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

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

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

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.

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

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

Ruling ends formal discussion in official geological organization.

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

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

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

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

In memory of Paul Burkett, Marxist scholar and jazz musician, 1956-2024.

Ian Angus’s Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and  the Crisis of the Earth System (Monthly Review Press, 2016) continues to be well received worldwide. This is the introduction to the most recent edition released in the autumn of 2023—a Portuguese translation from the noted Brazilian publishing house Boitempo.

Important steps towards formally defining a new epoch in Earth System history.

Tiny Crawford Lake, near Toronto, holds a detailed record of radical global change.

Ian Angus on chemical warfare against insects.

The world’s insects are among the principal victims of capitalist agricultural concentration.

Ian Angus discusses the scientific developments that led Marx to develop metabolic rift theory in the 1800s, and a new generation to rediscover it the 21st century.

A key concept in Karl Marx’s Capital is widely misunderstood.

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