Climate & Capitalism / Ian Angus

Ecosocialist Bookshelf, November 2025 | Climate & Capitalism Part One of this month’s bumper crop of books for reds and greens…

Ecosocialist Bookshelf, November 2025. Part One of this month’s bumper crop of books for reds and greens
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Faster sea level rise threatens China’s coastal megacities | Climate & Capitalism Thermal expansion and melting glaciers endanger some of the world’s largest urban centers…

Faster sea level rise threatens China’s coastal megacities. Thermal expansion and melting glaciers endanger some of the world’s largest urban centers.
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Climate change is ungreening the oceans | Climate & Capitalism A vital life-support system is in decline, threatening food chains and the climate…

CLIMATE CHANGE IS UNGREENING THE OCEANS. A vital life-support system is in decline, threatening food chains and the climate.
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Bolivia Burning: Inside a Latin American Ecocide | Climate & Capitalism Documentary film exposes the role of colonisers, agribusiness in causing massive forest fires…

Bolivia Burning: Inside a Latin American Ecocide. Documentary film exposes the role of colonisers, agribusiness in causing massive forest fires.
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, October 2025 | Climate & Capitalism Plastics, forever chemicals and more: four books examine the poisoning of the biosphere…

Ecosocialist Bookshelf, October 2025 -- Plastics, forever chemicals and more: four books examine the poisoning of the biosphere. climateandcapitalism.com/2025/10/17/e...

Amazon fires cause record-breaking CO2 emissions | Climate & Capitalism 700% increase means most Amazon greenhouse gas in 2024 came from fires…

Amazon fires cause record-breaking CO2 emissions: most Amazon greenhouse gas in 2024 came from fires, not deforestation.
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Has the Anthropocene Been Canceled? - Monthly Review

My latest for Monthly Review: What's behind the decision not to recognize the Anthropocene as a formal geological epoch? How did the organization undermine the conclusions of top scientists? What are the implications for the public debate about the planetary crisis? monthlyreview.org/articles/has...

‘Carbon markets dispossess our territories and criminalize our ways’ | Climate & Capitalism Indigenous meeting in Peru condemns ‘carbon offset’ schemes that steal forests…

‘Carbon markets dispossess our territories and criminalize our ways’
Indigenous meeting in Peru condemns ‘carbon offset’ schemes that steal forests
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Climate change adds 40 days to worldwide wildfire season | Climate & Capitalism Over half of annual burned area now occurs outside of natural burn season…

Climate change adds 40 days to worldwide wildfire season
Over half of annual burned area now occurs outside of natural burn season
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Fossil fuel production plans contradict climate promises | Climate & Capitalism Official plans show continued collective failure to lower global emissions…

Official plans aim for twice as much fossil fuel as the 1.5ºC goal allows. Production Gap Report exposes continued collective failure to lower global emissions
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Wildfire smoke impact far greater than estimates: thousands killed | Climate & Capitalism Study shows US death toll could reach 70,000 a year by 2050…

Wildfire smoke impact far greater than estimates: thousands killed
Study shows US death toll could reach 70,000 a year by 2050
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Global water cycle: increasingly erratic and extreme | Climate & Capitalism Swinging between deluge and drought, two-thirds of river networks have too much or too little water…

Global water cycle: increasingly erratic and extreme
Swinging between deluge and drought, two-thirds of river networks have too much or too little water
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Who is responsible for heat that kills? | Climate & Capitalism New study identifies corporate culprits in global social murder

Social Murder: Who is responsible for heat that kills?
New study identifies corporate culprits in deaths from rise in extreme heat waves
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60% of Earth’s land area is now out of the safe operating zone | Climate & Capitalism Structural changes have pushed a majority of land ecosystems into precarious conditions…

60% of Earth’s land area is now out of the safe operating zone.
Structural changes have pushed a majority of land ecosystems into precarious conditions
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, September 2025 | Climate & Capitalism Seven new books for reds and greens: slavery, antiscience, extraction, disruption, oil power, language…

Ecosocialist Bookshelf, September 2025
Seven new books for reds and greens: slavery, antiscience, extraction, disruption, oil power, language, & planning
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Worldwide, 2.1 billion people still lack safe drinking water | Climate & Capitalism Universal access to safe water and sanitation is increasingly out of reach…

Worldwide, 2.1 billion people still lack safe drinking water. climateandcapitalism.com/2025/08/26/2...

