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To save the environment, we must end the profit system

Ian Angus — 2025-03-03T11:50:45Z

A Portuguese translation of my book, Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System, was published in Brazil in 2023. I was subsequently interviewed by Claudia Antunes for the multilingual magazine SUMAÚMA, a radical environmental journal that takes its name from one of the largest trees in the Amazon rainforest. SUMAÚMA published the interview in September 2024. This lightly edited version was published in Monthly Review in January 2025.—Ian Angus

- Features / Marxism, Ecosocialism

Ecosocialists debate James Hansen's climate change exit strategy

Ian Angus, John Bellamy Foster — 2018-03-25T11:09:04Z

Should ecosocialists reject a program that includes carbon pricing? Ian Angus and John Bellamy Foster reply to Daniel Tanuro's criticism of their approach “The right's green awakening”.

- Ecology / Ecology and the Environment, Ecosocialism, Ecology debate

Hijacking the Anthropocene

Ian Angus — 2015-06-02T09:22:35Z

How the anti-green â€˜Breakthrough Institute' misrepresents science to advance a technocratic agenda and undermine grassroots environmentalism.

- IV485 - June 2015 / Ecology and the Environment, Climate

Can capitalism prevent catastrophic climate change?

Ian Angus — 2014-05-20T13:41:23Z

It is now too late to stop global warming. Even if greenhouse gas production stopped today, two centuries of emissions will remain in the atmosphere for hundreds of years. The average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans will rise, with increasingly severe effects on climate and weather, no matter what we do.

- Reviews section / Ecology and the Environment, Reviews, Climate

Debate on exit strategy: Hansen's program is more than a carbon tax

Ian Angus — 2014-05-17T09:54:46Z

In A left â€˜exit strategy' from fossil fuel capitalism? [1], Norwegian socialist Anders Ekeland urges ecosocialists to support the climate change program proposed by one of the world's most-respected climate scientists, James Hansen, in many essays and speeches and in his book, Storms of my Grandchildren. In support of his argument, Ekeland particularly cites John Bellamy Fosters' article James Hansen and the climate-change exit strategy [2], published in Monthly Review in February 2013.

- Ecology / Ecology and the Environment, Debate section, Climate, Ecology debate

Capitalism, Agribusiness and the Food Sovereignty Alternative

Ian Angus — 2008-05-17T12:25:21Z

It's not a lack of food that's killing people but agribusiness and finance capital - and the institutions that support them like the World Bank and IMF.

- IV400 - May 2008 / Economy, Food crisis

Historical Failure of the Capitalist Model

Ian Angus — 2008-05-17T12:02:17Z

Empty shelves in Managua. Food riots in West Bengal and Mexico. Warnings of hunger in Jamaica, Nepal, the Philippines and sub-Saharan Africa. Soaring prices for basic foods reveal not a lack of food but a lack of logic and humanity in international capitalism.

- IV400 - May 2008 / Ecology and the Environment, Food crisis

Three Meanings of Ecosocialism

Ian Angus — 2007-11-25T19:01:41Z

Is ecosocialism really necessary? Isn't it implied in the very concept of socialism? Why should anybody be an ecosocialist as opposed a plain, straightforward, socialist?

- IV394 - November 2007 / Ecology and the Environment, Ecosocialism