Ian Angus's Blog, page 10

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

‘Climate change has already caused mass death on a pandemic-like scale’

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

Commercial farming of wild animals as luxury food for the rich triggered a global pandemic

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Carbon offsets are undermining real climate action

Offsetting allows corporations to increase emissions, while getting credit for pseudo-reductions elsewhere

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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, July 2024

Six new books on neoliberal ideology, oceans in crisis, Michigan's water wars, and the corrupt food industry

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

The near-universal adoption of mass production in confined facilities makes pandemics all but inevitable

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Two views (both wrong) on Marx, degrowth, and productivism

Saito versus Huber and Phillips: Opposing views both promote the myth of Marxist Prometheanism

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The biggest banks are financing climate chaos

Since the Paris Agreement, megabanks have invested $6.9 trillion in fossil fuels

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For wildlife, the next pandemic is already here

Disease from megafarms has killed millions of wild birds and mammals

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Temperature rise ‘unprecedented in the instrumental record’

1.3 °C jump in 2023; emissions budget shrinking fast

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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, June 2024

Unequal epidemics, biotech in Africa, capitalist greed, climate history, fracking, and corporate crime

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