While 1492 may have been the year Columbus sailed the ocean blue, it also marks the start of a mass swapping of species between the…
Creating the Capitalocene: Endless Accumulation
The world system we know today was born in a time roughly from the mid-14th to mid-17th centuries. We understand them as a time when…
Towards Ecological Democracy – Part 1
Introduction In 2018, the issues that the Greens have made our focus for a generation –environmental destruction, corrupted politics, overwhelming corporate power, and permanent war…
Against the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene is a term geologists have begun using to refer to a new geological epoch, in which the action of humans has had such a dramatic effect upon the Earth’s climate, land, oceans and biosphere that humanity itself must now be considered a geological force in its own right.
Survival of the Richest: the wealthy are plotting to leave us behind
Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so…
Unthinking the Anthropocene: Man and Nature in the Capitalocene
The Anthropocene is the most influential environmentalist concept of the new millennium. Is it also the major dangerous? Anthropocene? Age of Man? The words are…
Wired: ‘Capitalism Made This Mess, and This Mess Will Ruin Capitalism’
You and I have the unfortunate honor of facing down a crisis the likes of which our species has never before seen. Rapid climate change…
Unearthing the Capitalocene: Towards a Reparations Ecology
Settled agriculture, cities, nation-states, information technology and every other facet of the modern world have unfolded within a long era of climatic good fortune. Those…
Who is responsible for the climate crisis?
Who is responsible for the climate crisis? For everyone who isn’t a climate denialist, there’s an easy answer to the question: humanity. Who, in their…
The Capitalocene | London Review of Books
How is the ecological predicament of the 21st century to be conceived of? Politically, how is it to be confronted, and by whom? The basic…