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Marxism, ecology and human history

Land and Labour: A new book explores humanity's contradictory relationship with the environment: our destructive role, and our potential for positive change

On the nature and causes of environmental violence

"We need a much broader definition of violence than is allowed for by limiting its meaning to a physical and immediate brutal act of aggression, and one that includes an environmental dimension. "

Yuen and Angus debate ‘environmental catastrophism’

Replying to a critique in Monthly Review, Eddie Yuen says Ian Angus "misses my central problematic of politicization." Angus says Yuen's response displays "the most debilitating of common leftist neuroses."

BRICS lessons in (un)sustainable urbanization

Patrick Bond says the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) economies are increasingly polluted and deadly. Much more damage will be done, and multifaceted resistance must likewise strengthen.

Socialists debate nuclear, 4: A green syndicalist view

Continuing our discussion of nuclear energy, Steve Ongerth of the IWW says it's no coincidence that many of the same forces that are fighting to deny climate change and hold back renewables are also pushing nuclear power.