Learning from Late Marx
October 1, 2016
Kohei Saito is a visiting scholar at UC-Santa Barbara and a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science postdoctoral fellow. His first book, Natur gegen Kapital (Campus, 2016) has just… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Ecology
The Anthropocene Crisis
September 1, 2016
This article is adapted from the foreword to Ian Angus, Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System (Monthly Review Press, 2016). For it is because… READ MORE
Against Trophy Hunting: A Marxian-Leopoldian Critique
September 1, 2016
Alexander Simon is an associate professor of sociology at Utah Valley University. Contemporary North Americans hunt wildlife for a variety of reasons, whether to attain game meat, spend time with… READ MORE
Hydrocarbons and the Illusion of Sustainability
July 1, 2016
Kent A. Klitgaard is a professor of economics at Wells College. He is the author, with Charles A. S. Hall, of Energy and the Wealth of Nations (Springer, 2012). After… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, June 2016
June 1, 2016
On April 8, 2016, in what has already become a historic case on the climate, Magistrate Judge Thomas Coffin of the United States District Court of Oregon ruled against a… READ MORE
Marx’s Ecology and the Left
June 1, 2016
John Bellamy Foster is the editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. His most recent book, coauthored with Paul Burkett, is Marx and… READ MORE
Orthodox Economics and the Science of Climate Change
May 1, 2016
Mariano Torras is a professor of economics at Adelphi University and the author of Welfare, Inequality, and Resource Depletion (Ashgate, 2003). We have finally reached the point where most people… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, February 2016
February 1, 2016
From mainstream news reports, one might easily conclude that the Paris climate agreement, presented to the world on December 12, 2015, was a complete triumph. The Guardian headlined it as… READ MORE