István Mészáros, one of the finest political philosophers of our time, died on October 1. As this article shows, he was one of the first Marxists to identify the global environmental crisis as a central contradiction of late capitalism.
In Memoriam
Archive | Capitalism
Hurricane Aftermath
How the ruling class remade New Orleans
What will happen after the destruction caused by Harvey and Irma? The experience of New Orleans after Katrina shows what to expect when capitalists profit from disaster.
Furious torrents
Hurricane Harvey and the Dialectics of Nature
Houston is the city where capitalism’s victory over nature is the most complete — and also where nature takes its ultimate revenge
Interview with Fred Magdoff
Capitalism puts profits first, but an ecological society will serve humanity
Fred Magdoff: “Decisions made about production and consumption will emphasize on positive effects on humans and the health of the broader environment, rather than the profits and wealth of a few”
Ian Angus On Air
Radio Interview: Is Capitalism Killing Our Climate?
‘Planet Haliburton’ is a twice-monthly program on Canoe-FM in Haliburton Ontario. Hosts Greg Roe and Terry Moore interviewed Climate & Capitalism editor Ian Angus on August 14, 2017.
Film Review
Al Gore’s Convenient Infomercial for Green Capitalism
Al Gore, the perfect spokesperson for the liberal approach to climate change, simply cannot see that neoliberal logic prevents our current institutions from addressing the crisis.
Organizing in the Anthropocene
Angus interview: How can we save the planet?
We must understand how can we slow down changes that have already begun, which changes we can reverse, and how we can adapt those we can’t stop
Book Review
We Need a Much Bigger Leap! John Bellamy Foster on Naomi Klein’s ‘No Is Not Enough’
There is much to admire in Naomi Klein’s new book, but she underestimates the danger posed by Trumpism, and doesn’t pose a real alternative. She calls for a Leap, but it isn’t high enough or far enough.
Capitalism and pathogens
Ten Theses on Farming and Disease
The corporate business model helps pathogens and pests to spread across the world. The only way to stop the next deadly pandemic is to end capitalist agribusiness as we know it.
More than denial
Trump, climate and the breakdown of multilateralism
For social movements and climate justice campaigners, the US abandonment of the agreement is disappointing, but there is also a unity in understanding that the future of humanity on this planet does not rest on leaders alone.
Reading, red and green
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, June 2017
Five new books on climate change and human health, ecology and imperialism in the global south, environmental economics, capitalism and universities, and the meaning of hegemony
21st century barbarism
Corporate power, militarism, and the tragedy of American science
Trillions of dollars in resources and scientific talent are devoted to war rather than to ending poverty, disease, and environmental destruction. That is among the greatest tragedies in all human history.
Movement Building
Ecosocialists debate James Hansen’s climate change exit strategy
Should ecosocialists reject a program that includes carbon pricing? Ian Angus and John Bellamy Foster reply to Daniel Tanuro’s criticism of their approach.
Sadness and resistance
Letting Go
Richard Seymour on the world that is being destroyed and environmental melancholy: ‘We despair, but we do not submit.’
Interview
‘We need a resistance movement for the planet’
The climate movement is central, but we have to fight on all fronts, combining broad defense of human rights and opposition to war and imperialism, with the fight to save Earth as a place of human habitation.
The Fire This Time
Trump Against the Planet
John Bellamy Foster: This administration is not just a cabal of ignoramuses. Behind the right’s climate denial is the economic reality that seriously combating capitalism’s war on the planet requires the defeat of the system.
Protecting business as usual
Another attack on Anthropocene science
A new conservative campaign aims to discredit efforts to define the new and dangerous stage of planetary history, by driving a wedge between social scientists and the Anthropocene Working Group.
AID IN REVERSE
How poor countries finance the rich
In one year, rich countries take $2 trillion more from poor countries than they return in aid and investment. The countries that brag most about their foreign aid are enabling mass theft.
Deadly devotion
Why capitalism is hopelessly addicted to fossil fuels
With Donald Trump in the White House the future for our climate looks bleak, but capitalism’s love affair with fossil energy runs much deeper than the desires and personalities of individual politicians.
Profit vs People
Corporate Power + Climate Change = Geocide
Susan George: We are faced with determined adversaries who care nothing about human rights or climate change. They only want a world in which they can make endless amounts of money using all available resources, no matter what the costs to nature and to human life.