On every scale, from the smallest cells to the entire planet, the essential elements of life are constantly used and re-used. Biogeochemical cycles are the basis of the biosphere.
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, May 2018
Environmentalism of the Rich, A Scientist’s Fight for a Nuclear Test Ban, Limits to Capitalist Nature, Cocoa, Extracting Profit from Africa, Indigenous Struggles in Peru
Marx, nature, and political morality
Marx saw the rift between people and nature not only as a primary failing of capitalism, but also as a mechanism through which capitalism may be superseded.
Marx and Metabolism: Lost in translation?
Why wasn't Marx's concept of metabolic rift recognized until recently? Changed circumstances, unpublished works, and bad translations all played a role.
Ecological Marxism vs. environmental neo-Malthusianism: An old debate continues
Despite being consistently discredited, overpopulation ideology resurfaces with the same predictable regularity as capitalist crises. Only Marxism offers a clear alternative.
The Keeling Curve at 60: A portrait of climate crisis
If you’ve ever wondered what a scientific representation of metabolic rift might look like, check out this graph.
Hugo Blanco on the indigenous struggle for land in Peru
"I have taken the term 'Indian' as the title of the book. It is the pejorative term used against us. The whip they use to hit our faces. I have picked up the whip. I find it more appropriate than using terms that soften or diminish the oppression."—Hugo Blanco
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, April 2018, Part 2
Three highly recommended books in the Democratic Marxism series: Marxisms in the 21st Century, Capitalism’s Crises, and The Climate Crisis.
Five Revolutions: How bacteria created the biosphere and caused the first climate crisis
Metabolic Rifts Today. Beginning a new series by Ian Angus, on how contemporary science illuminates and extends metabolic rift theory in the 21st century.
Where’s the ‘eco’ in ecomodernism?
Eco-modernists promise that technology can solve all environmental problems and provide abundance for all. There is no sustainable way to do that.