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About Ian Angus

Ian Angus is a socialist and ecosocialist activist in Canada. He is editor of the ecosocialist journal Climate & Capitalism. He is co-author, with Simon Butler, of Too Many People? Population, Immigration and the Environmental Crisis (Haymarket, 2011); editor of the anthology The Global Fight for Climate Justice (Fernwood, 2010); and author of Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System (Monthly Review Press, 2016) and A Redder Shade of Green: Intersections of Science and Socialism (Monthly Review Press, 2017). His latest book is The War Against the Commons: Dispossession and Resistance in the Making of Capitalism (Monthly Review Press, 2023).
  • Emission reductions

    Emission reductions: Promises, promises, promises

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on November 8, 2025 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    COP30 meets ten years after the Paris Agreement, and Earth is warming faster than ever.

  • An operation of fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil near Chicago, USA [Richard Hurd, Flickr CC BY 2.0]

    Fossil fuel production plans contradict climate promises

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on September 22, 2025 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    Official plans show continued collective failure to lower global emissions.

  • Wildfires burning across Canada and the Western United States are spewing smoke over millions of Americans, with health impacts far greater than scientists previously estimated.

    Wildfire smoke impact far greater than estimates: thousands killed

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on September 19, 2025 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    Study shows U.S. death toll could reach 70,000 a year by 2050.

  • “The Earth is not dying. It is being killed, and the people who are killing it have names and addresses.” —Utah Phillips

    Who is responsible for heat that kills?

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on September 15, 2025 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    The danger to human life lies not so much in heat as in heat waves, extreme events that have more than doubled in frequency and length in recent decades.

  • Climeworks CO2 capture plant under construction in Iceland.

    Can carbon dioxide removal save the climate?

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on June 29, 2025 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    The concentration of carbon dioxide in the world’s atmosphere is now very close to 429 parts per million.

  • Heat

    Global heating isn’t just getting worse. It is getting worse faster.

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on June 19, 2025 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    Surplus heat is accumulating in the Earth system at an accelerating rate.

  • How hot will the Earth get?

    1.5 is dead: How hot will the Earth get?

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on June 5, 2025 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    ​It may be ‘technically possible,’ ​to keep ​g​lobal heating below 1.5 degrees, but it isn’t going to happen..

  • Climate Crisis Day Of Action, Melbourne, 2020. Photo: Matt Hrkac / CC BY 2.0

    Why we need to stop capitalism’s runaway train: Interview with Ian Angus

    Originally published: Counterfire on March 13, 2025 by Michael Lavalette (more by Counterfire)  |

    Michael Lavalette spoke to leading ecosocialist Ian Angus about capitalisms’ ecocide, Trump and what we need to do stop global heating.

  • The private jets of 23 super-rich individuals emitted an average of 2,074 tonnes of carbon a year. This is equivalent to 2,000 years’ worth emissions for someone in the global poorest 50%. On average, these super-rich individuals took 184 flights in 2023, spending 425 hours in the air. (Oxfam)

    The deadly environmental toll of super-yachts and private jets

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on October 28, 2024 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    Every week, the ultra-rich emit more greenhouse gas than the poorest people produce in a lifetime.

  • Deadly Heat

    Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues (Part 8): Deadly heat

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on July 27, 2024 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    ‘Climate change has already caused mass death on a pandemic-like scale’

  • Vendors in wet markets sell a wide range of vegetables, fruit and meats.

    Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues. Part 7: Wildlife farms and wet markets

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on July 14, 2024 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    Commercial farming of wild animals as luxury food for the rich triggered a global pandemic.

  • A confined pig breeding facility operated by Jiangxi Zhengbang Breeding Company in Jiangxi Province.

    Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues (Part 6): China’s livestock revolution

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on June 26, 2024 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    The near-universal adoption of mass production in confined facilities makes pandemics all but inevitable.

  • Chickens

    Capitalism’s new age of plagues (Part 5): The pandemic machines

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on May 15, 2024 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    In March, Cal-Maine Foods, the largest U.S. egg producer, reported that chickens in one of its Texas egg factories had contracted Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Type A–better known as Bird Flu. To stop the disease from spreading, the corporation slaughtered 1.6 million birds.

  • In 2023 alone, 3.7 million hectares of primary tropical forest was destroyed — the equivalent of 10 soccer fields every minute of every day.

    Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues (Part 4)

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on April 19, 2024 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    Agribusiness assaults on tropical forests are driving the emergence of new diseases and epidemics.

  • Map

    Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues (Part 3)

    Ian Angus

    Covid-19 was the least unexpected pandemic in history. Why were governments not prepared?

  • Top geology body denies appeal, rejects Anthropocene proposal

    Top geology body denies appeal, rejects Anthropocene proposal

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on March 21, 2024 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    Ruling ends formal discussion in official geological organization.

  • Closeup of coronavirus through microscope. Image courtesy of People’s History of the Coronavirus Pandemic/National Institutes of Health-Rocky Mountain Laboratories

    Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues (Part 2)

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on March 14, 2024 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    Relentless evolution creates ‘resilient, dangerous foes’ in the Anthropocene.

  • Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues

    Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues (Part 1)

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on March 5, 2024 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    In our time, pandemics will occur more often, spread more rapidly, and kill more people.

  • Anti-Anthropocene vote is ‘null and void’

    Anti-Anthropocene vote is ‘null and void’

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on March 7, 2024 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    Commission chairs say organizers of ballot violated statutes and ignored scientific evidence.

  • earth heart

    Nature’s heartbeat, visualized

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on February 18, 2024 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    A stunning animation displays the pulse of the Earth System’s metabolism.

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