Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus looks at six new books for reds and greens covering climate change and disease’ capitalist power and the planet’s future’ brain, body, and environment’ oceanic art and science’ essential fungi and life, and the political economy of water.
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Lyme: The First Epidemic of Climate Change
By Mary Beth Pfeiffer
Island Press, 2018
Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus looks at five important new books on famines, deadly epidemics and the pesticide poisons in our food.
Ian Angus, editor of Climate and Capitalism, compiles a new list of essential readings for ecosocialists.
A look at three important new books on the growing global environmental crisis and two that mark the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution.
Having come back from a much needed break with much time spent curled up with books, here are some notes on seven of interest to ecosocialists.
I particularly enjoyed two excellent accounts of the role of trees and other plants in Earth System. The Emerald Planet, by David Beerling, (Oxford University Press, 2007) covers the 500 million years since plants migrated from the oceans.
