Ian Angus's Blog, page 9

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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COVID wiped out 10 years of life expectancy gains

Global life expectancy falls back to 2012 level; Americas and SE Asia hit hardest

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Mythmaking 101: What went wrong with capitalism?

Did big government, monopoly power, and easy money end competitive capitalism's golden age?

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Despite promising climate action, oil and gas giants double down on drilling

All announced energy transition policies are 'insufficient' or 'grossly insufficient'

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Global people’s movements are leading the fight for our planet

A conversation with Ashley Dawson, author of Environmentalism from Below

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