Ian Angus's Blog, page 7

How climate change destroyed a tar sands boomtown

Fire Weather: A remarkable account of the reality of disaster in modern neoliberal society

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Overshoot-and-return: A dangerous climate change illusion

Once the 1.5°C limit is passed, there will be no going back

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Global water supply faces unprecedented stress

The hydrological cycle has accelerated, becoming more erratic and unpredictable

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485 million years of heat, carbon dioxide, and human survival

Humans and our hominid ancestors have only lived in the most recent cool period

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Climate crisis enters ‘critical and unpredictable new phase’

Scientists warn: 'The future of humanity hangs in the balance.'

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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, October 2024

New books on oil, empire, the science of death, fungal health threats, degrowth, and socialist strategy

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The environmental cost of Israel’s genocide in Gaza

Western support of war means support for unprecedented environmental destruction

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Profiteering lets Mpox epidemic spread out of control

Four years on, nothing has been learned from COVID-19

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Methane emissions rising faster than ever

Atmospheric concentrations of methane are now the highest they've been for at least 800,000 years

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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, September 2024

A new translation of Marx’s Capital, the role of animal poop in Earth’s life support systems, and more

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