Climate change in the Anthropocene: An unstoppable drive to Hothouse Earth?
By Ian Angus, Climate and Capitalism
Can the global climate be stabilized before runaway change creates conditions that are too hot for human civilization and deadly for most species?
The Keeling Curve at 60: A Portrait of Climate Crisis
By Ian Angus, Climate and Capitalism
What the Keeling Curve shows, then, are two separate but connected rifts in Earth’s metabolism. First, an increase in total CO2 that breaks with at least 800,000 years of history. Second, increased CO2 is changing the way that plants absorb and emit CO2, and that in turn is altering a seasonal cycle that has likely been unchanged for hundreds of millions of years.
Five Revolutions: How Bacteria Created the Biosphere and caused the First Climate Crisis
By Ian Angus, Climate and Capitalism
When Marx was writing, the science of metabolic cycles was in its infancy: an enormous amount has been learned since then, especially in recent decades. To be true to Marx’s method, ecosocialists must, as he did, base our understanding of nature on the best contemporary scientific work.
The Progress of this Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World
By Ian Angus, Climate and Capitalism
Now Andreas Malm, who won the prestigious Deutscher Memorial Prize for his 2015 book Fossil Capital, has written a powerful essay “to scrutinize some of the theories circulating at the nature/society junction in the light of climate change.” In clear and convincing prose, he shows that the “end of nature” thesis stems from deep confusion about the complex relationship between human society and the rest of nature.
Do Seven Cheap Things Explain the History of Capitalism?
By Ian Angus, Climate & Capitalism
Sadly, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things replaces concrete analysis with an artificial schema that reduces the complex organic relationship between society and the rest of nature to “cheap things.” It misrepresents or ignores ecological science. The programme it promotes is so vague that it can scarcely be called liberal.
Major Study Shows Species Loss Destroys Essential Ecosystems
By Ian Angus, Climate and Capitalism
How serious is the loss of species globally? Are material cycles in an ecosystem with few species changed? In order to find this out, the “Jena Experiment” was established in 2002, one of the largest biodiversity experiments worldwide.
Report Shows Climate Records Set in 2016. Yes, the World is Warming!
By Ian Angus, Climate and Capitalism
The new State of the Climate report confirms that 2016 was as the warmest year in 137 years of record-keeping. Other climate indicators that set new records include greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level, and sea surface temperature.
Key to the Leap: Leave the Oil in the Soil
By Ian Angus, John Riddell, Climate and Capitalism
The world ecological crisis is now apparent in abrupt climate shifts that are impossible to miss even in capitalist heartlands.