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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).
  • El Niño

    El Niño is being supersized before our eyes

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on September 3, 2026 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    El Niño is firmly established and will intensify into a very strong event in the coming months, with big impacts on rainfall and temperature patterns and associated risks of floods, drought and extreme heat, according to a new update from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

  • In 2025, all 3 dominant greenhouse gases hit record highs

    Emissions, sea level and ocean heat reach record highs

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on August 11, 2026 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    Meteorologists’ report shows record and near-record temperatures across the globe in 2025.

  • Filip Frącz, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

    Sink the superyachts!

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on July 11, 2026 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    These toys of the ultrarich are environmentally destructive and multiplying fast. They should not exist.

  • Why Socialists Must Understand Metabolic Rifts

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on July 6, 2026 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    At the Marxism 2026 conference in Toronto last month, Ian Angus spoke at a release event for his new book, Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System, out now from Monthly Review Press.

  • Social Murder

    Social Murder: Pandemic profits and vaccine apartheid

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on June 7, 2026 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    In 2015, Turing Pharmaceuticals raised the price of a single pill of Daraprim, an antiparasitic drug used by cancer and HIV/AIDS patients, from $13.50 to $750.00.

  • Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System

    Marxist theory and the global ecological crisis

    Originally published: Marxist theory and the global ecological crisis on May 18, 2026 (more by Marxist theory and the global ecological crisis)

    Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System.

  • Desiccated agricultural fields in Iraq. Photo from Unsplash.

    A new reign of climate chaos

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on May 15, 2026 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    Capitalism is pushing humanity beyond the ecological limits that made civilization possible.

  • Antarctic

    ‘Huge transformation’ shrinks Antarctic sea ice to record lows

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on May 11, 2026 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    For decades, the Southern Ocean defied global warming trends – until 2015.

  • “Without swift, transformative action, humanity risks a 3°C rise in global temperatures, rampant pollution, and catastrophic biodiversity loss.”–GEO-7

    Earth in 2050: A stark vision of environmental decline

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on April 5, 2026 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    UN report predicts crippling heat waves, polluted air, species extinctions, economic crises.

  • Detail of cover of Ian Angus's book Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism's Assault on the Earth System.

    Metabolic Rifts: Ian Angus Interviewed by Michael Roberts

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on March 30, 2026 by Ian Angus (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    Ian Angus was interviewed by noted Marxist economist Michael Roberts about Angus’s new book, Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System, out now from Monthly Review Press.

  • Plastic Pollution

    A planet poisoned by plastic

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on January 3, 2026 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    Part Three of a series. Plastics are a delivery system for 16,000 potentially toxic chemicals.

  • Deadly heatwaves

    Deadly heatwaves will intensify for 1,000 years after net zero

    Ian Angus

    Study shows that the hotter climate regime will last centuries, not decades.

  • 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.

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