat killed over 1300 Hajj pilgrims in 2024

The record-breaking human costs of climate change

Extreme heatwaves exceed forecasts, kill thousands

Ubiquitous plastic: A deadly threat to human health

Ecosocialist Bookshelf, October 2024

Profiteering lets Mpox epidemic spread out of control

Extremely hot days double for half a billion children

Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues, Part 8: Deadly Heat

Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues. Part 7: Wildlife farms and wet markets

Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues, Part 6: China’s Livestock Revolution

For wildlife, the next pandemic is already here

Ecosocialist Bookshelf, June 2024

COVID wiped out 10 years of life expectancy gains

Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues. Part 5: The Pandemic Machines

Ecosocialist Bookshelf, May 2024

What are you eating?

Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues, Part 4: Deforestation and Spillover

Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues, Part 3: Systematically Unprepared