Ian Angus's Blog, page 5

Ecosocialist Bookshelf, April 2025

Recent books on ecosocialism, Africa, climate, capitalism, hunger, and much more

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Against the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World

Capitalism thrives through economic crises. Will ecological crisis bring it down?

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Will Mpox be the next global threat to human health?

New mutations support sustained human-to-human transmission

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Under Trump, climate denial is official US policy

Trump: 'We sit on the most oil and natural gas of any nation on earth, and we’re going to use it’ 

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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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