A new reign of climate chaos
Photo by Dikaseva/Unsplash The following is an excerpt from Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System by author and ecosocialist activist Ian Angus, released on Ma...
Ian Angus
Agribusiness drives severe decline of essential insects
Photo by Phil Fiddyment/Flickr Insects are in decline across the world because of industrial farming and heavy pesticide use which are threatening food production, according to the 2020 Insect Atlas,…
The Politics of Ecosocialism
View of the refinery from the Fourth Congress of Biological Diversity, Paraguana. Photo by Quincy Saul/Ecosocialist Horizons Ian Angus is interviewed by Rebel News, a critical source of news and…
20 Essential Books on Marxist Ecology
Adapted by WhoWhatWhy from Evrik and Mets501 / Wikimedia and Rafaelgr It’s two years since I published my last Essential Reading list. Since then I’ve received many suggestions for additions,…
A Marxist History of Capitalism
A Marxist History of Capitalism Henry Heller Routledge, 2018 Since the 1970s, Marxist discussion of how and when capitalism was born has been dominated by two competing academic currents. World-System…
Memo to Jacobin: Ecomodernism is not ecosocialism
“To say that ‘science and technology can solve all our problems in the long run,’ is much worse than believing in witchcraft.” —István Mészáros This summer, the left-wing magazine Jacobin…
Green energy won’t save the earth without social change
Photo by Chris Lim The most popular techno-fix for global warming is green energy. If energy companies would only deploy wind, hydro, solar, geothermal or nuclear, then emission-intensive fossil fuels…
A plague of David Attenborough
Last week, British broadcaster and naturalist David Attenborough devoted over a third of a widely reported interview to his claim that human beings are “a plague on the earth.” “It’s…
Secret documents expose Ottawa’s tar sands enemies list
As the Harper government works with oil companies to slander and discredit opponents of tar sands, will the supposedly impartial regulator be trusted? (Greenpeace Canada, January 26, 2012) As controversy…