Following my review of The Progress of This Storm, a reader comments on a philosophical fad that is 'burning through academia faster than a forest fire'
Environmental philosophy
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Book Review
The progress of this storm:
Nature and society in a warming world
Andreas Malm’s powerful critique of current environmental philosophies puts historical materialism and cutting-edge science at the center of a call for militant action
Book announcement
Face à l’anthropocène: Le capitalisme fossile et la crise du système terrestre
Facing the Anthropocene, by Ian Angus, will soon be available in French, published by Éditions Écosociété
Interview
Andreas Malm: ‘Without a mass movement we don’t stand a chance against fossil capital’
The author of 'Fossil Capital' and 'The Progress of This Storm' says there are reasons to be hopeful, but success depends on building a global movement of unprecedented scale
Imperialism
Africa: New evidence of ongoing corporate looting
World Bank report shows massive depletion of Africa's natural wealth by transnational corporations. Only mass action can block the extractivist plunder
Book Review
How to create an ecological society
Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams make a powerful case that ecological disaster can be only be overcome by a revolutionary transformation on socialist principles
Unprecedented forecast
Global warming may pass 1.5°C in the next five years
UK climate scientists say that warming in at least one year in the next five could blow past the target set in the Paris Accord.
creative self-destruction
Why corporate promises to cut carbon can’t be trusted
Relying on markets and corporate responses to the climate crisis will not work, because profits always come first
A tribute
Alan Roberts, 1925-2017: A pioneer of radical environmentalism
The Marxist author of The Self-managing Environment rejected techno-fixes for environmental crises and exposed the fallacies of populationism
Agadir Declaration
ATTAC: For food sovereignty, against ‘free trade’ agreements
"The so called free trade agreements are new colonial agreements that serve the interests of multinationals, favouring the pillage of lands, indigenous peoples’ communal areas, their water resources, their fish and their food"