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Environment

Why is capitalism addicted to fossil fuels?

Posted on 3rd January 2017 by Camilla

A review of Andreas Malm, Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming (Verso, 2016), £20 One of the biggest challenges that humanity faces is how to stop global warming. It is clear that if… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Environment, fossil fuels

Ecology and value theory

Posted on 3rd January 2017 by Camilla

A review of Jason W Moore, Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital (Verso, 2015), £19.99 Jason W Moore’s Capitalism in the Web of Life sets itself the challenge of locating an account of capitalist… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Ecology, Environment

Marxism and the Anthropocene

Posted on 22nd June 2016 by Camilla

As you read this article every breath you take in contains about 400 parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide, around a third more than your great grandparents breathed 100 years ago.1 As well as leading to potentially catastrophic global… Continue Reading →

Article Anthropocene, Environment

Two books that swim against the tide

Posted on 4th April 2016 by Camilla

A review of Alistair Couper, Hance D Smith and Bruno Ciceri, Fishers and Plunderers: Theft, Slavery and Violence at Sea (Pluto Press, 2015), £19.99 and Stefano B Longo, Rebecca Clausen and Brett Clark, The Tragedy of the Commodity: Oceans, Fisheries… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Environment, fisheries, species extinction

Capitalism and species extinction

Posted on 24th June 2015 by Camilla

Life on earth is arguably the most extraordinary phenomenon in the perceivable universe. And, among living things, 21st century humans are uniquely possessed with the means to appreciate this remarkable occurrence. Scientifically, for example, we can consider the sheer number… Continue Reading →

Article Environment

Good sense on global warming

Posted on 10th October 2014 by ISJ

Good sense, for Antonio Gramsci, was the “healthy nucleus of common sense”.1 This article tries to make sense of what Gramsci meant by good sense, and seeks to develop his understanding of good sense into a resource we can use… Continue Reading →

Analysis Climate change, Environment

Environmentalism in crisis: neoliberal conservation and wilderness romanticism

Posted on 2nd April 2014 by ISJ

A review of Tony Juniper, What has Nature ever done for us? How Money really does grow on Trees (Profile Books, 2013), £9.99, and George Monbiot, Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding (Allen Lane, 2013), £11.99 In… Continue Reading →

Analysis, Book reviews Climate change, Environment

Climate change: it’s even worse than we thought

Posted on 9th January 2013 by ISJ

Whatever else it is remembered for, 2012 is likely to go down in history as the year when climate change began noticeably to change the face of the planet. The trends we are beginning to see mean that global warming… Continue Reading →

Analysis Climate change, Environment

The growth paradigm: a critique

Posted on 27th March 2012 by ISJ

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… Continue Reading →

Analysis Climate change, Environment

Engels on the power of nature

Posted on 1st April 2011 by ISJ

The terrible earthquake and tsunami that hit Tohuku in northeastern Japan on 11 March took place as this issue of International Socialism was on its way to the press. The scenes in which the tsunami swept away vast swathes of… Continue Reading →

Analysis Environment, Friedrich Engels

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