Profitable Poisons Beginning a series of articles on the deadly chemicals that capitalism spreads worldwide climateandcapitalism.com/2025/11/30/p...

Plastic pollution is worsened by climate change Warmer climate increases plastics’ toxicity, disproportionately poisoning large mammals climateandcapitalism.com/2025/11/27/p...

Chemical pollution drives prostate cancer, falling sperm counts Pesticides, microplastics and PFAS are causing a precipitous decline in male reproductive health climateandcapitalism.com/2025/11/25/c...

Ecosocialist Bookshelf. November 2025, Part 2 Continuing our survey of this month’s bumper crop of books for reds and greens climateandcapitalism.com/2025/11/20/e...

In Canada, the Free Market Fairy failed to cut emissions. As expected. Canada led the way in implementing carbon taxes. And in dumping them. climateandcapitalism.com/2025/11/14/i...

Fossil fuel projects threaten health and rights of two billion people Amnesty Report: Worldwide production of oil. gas and coal is undermining life, nature, and human rights climateandcapitalism.com/2025/11/13/h...

ECOSOCIALISM AND DEGROWTH IN THE ANTHROPOCENE Only a democratic and planned socialist economy can put an end to structural racism and imperialist violence Talk by Peter Boyle at Ecosocialism 2025, in Melbourne Australia climateandcapitalism.com/2025/11/09/e...

EMISSION REDUCTIONS: PROMISES, PROMISES, PROMISES COP30 meets ten years after the Paris Agreement, and Earth is warming faster than ever climateandcapitalism.com/2025/11/08/e...

Climate change costs millions of lives each year. Lancet report shows The health and economic consequences of delayed climate action are escalating rapidly climateandcapitalism.com/2025/11/03/c...

Ecosocialist Bookshelf, November 2025. Part One of this month’s bumper crop of books for reds and greens climateandcapitalism.com/2025/11/01/e...

Faster sea level rise threatens China’s coastal megacities. Thermal expansion and melting glaciers endanger some of the world’s largest urban centers. climateandcapitalism.com/2025/10/28/f...

CLIMATE CHANGE IS UNGREENING THE OCEANS. A vital life-support system is in decline, threatening food chains and the climate. climateandcapitalism.com/2025/10/25/c...

Bolivia Burning: Inside a Latin American Ecocide. Documentary film exposes the role of colonisers, agribusiness in causing massive forest fires. climateandcapitalism.com/2025/10/21/b...

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: most Amazon greenhouse gas in 2024 came from fires, not deforestation. climateandcapitalism.com/2025/10/09/a...

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’ Indigenous meeting in Peru condemns ‘carbon offset’ schemes that steal forests climateandcapitalism.com/2025/09/26/c...

Climate change adds 40 days to worldwide wildfire season Over half of annual burned area now occurs outside of natural burn season climateandcapitalism.com/2025/09/23/c...

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 climateandcapitalism.com/2025/09/22/p...

Wildfire smoke impact far greater than estimates: thousands killed Study shows US death toll could reach 70,000 a year by 2050 climateandcapitalism.com/2025/09/19/w...

Global water cycle: increasingly erratic and extreme Swinging between deluge and drought, two-thirds of river networks have too much or too little water climateandcapitalism.com/2025/09/18/g...

Social Murder: Who is responsible for heat that kills? New study identifies corporate culprits in deaths from rise in extreme heat waves climateandcapitalism.com/2025/09/15/w...

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 climateandcapitalism.com/2025/09/07/6...

Ecosocialist Bookshelf, September 2025 Seven new books for reds and greens: slavery, antiscience, extraction, disruption, oil power, language, & planning climateandcapitalism.com/2025/09/01/e...

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

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: Ex-employees highlight how Microsoft’s work for the fossil fuel industry is exacerbating the climate crisis. climateandcapitalism.com/2025/08/11/m...

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), climateandcapitalism.com/2025/07/25/f...

‘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 climateandcapitalism.com/2025/07/09/c...

Beyond wishful thinking: Can technology stop global heating by sucking CO2 out of the air? climateandcapitalism.com/2025/06/29/c...

"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-...

“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 climateandcapitalism.com/2025/06/19/g...

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? climateandcapitalism.com/2025/06/05/1...

Greenwash: Carbon capture company emits more than it captures. climateandcapitalism.com/2025/06/03/c...

Some thoughts on Nature and the German Peasants’ War. climateandcapitalism.com/2025/05/23/s...

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...

Ecosocialist Bookshelf, April 2025. Recent books on ecooscialism, Africa, climate, capitalism, hunger, and much more. climateandcapitalism.com/2025/04/10/e...

Ecosocialist Bookshelf, April 2025. Recent books on ecoscialism, Africa, climate, capitalism, hunger, and much more. climateandcapitalism.com/2025/04/10/e...

Congratulations, Martin!

I'm very pleased to announce publication of the Macedonian language translation of my book, Facing the Anthropocene. It joins the original English edition, and previous translations into French, German, Italian, Turkish, and Portuguese.

Capitalism thrives through economic crises. Will ecological crisis bring it down? A review of Ståle Holgerson's Against the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World climateandcapitalism.com/2025/04/02/a...

New mutations support sustained human-to-human transmission -- Will Mpox be the next global threat to human health? climateandcapitalism.com/2025/04/02/w...

Growth or Degrowth? Ecosocialism confronts a false dichotomy that obscures the real problems we face climateandcapitalism.com/2025/03/25/g...

2025 report shows US wild bird populations continue steep decline. ‘A full-on emergency across all habitats’ climateandcapitalism.com/2025/03/17/u...

Capitalism is undermining nature's metabolism, and Earth's life support systems are breaking down / An interview with Ian Angus climateandcapitalism.com/2025/03/16/i...

Waste defined: devoting 30 million acres of prime farmland to growing fuel for cars climateandcapitalism.com/2025/03/11/e...

Seven new books on industrial agriculture, colonialism, Marx and democracy, human history, materialism, and Ricardo's economics climateandcapitalism.com/2025/03/05/e...

Brazillian magazine interviews Ian Angus about capitalism, metabolic rifts, degrowth, and ecosocialism. climateandcapitalism.com/2025/02/28/t...

Despite falling costs, energy companies aren’t switching. For capitalism, the price is wrong. climateandcapitalism.com/2025/02/20/r...