environment
Articles about the environment, including ecology, climate change, pollution and more.
Letter on animal liberation, by Gilles Dauvé
This is a letter sent by French readers to the authors of Beasts of Burden (Antagonism Press, 1999, c/o BM Mahkno, London WC1N 3XX (www.geocities.com/CapitalHill/Lobby/3909).
This pamphlet has the merit of addressing a vital question: If communism is to transform the whole of daily life, it can't leave out our relation to animals and the way we eat. Beasts of Burden forces to rethink the whole "primitivist" debate. We hope to tackle this some day.
Welcome to Seattle, WTO: Judi Bari debates Karl Marx
Welcome to Seattle, WTO: Judi Bari debates Karl Marx
by M A Jones
28 November 1999 14:10 UTC
"EARTH FIRST'S" JUDI BARI AND KARL MARX: A DIALOGUE ON REVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY
Moderated by Walt Sheasby
[Judi Bari was also a labor and social justice activist, mother and fiddle
player]
MODERATOR:
Welcome to our dialogue. Today our guests are the very
Nature, Neoliberalism and Sustainable Development: Between Charybdis and Scylla
Harry Cleaver's paper on the effects of capitalist development on the environment.
This paper was prepared for the 4th Ecology Meeting on "Economy and Ecology" held by the Instituto Piaget, Viseu, Portugal, April 17-19, 1997.
NATURE, NEOLIBERALISM AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: BETWEEN CHARYBDIS & SCYLLA?*
The uses of an earthquake - Harry Cleaver
When earthquakes, floods, droughts and volcanic eruptions strike where we live, they are usually considered instances of crisis and unmitigated natural disaster. Yet, recently I have had opportunities to witness how the meaning of crisis depends entirely on one's point of view.
The opportunities have come during two visits to Mexico City. The first visit was a month or so after the major earthquake of 1985 that brought widely reported death and destruction. The second was a follow-up visit seven months later.
The Contradictions of the Green Revolution - Harry Cleaver
US academic Harry Cleaver's polemic against the 'green' technocratic agricultural developments in post-WWII capitalism. In PDF format.
Review of 'Marx and Nature: A Red and Green Perspective' - Paresh Chattopadhyay
Paresh Chattopadhyay's review of Paul Burkett's book. 'Marx and Nature'.
This is an important book. Its great merit lies in a clear presentation of Marx's position on nature in its relation to human beings as well as a convincing defense of Marx against his ecological critics. The book has 14 chapters spread over three parts: nature and historical materialism; nature and capitalism; and nature and communism.
Progress & Nuclear Power - Fredy Perlman
The Following text first appeared in a special anti-nuclear issue of Fifth Estate magazine on April 8, 1979. It was written earlier in that year just after an accident at Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in eastern Pennsylavania. As news of the accident spread, official messages insisted, "There is no need to overreact, the situation is stable, the leaders have everything under control," but eventually people living near the plant had to be evacuated. Here Fredy reminds us how the original inhabitants of this region were duped and destroyed by the platitudes, promises and police that always accompany Capital.
The politics of anti-road struggle and the struggles of anti-road politics - the case of the No M11 link road campaign
Through the passionate creation of conditions favourable to the growth of our passions, we wish to destroy that which is destroying us.
Ratgeb (1974)[1]
Auto Struggles: The Developing War Against the Road Monster
From capital's point of view, the motor industry is both a vital element in a modern transport infrastructure, necessary for the expanded reproduction of a variety of sectors of the economy, and a locus of expansion in its own right. From the proletariat's perspective, the freedom offered by the car is merely a formal freedom; the consumer-citizen's freedom of movement has as its premise and its result the atomization and enslavement of the class in work and in leisure.
Introduction
Britain's first motorway opened in 1958 on a wave of auto-triumphalism. Motorways were presented as both an answer to 'the public's' transport requirements and an essential component of the modern infrastructure British capital needed to compete with its European counterparts.
Intakes: Some Critical Notes on Earth First!
Earth First! has begun to develop into a significant force within the British Green movement. We reprint an article by a dissident member who argues that its uncritical adoption of certain theoretical strands from the U.S.A. is at the expense of an understanding of capitalism and democracy.
Some Critical Notes on Earth First! ... from Within
