Earlier this month, the Biden administration announced that $1.2 billion of the $3.5 billion earmarked in last year’s infrastructure bill for carbon capture and storage (CCS) investments will be made available to two “commercial-scale” direct air capture (DAC) facilities. The […]
Selling Climate Vaporware to Socialists
A report about the “Allied Grounds” conference by Stephen Bouquin “Allied Grounds,” an international conference on the social dimensions of the climate crisis, took place in early October in Berlin. The conference was the culmination of an annual project of
“We must find a common language that resonates across borders and experiences.”
Response to Climate Leviathan Who will decide on climate change? Who, that is, will declare a global “climate emergency,” thereby instituting the exceptional political measures necessary to subdue the otherwise unabated, planetary ecological catastrophe of our time? Geoff Mann and
In a society that – through prophylactic measures, through the destruction of its own natural points of reference, through the whitewashing of violence, through the eradication of all germs and the cursed part, through cosmetic operations on the negative –
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From It’s going down (19/09/2023) … This summer brought yet another record heat wave, as climate change fueled disasters hit countries around the world, leaving human communities devastated by flooding, wildfires, and storms. While this “new normal” has brought climate change to the forefront of
Heating Up: An Interview With Peter Gelderloos On Climate Change And The Fight To Change Everything
In the hustle and bustle of climate scholarship it’s easy to lose sight of something fundamental about the climate crisis: it’s the direct outcome of the bourgeoisie’s drive to turn all life into profit-making opportunities. The climate crisis is a
Power, Profit and Prometheanism, Part II: Superexploitation in the Web of Life
Washington still has no reason to suspect that poor people do not prefer to be poor. Modern supply-side economics is one of the legs of the New Washington Consensus, which is not designed, like the previous one, to improve economies
The abrupt appearance of fascist, ultranationalist, racial separatist, and authoritarian movements throughout the world in the last five years—and their success in coming to power through “democratic” electoral processes—is truly terrifying. At no time since the 1930’s have we seen
Of modernity’s illusions, none is so powerful—and none more fundamental to the imperialist bourgeoisie’s belief structures—than Man and Nature (Moore 2021e). I have written these words in the uppercase because they are not merely words; they are instruments of bourgeois
How to Read Capitalism in the Web of Life: Towards a World-Historical Materialism in the Web of Life
The best starting point for reconstructing a world-historical theory of ecological transformation under capitalism is found in Marx’s concept of metabolic rift. For Marx and Engels (1970), the theory of metabolic rift centers on the ecological moment of the antagonistic
ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES AND THE METABOLIC RIFT IN WORLD-HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
How we respond depends a great deal on how we frame the problem. First, we need to change the way we understand natural processes. Nature is in a state of constant flux —always looking for new ways to use more
The Earth is Dying, But Not Fast Enough
“We, and no one else.” – There is an overwhelming scene in Todd Haynes’ latest film, Dark Waters (2019), which shows how toxic chemicals used in the production of Teflon were spilled into the Ohio River. The lawyer, who went
Only us: Ecology-against-the-State