Ian Angus's Blog, page 4

Growth or Degrowth? Ecosocialism confronts a false dichotomy

Stark binaries obscure the real problems we face in building a movement against capitalist ecocide

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US wild bird populations continue steep decline

'A full-on emergency across all habitats'

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It’s time to stop capitalism’s runaway train!

Capitalism is undermining nature's metabolism, and Earth's life support systems are breaking down

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Ethanol is just comically inefficient solar energy

Waste defined: devoting 30 million acres of prime farmland to growing fuel for cars

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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, March 2025

Industrial agriculture, colonialism, Marx and democracy, human history, materialism, and Ricardo's economics

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To save the environment, we must end the profit system

Brazilian magazine interviews Ian Angus about capitalism, metabolic rifts, degrowth, and ecosocialism

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What’s stopping a transition to renewable energy?

Despite falling costs, energy companies aren't switching. For capitalism, the price is wrong.

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Earth’s water cycle is off balance for the first time in human history

‘We must reshape our shared relationship with water, across borders and cultures'

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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, February 2025

Seven recent books on movement building, modern capitalism, evolution, ecology and colonialism

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We’re taking a break

Climate & Capitalism will resume publishing in mid-to-late February.

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