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Has the Anthropocene Been Canceled? - Monthly Review

Climate & Capitalism / Ian Angus @ecosocialism1.bsky.social · 6d

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...

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‘Carbon markets dispossess our territories and criminalize our ways’ | Climate & Capitalism

Climate & Capitalism / Ian Angus @ecosocialism1.bsky.social · 15d

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

Climate change adds 40 days to worldwide wildfire season | Climate & Capitalism

Climate & Capitalism / Ian Angus @ecosocialism1.bsky.social · 19d

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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Over half of annual burned area now occurs outside of natural burn season…

Fossil fuel production plans contradict climate promises | Climate & Capitalism

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Climate & Capitalism / Ian Angus @ecosocialism1.bsky.social · 19d

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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Official plans show continued collective failure to lower global emissions…

Wildfire smoke impact far greater than estimates: thousands killed | Climate & Capitalism

Climate & Capitalism / Ian Angus @ecosocialism1.bsky.social · 23d

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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Study shows US death toll could reach 70,000 a year by 2050…

Global water cycle: increasingly erratic and extreme | Climate & Capitalism

Climate & Capitalism / Ian Angus @ecosocialism1.bsky.social · 23d

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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Swinging between deluge and drought, two-thirds of river networks have too much or too little water…

Who is responsible for heat that kills? | Climate & Capitalism

Climate & Capitalism / Ian Angus @ecosocialism1.bsky.social · 26d

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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New study identifies corporate culprits in global social murder

60% of Earth’s land area is now out of the safe operating zone | Climate & Capitalism

Climate & Capitalism / Ian Angus @ecosocialism1.bsky.social · Sep 7

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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Structural changes have pushed a majority of land ecosystems into precarious conditions…

Ecosocialist Bookshelf, September 2025 | Climate & Capitalism

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Climate & Capitalism / Ian Angus @ecosocialism1.bsky.social · Sep 1

Ecosocialist Bookshelf, September 2025
Seven new books for reds and greens: slavery, antiscience, extraction, disruption, oil power, language, & planning
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Seven new books for reds and greens: slavery, antiscience, extraction, disruption, oil power, language…

Worldwide, 2.1 billion people still lack safe drinking water | Climate & Capitalism

Climate & Capitalism / Ian Angus @ecosocialism1.bsky.social · Aug 26

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

Universal access to safe water and sanitation is increasingly out of reach…

Ecosocialist Bookshelf August 2025 | Climate & Capitalism

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Climate & Capitalism / Ian Angus @ecosocialism1.bsky.social · Aug 20

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...

Six important books on slavery, capitalist diseases, climate action, scientists resisting, economic planning, and technofossils.

Microsoft versus the planet | Climate & Capitalism

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Climate & Capitalism / Ian Angus @ecosocialism1.bsky.social · Aug 12

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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Ex-employees highlight how Microsoft’s work for the fossil fuel industry is exacerbating the climate crisis.

For an ‘ecommunist’ alternative to degrowth and luxury communism | Climate & Capitalism

Climate & Capitalism / Ian Angus @ecosocialism1.bsky.social · Jul 25

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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If the working class does not tackle capitalism, then reactionary solutions will be imposed…

‘Climate tipping points pose catastrophic risks to billions of people’ | Climate & Capitalism

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Climate & Capitalism / Ian Angus @ecosocialism1.bsky.social · Jul 9

‘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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Statement adopted by the Global Tipping Points Conference held in England, June 30-July 3…

Can carbon dioxide removal save the climate? | Climate & Capitalism

Climate & Capitalism / Ian Angus @ecosocialism1.bsky.social · Jun 29

Beyond wishful thinking: Can technology stop global heating by sucking CO2 out of the air?
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Beyond wishful thinking: Can technology stop global heating by sucking CO2 out of the air?

Ian Angus. The War Against the Commons. Dispossession and Resistance in the Making of Capitalism. Monthly Review Press, New York 2023. 277 pp. $26.00. (Cloth: $89.00; E-book: $26.00.) | International ...

Climate & Capitalism / Ian Angus @ecosocialism1.bsky.social · Jun 24

Full review: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Ian Angus. The War Against the Commons. Dispossession and Resistance in the Making of Capitalism. Monthly Review Press, New York 2023. 277 pp. $26.00.)

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Climate & Capitalism / Ian Angus @ecosocialism1.bsky.social · Jun 24

"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-...

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…

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Climate & Capitalism / Ian Angus @ecosocialism1.bsky.social · Jun 19

“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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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…

Ecosocialist Bookshelf, June 2025 | Climate & Capitalism

Climate & Capitalism / Ian Angus @ecosocialism1.bsky.social · Jun 17

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...

Recent books on water, capitalism and nature, anti-environmentalism, the Amazon, and Einstein’s socialism…

1.5 is dead: How hot will the Earth get? | Climate & Capitalism

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Climate & Capitalism / Ian Angus @ecosocialism1.bsky.social · Jun 5

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

Carbon capture company emits more than it captures | Climate & Capitalism

Climate & Capitalism / Ian Angus @ecosocialism1.bsky.social · Jun 3

Greenwash: Carbon capture company emits more than it captures.
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‘Direct Air Capture’ only delays the elimination of fossil fuels…

Some thoughts on Nature and the German Peasants’ War | Climate & Capitalism

Climate & Capitalism / Ian Angus @ecosocialism1.bsky.social · May 23

Some thoughts on Nature and the German Peasants’ War.
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“The domain forest and other woods have been removed from our use, contrary to ancient tradition.”…

Ecosocialist Bookshelf, May 2025 | Climate & Capitalism

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Climate & Capitalism / Ian Angus @ecosocialism1.bsky.social · May 19

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...

The German Peasants’ War, Air, Amazonian struggles, Climate history, Class rule, and Marx’s late views…

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Climate & Capitalism / Ian Angus @ecosocialism1.bsky.social · May 17

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