Climate & Capitalism is pleased to publish, with permission from John Bellamy Foster and Monthly Review Press, this excerpt from Chapter 6 of The Vulnerable Planet. In the first part of the chapter, Foster discusses the “qualitative transformation in the level of...
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Why ‘living simply’ isn’t the answer | by Paul D’Amato
Paul D’Amato is managing editor of International Socialist Review. This article was first published in the U.S. newspaper Socialist Worker, in March 2001 International protests against globalization have cast a bright light on how transnational corporations run...
Behind the ‘Green Economy’ – A new drive to commodify nature by Christophe
Faced with an even more complex and deeper crisis, capitalism is launching a fresh attack that combines the old austerity measures with an offensive to create new sources of profit and growth through the “Green Economy” agenda. No to the Green Economy I. A New Phase...
Of green economy and sustainable capitalism
The European Environment Agency recently released a report on progress towards the “green economy” in Europe. The EEA defines the “green economy” as one in which “the environmental, economic and social policies and innovations enable society to use resources...
Why Ecological Revolution? | by John Bellamy Foster
Correction (February 3, 2010)--Passage on Himalayan glaciers in paragraph 5 of article originally published January 2010. This article was written for presentation at the Workshop on Marxist Theory and Practice in the World Today, Ho Chi Minh Academy of Politics and...
Is Marxism deterministic? | by Phil Gasper
PHIL GASPER argues that Marx’s theory of history is vital for understanding social change, but it doesn’t claim that socialism is inevitable KARL MARX’S key idea, in the words of his collaborator Frederick Engels, was that “the production of the immediate material...
Reflections on the Current Crisis and Its Effects | by Rémy Herrera
The crisis of capital at the present juncture when capitalism is deeply financialised is extremely difficult to resolve. The main structural problem of the system is the downward pressure on the rate of profit, but further financialisation is no longer a sustainable...
The growth paradigm: a critique | by Gareth Dale
In respect of climate change, the hurricane that tore into New York was the game changer. The floods it unleashed forced the authorities to organise a mass airlift evacuation of much of the city’s population, and to begin planning the relocation of the city’s stock...
Brett Murray’s depiction of Zuma disgusting – The Presidency by | Mac Maharaj
Mac Maharaj says nobody has the right to violate the dignity and rights of others Presidency disgusted at violation of President Zuma's rights The Presidency is shocked and disgusted at the grotesque painting by Brett Murray depicting President Jacob Zuma in an...
