Tag - Martin Empson

Books & Reports • Capitalism • Food and Farming • Land grabbing • Metabolic Rift

‘Dust Bowls of Empire’ exposes capital’s...

January 2, 2019

The 1930s Dust Bowl presaged today’s global ecological crises. Hannah Holleman’s brilliant new book...

Biodiversity • Books & Reports

Invasive species and ‘rewilding’ – Is doing...

August 1, 2018

In 'The New Wild,' Fred Pearce argues nature will restore itself if we just leave it alone. Is...

Books & Reports • Food and Farming • History • Protests & Revolts

‘Kill All the Gentlemen’ — seven centuries of class...

July 22, 2018

In his insightful history of rural rebellion, Martin Empson shows how farmers and farm...

Food and Farming • Hunger and Famine • Inequality & Class • Latin America

Beginning to end hunger: Belo Horizonte shows the way

July 4, 2018

A Brazilian city’s food program feeds the hungry and supports local farmers. It succeeds...

Africa • Books & Reports • Climate Justice • Corporate polluters • Ecosocialism • History • Inequality & Class

Ecosocialist Bookshelf, June 2018

June 4, 2018

New Books! Red-Green Revolution. Rural Class Struggle. Climate Anthropology. Will Big Business...

Books & Reports • Climate Change

Ecological science fiction: Two hits and a miss

January 5, 2018

Three novels by Kim Stanley Robinson: Aurora is monumental and Shaman is a great evocation of the...