The final solution - Renaud Miailhe An essay on biotechnology, its ideological precursors and its disastrous implications, with discussions of eugenics, futurism, fantasies of space…
Antarctica - Kim Stanley Robinson Antarctica is Robinson's first novel published after the success of the Mars trilogy. However, because of the similarity in the themes of both…
What's wrong with Prometheanism? Simple questions of technological progress abound in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
Killer coal-burning plant switched off in Vado Ligure, Italy A coal burning factory in northern Italy, which caused pollution linked to the deaths of hundreds of…
Murray Bookchin's libertarian technics The first in a series of critical introductions to thinkers and concepts that inform discussion of the climate crisis, looking at Murray Bookchin…
Let them eat growth Radicals are right to point out capitalism's need for growth at all costs is the road to ruin, but does runaway climate change wreck the prospect…
After the collapse: notes on the technological utopia (excerpts) - Jean-Marc Mandosio Chapter 3 and portions of Chapter 4 from Jean-Marc Mandosio’s book, Après l'effondrement: notes sur…
Protecting public health on the Italian Riviera: the Maersk case Liguria, with its beautiful coastline and wonderful mountainous hinterland, has been a place for…
Communising energy: power to the people! A brief critique of the existing model of heat production in Britain and a comparison with a communal system. If you thought things were rosy in…
Who's afraid of ruins? Capitalism is locking-in climate change for centuries, but in the process, making radical social change more realistic than tinkering around the…
Out of the Woods - a new blog on climate change Announcing a new collaborative blog project to investigate capitalism and climate change.