Ecosocialist Bookshelf August 2025 | Climate & Capitalism Six important books on slavery, capitalist diseases, climate action, scientists resisting, economic planning, and technofossils.

ECOSOCIALIST BOOKSHELF AUGUST 2025. Six important books on slavery, capitalist diseases, climate action, scientists resisting, economic planning, and technofossils. climateandcapitalism.com/2025/08/20/e...

Microsoft versus the planet | Climate & Capitalism Ex-employees highlight how Microsoft’s work for the fossil fuel industry is exacerbating the climate crisis.

Microsoft versus the planet: Ex-employees highlight how Microsoft’s work for the fossil fuel industry is exacerbating the climate crisis.
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For an ‘ecommunist’ alternative to degrowth and luxury communism | Climate & Capitalism If the working class does not tackle capitalism, then reactionary solutions will be imposed…

Interview with Argentine Marxist Esteban Mercatante about his new book Rojo fuego: Reflexiones comunistas frente a la crisis ecológica (Fiery red: Communist reflections on the ecological crisis),
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‘Climate tipping points pose catastrophic risks to billions of people’ | Climate & Capitalism Statement adopted by the Global Tipping Points Conference held in England, June 30-July 3…

‘Climate tipping points pose catastrophic risks to billions of people’
Statement adopted by the Global Tipping Points Conference held in England, June 30-July 3
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Can carbon dioxide removal save the climate? | Climate & Capitalism Beyond wishful thinking: Can technology stop global heating by sucking CO2 out of the air?

Beyond wishful thinking: Can technology stop global heating by sucking CO2 out of the air?
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Monthly Review | The War Against the Commons: Dispossession and Resistance in the Making of Capitalism For five centuries, the development of capitalism has been inextricably connected to the expropriation of working people from the land they depended on for subsistence. Through ruling class assaults…

"Perhaps the biggest compliment for Angus’s book is that it is equally valuable to those who seek to understand the world as it is to those who seek to change it." --International Review of Social History reviews THE WAR AGAINST THE COMMONS. monthlyreview.org/product/the-...

Global heating isn’t just getting worse. It is getting worse faster. | Climate & Capitalism Surplus heat is accumulating in the Earth system at an accelerating rate…

“Things aren’t just getting worse. They’re getting worse faster, We’re actively moving in the wrong direction. Some reports, there’s a silver lining. I don’t think there really is one in this one.”—study co-author Zeke Hausfather
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, June 2025 | Climate & Capitalism Recent books on water, capitalism and nature, anti-environmentalism, the Amazon, and Einstein’s socialism…

ECOSOCIALIST BOOKSHELF, JUNE 2025. Recent books on water, capitalism and nature, anti-environmentalism, the Amazon, and Einstein’s socialism. climateandcapitalism.com/2025/06/17/e...

1.5 is dead: How hot will the Earth get? | Climate & Capitalism Heating below 1.5 degrees is ‘technically possible,’ but it isn’t going to happen.

1.5 is dead: How hot will the Earth get?
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Carbon capture company emits more than it captures | Climate & Capitalism ‘Direct Air Capture’ only delays the elimination of fossil fuels…

Greenwash: Carbon capture company emits more than it captures.
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Some thoughts on Nature and the German Peasants’ War | Climate & Capitalism “The domain forest and other woods have been removed from our use, contrary to ancient tradition.”…

Some thoughts on Nature and the German Peasants’ War.
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, May 2025 | Climate & Capitalism The German Peasants’ War, Air, Amazonian struggles, Climate history, Class rule, and Marx’s late views…

ECOSOCIALIST BOOKSHELF MAY 2025. Important new books on the German Peasants’ War, Air, Amazonian struggles, Climate history, Class rule, and Marx’s late views. climateandcapitalism.com/2025/05/19/e...

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