Climate Disasters are Forcing Farmers to Migrate Out of Odisha to Make a Living
Since 2019, cyclones and floods in the coastal state have taken a heavy toll on agriculture.
Climate Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century
Climate imperialism has emerged as a new—and potentially even the most lethal—form of imperialism in the world economy today. Confronting it requires recognizing and dealing with all its different aspects. But it also requires addressing the monopolies of knowledge created by the WTO.
Capitalism Created the Climate Catastrophe; Socialism Can Avert Disaster
Capitalism cannot solve the climate crisis since capitalism is the principal cause of the crisis. One hundred of the world’s largest corporations are responsible for 71% of global industrial greenhouse gases; but these corporations are not prepared to accelerate the energy transition.
Global Warming: Situation Is Getting Worse, More Worse, Dangerously Worse – Five Articles
Buckle Up! The Arctic’s Sizzling; Greenland Ice Sheet Is Losing Ice Faster Than Forecast and Now Irreversibly Committed to At Least 10 Inches of Sea Level Rise; ‘Dangerous Heat Waves’ to be More Frequent and More Sustained in Near Future; Drought Has Become a Truly Planetary Disaster in 2022; Day of the Dead.
The Changpas’ Way of Life Is Undergoing Shocks and Disruption
Like many other indigenous peoples, this pastoral community has a custodian relationship with nature. But development and global warming are changing that.
Ten Questions About Marx—More Than Twenty Years After Marx’s Ecology
More than twenty years after the publication of Marx’s Ecology (Monthly Review Press, 2000), author John Bellamy Foster and interviewer Roberto Andrés discuss the roots of Marx’s ecological thought, from the Greek atomists to the Enlightenment to Malthus.
The Capitalist Solution to ‘Save’ the Planet: Make it an Asset Class & Sell it
John Bellamy Foster explains the ‘solution’ master-minded by global finance to resolve the imminent environmental crisis: create a multi-quadrillion dollars’ worth of assets on the back of everything nature does and expropriate it from the global commons to make a profit.
At 75, Is India Behaving Like a Responsible Elder?
As India gears up to celebrate its 75th year of Independence, an examination of one of our most pressing problems, the sustainability of the natural environment on which all our lives depend.
We Only Have One Planet—Defending It Will Require Collective Measures
We are living in historic times of deep crisis in the capitalist mode of production. We need to contribute to organizing the working people and fight in defence of our lives, the life of the planet, and the well-being of humanity. Time is short. Without mass struggle, there will be no change.
The Global Ruling Class, Endless War, and the Culture of Mass Death
The global ruling class is cementing into place a world where they govern without accountability, we are reduced to serfdom, the climate crisis accelerates, and mass death is normalized.