**Ian Angus, //Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System//**

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Paperback, 280 pages\\ 
[[https://monthlyreview.org/product/facing_the_anthropocene/|Monthly Review Press]], 2016\\ 
ISBN: 1583676090

Bridging the gap between Earth System science and ecological Marxism, Ian Angus examines not only the latest scientific findings about the physical causes and consequences of the Anthropocene transition, but also the social and economic trends that underlie the crisis. Cogent and compellingly written, //Facing the Anthropocene// offers a unique synthesis of natural and social science that illustrates how capitalism’s inexorable drive for growth, powered by the rapid burning of fossil fuels that took millions of years to form, has driven our world to the brink of disaster. Survival in the Anthropocene, Angus argues, requires radical social change, replacing fossil capitalism with a new, ecosocialist civilization.

Ian Angus's blog, [[http://climateandcapitalism.com/|Climate & Capitalism]]

**Table of Contents**

Foreword, by John Bellamy Foster\\ 
Preface

Part One: A No-Analog State\\ 
1 A Second Copernican Revolution\\ 
2 The Great Acceleration\\ 
3 When Did the Anthropocene Begin?\\ 
4 Tipping Points, Climate Chaos and Planetary Boundaries\\ 
5 The First Near-Catastrophe\\ 
6 A New (and Deadly) Climate Regime

Part Two: Fossil Capitalism\\ 
7 Capital’s Time vs. Nature’s Time\\ 
8 The Making of Fossil Capitalism\\ 
9 War, Class Struggle, and Cheap Oil\\ 
10 Accelerating into the Anthropocene\\ 
11 We Are Not All In This Together

Part Three: The Alternative\\ 
13 Ecosocialism and Human Solidarity\\ 
14 The Movement We Need

Appendix: Confusions and Misconceptions\\ 
Bibliography\\ 
Index