Decades ago, he showed that environmental, energy and economic crises had a common cause: a system that demands increased profits at all costs
Ecosocialist classic
Book Review
Gee Whiz! Communism is sure gonna be keen!
‘Fully Automated Luxury Communism’ trivializes the global environmental crisis with badly-researched techno-hype and political plans that don’t come close to addressing the world’s problems.
Marxist ecology
The ecosocialist views of Karl Marx – An interview with Kohei Saito
The winner of the 2018 Deutscher Prize discusses Karl Marx’s radical understanding of capitalism’s deadly disruption of the universal metabolism of nature.
Food Sovereignty
On the future of farming and ecomodernist illusions
Some writers imagine that machines can feed the world. They ignore the damage caused by industrial agriculture, and don’t value the work of people who feed most of humanity today.
Global heat
Atmospheric carbon dioxide level hits all-time high
Seventh consecutive year of steep increases leads to the highest greenhouse gas concentration recorded in 61 years of observations
Movement building
What will it take to win a Green New Deal?
Canadian NGOs have launched a “Pact for a Green New Deal.” Will they build the movement that’s needed to win real changes?
Six new books
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, June 2019
Marxist environmental essays … Science and the Anthropocene … Is disaster avoidable? … Capitalism at sea … Beef and class struggle … Climate and the biggest volcano
Book Review
Environment, Labor, and Capitalism at Sea
A compelling first-hand study shows that fishing is a deadly occupation because capitalism forces workers to take terrible risks in order to survive.
Metabolic Crisis
Superbugs in the Anthropocene: A Profit-Driven Plague
The promise of a world without disease has been replaced by warnings of evermore virulent pathogens, created by the drugs that were supposed to save us.
Challenge filed
Amazonian community’s lands destroyed for ‘sustainable’ palm oil
With 7,000 hectares of forests destroyed, community leaders and members have faced multiple attempts on their lives, threats and intimidation.
New epoch
Major step towards formalizing the Anthropocene
BULLETIN: Overwhelming majority of working group votes: A new epoch in Earth history began in the mid-20th century
Capitalism fouls things up
Fine dust and fossil capital in Korea
There is a good reason why there are blue skies in much of the United States while those of us living in Northeast Asia are choking — most of their factories have moved over here.