“George Orwell said the world’s bureaucrats couldn’t take spring from us, but they are”–The Guardian and John Bellamy Foster on Climate Change

“… The atom bombs, the police, the dictators and the bureaucrats remain with us and, God knows, so do the lies streaming from the loudspeakers. But, as the sociologist John Bellamy Foster noted back in 2002, Orwell’s beloved toads are now vanishingly rare, with some 200 different species of amphibians driven to extinction in the last few decades….”

Read the Jeff Sparrow’s opinion piece in the January 21 Guardian, which references MR’s John Bellamy Foster and his book, Ecology Against Capitalism