Tag - Ian Angus

Capitalism • Ecosocialism • History • Oceans & Fishing

Intensive Fishing and the Birth of Capitalism, Part 3

April 5, 2021

How England’s government-licensed pirates stole the Newfoundland fishery from Europe’s largest...

Books & Reports • Energy • Food and Farming • Marxist Ecology

Ecosocialist Bookshelf March 2021, Part Two

March 25, 2021

Marx on stealing wood, Human development in the Anthropocene, Solar energy, Nature dialogs, and two...

Capitalism • Food and Farming • History • Metabolic Rift • Oceans & Fishing

Intensive Fishing and the Birth of Capitalism, Part 2

March 8, 2021

While treasure fleets carried silver to Spain, far more ships were carrying men, fish and whale oil...

Capitalism • History • Metabolic Rift • Oceans & Fishing

Intensive Fishing and the Birth of Capitalism, Part 1

February 3, 2021

Beginning a series on the role of fishing in the birth and spread of capitalism, and the role of...

Anthropocene • Books & Reports • Greenhouse Gas • Science

Facing the Anthropocene: An Update

November 24, 2020

Recent scientific work strengthens and extends the arguments in Ian Angus’s pathbreaking book on...

Anthropocene • Climate Change • Metabolic Rift • Oceans & Fishing • Science

The Heat of 3.6 Billion Atom Bombs

October 24, 2020

Continuing Ian Angus’s examination of the ‘deadly trio’ of CO2-driven assaults on ocean life. Part...