Tag - Ian Angus

Metabolic Rift • Mining • Oceans & Fishing • Oil, Oil Industry • Science

Blue Acceleration: Capitalism’s growing assault on the oceans

February 5, 2020

"A new phase in humanity’s relationship with the biosphere, where the ocean is not only crucial but...

Capitalism • Climate Change • Corporate polluters • Ecosocialism • Metabolic Rift

Capitalism versus Life on Earth

November 19, 2019

Environmental destruction isn’t driven by human nature or mistaken ideas. It is an inevitable...

History • Marxist Ecology • Metabolic Rift • Science

Disrupting the nitrogen cycle: Articles on a major metabolic rift

October 25, 2019

How the global nitrogen cycle has been disrupted by an economic system that values profits more...

Corporate polluters • History • Marxist Ecology • Metabolic Rift • Science

How Capitalism ‘Solved’ the Nitrogen Crisis (continued)

October 16, 2019

Part Four of Ian Angus’s examination of the disruption of the global nitrogen cycle by an economic...

Anthropocene • Climate Change • Science

Millions of years of low CO2 … until now

October 4, 2019

In Facing the Anthropocene, I showed that CO2 levels are higher than they have been for 800,000...

Food and Farming • History • Latin America • Metabolic Rift • War, Imperialism

Capitalism ‘Solves’ the Nitrogen Crisis: A Brief History

September 30, 2019

Part Three of Ian Angus’s examination of the disruption of the global nitrogen cycle by an economic...