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17/05/18
An ecology that truly seeks to confront today’s challenges requires Marx’s remarkable analysis of the destructive logic inherent in the unlimited accumulation of capital.
16/05/18
Ecomodernists claim material growth can continue indefinitely without environmental damage. Degrowth advocate Jason Hickel says their arguments ignore both evidence and logic.
14/05/18
The Big Bad Fix powerfully exposes the dangers of deliberate climate modification, and presents alternatives. A deeper focus on fighting the fossil industry would strengthen the argument.
14/05/18
At a time when the activist left is weak and divided, it’s vital to focus on common goals and principles, rather than obsessing over difference and division
10/05/18
Global warming gets toxic: The number of people who will lose sewage treatment could be five times more than those directly affected by flooding
09/05/18
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.
07/05/18
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
02/05/18
Marx saw the rift between people and naure not only as a primary failing of capitalism, but also as a mechanism through which capitalism may be superseded.
01/05/18
Why wasn’t Marx’s concept of metabolic rift recognized until recently? Changed circumstances, unpublished works, and bad translations all played a role.
30/04/18
Despite being consistently discredited, overpopulation ideology resurfaces with the same predictable regularity as capitalist crises. Only Marxism offers a clear alternative.
24/04/18
If you’ve ever wondered what a scientific representation of metabolic rift might look like, check out this graph.
22/04/18
“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
18/04/18
Three highly recommended books in the Democratic Marxism series: Marxisms in the 21st Century, Capitalism’s Crises, and The Climate Crisis.
17/04/18
Metabolic Rifts Today. Beginning a new series by Ian Angus, on how contemporary science illuminates and extends metabolic rift theory in the 21st century.
16/04/18
Eco-modernists promise that technology can solve all environmental problems and provide abundance for all. There is no sustainable way to do that.
13/04/18
As an island nation, Cuba is particularly vulnerable to climate change. Project Life (Tarea Vida plan), now being implemented across the country, aims to increase the country’s resilience and minimize future damage
12/04/18
Statement on the second annual March for Science on Saturday, April 14, 2018. “We need to transform the role of science in our world.”
08/04/18
Conventional farming destroys the complex soil ecosystem and ultimately the soil itself, so the risk of not changing it is too great. (Download Free Book)
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