Ian Angus discusses the scientific developments that led Marx to develop metabolic rift theory in the 1800s, and a new generation to rediscover it the 21st century.
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New book launched
‘An important contribution to the fight to stop capitalist destruction’
Book review and full video of meeting to launch ‘System Change Not Climate Change: A Revolutionary Response to Environmental Crisis.’
Creating an Ecological Society
Fred Magdoff on Climate Change, Capitalism, and Socialism
Video: What would a just and ecologically sustainable society look like? If the current economic system can’t respond, what strategies will advance our struggle?
Global heat
Atmospheric carbon dioxide level hits all-time high
Seventh consecutive year of steep increases leads to the highest greenhouse gas concentration recorded in 61 years of observations
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Fossil capitalism, ecosocialism, and the Anthropocene crisis
Ian Angus speaking in Ottawa following a tour of the National Gallery of Canada exhibit on the Anthropocene
NYC July 28
Science for the People relaunches with special issue on geoengineering
Radical science magazine returns with an important volume on climate engineering, a documentary on SftP’s history and rebirth, and a renewed commitment to activism.
Ecosocialism
Marx’s ecological critique of political economy
Video: John Bellamy Foster on “Marx’s ‘Capital’ and the Earth” — political economy and the materialist understanding of nature
Global crisis
Video: Ian Angus on the Anthropocene and ecosocialism
We now face the challenge of changing the world in the context of impending environmental disaster on a global scale. That’s reality in our time.
Interview
Video: Ian Angus on the Crisis of the Earth System
Dharna Noor of Real News Network interviews C&C editor Ian Angus about the proposal to declare a new geological epoch, and his new book, ‘Facing the Anthropocene.’
Stop the Pipeline!
Enbridge Mercenaries Attack Native American Protesters
Video: Democracy Now! reports from protests against pipeline that would carry about 500,000 barrels of crude per day from North Dakota’s Bakken oilfield
Marxism today
Science, Socialism and the Anthropocene
Ian Angus: “We must have a concrete materialist understanding of how our world works and is changing. Without that, our political views would be floating in mid-air, with no concrete foundation.”
Marxist ecology
The Anthropocene and Marxism Today
Video: John Bellamy Foster discusses the theoretical and programmatic challenges that the Anthropocene, a dangerous new epoch in planetary history, poses for socialists in the 21st century.
Book Launch
Video: Ian Angus introduces ‘Facing the Anthropocene’
Author’s presentation at book launch meeting for ‘Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System,’ at the Socialism for the 21st Century Conference in Sydney, Australia, May 13, 2013.
Capitalism today
Understanding and confronting the great inequality
Michael Yates explains why inequality matters, how it negatively affects nearly every aspect of our lives, how its underlying causes are rooted in modern capitalism, and why informed radical action by working people, the unemployed and the poor is needed to overcome the great inequality that marks our time.
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Film: Scotland’s Landscape of Fear
Liam Young examines the causes of environmental damage in Scotland and the impact communities can have when they take control of their own resources.
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Climate change: It’s going to take a revolution
A new video by Suhail Ilyas: The growing strength of the climate movement around the world gives us great hope, but only a revolution can save the world for future generations.
Naomi Klein: Capitalism and the Climate
Video: The author of ‘This Changes Everything’ speaking at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney, Australia, September 5, 2015
NASA: More emissions = More megadroughts
Rising greenhouse gas emissions mean U.S. droughts during the last half of this century could be drier and longer than any in the last 1,000 years
400 ppm – an eco-political music video
From Canadian musician/activist Bill Carroll, a very blue song and video that explains climate crisis and climate justice in three minutes.
Bugger the Bankers
A powerful and effective (and true and funny) protest song for our time