September 1, 2020
On January 21, 2020, Greta Thunberg, who today embodies the world’s climate conscience, gave a crystal-clear speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos. In it, she explained that in… READ MORE
December 1, 2019
On October 18, 2019, Bloomberg ran an article by its financial columnist Elisa Martinuzzi entitled “Which is Scarier, Climate Change or CLOs?” The article featured a picture of Greta Thunberg… READ MORE
November 1, 2019
We are seeing today what appear to be the beginnings of an ecological revolution, a new historical moment unlike any humanity has experienced.1 As Naomi Klein suggests in her new… READ MORE
March 1, 2019
Andrew Glikson is an Earth and Paleoclimate scientist. He is a visiting fellow at the Research School of Earth Sciences at Australian National University, College of Science. This review is… READ MORE
February 1, 2019
Cover image adapted from the mural by Banksy in Brooklyn, NY. See Benjamin Sutton, “Banksy Blitz Continues in NYC with New Murals in Brooklyn,” hyperallergic, March 19, 2018. Climatologist James… READ MORE
September 1, 2018
John Bellamy Foster is the editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. This is a slightly revised version of an article published on… READ MORE
May 1, 2017
Paul Burkett is a professor of economics at Indiana State University, Terre Haute, and coauthor, with John Bellamy Foster, of Marx and the Earth (Haymarket, 2017). In the summer of… READ MORE
February 1, 2017
John Bellamy Foster is the editor of MR and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. He is coauthor, with Paul Burkett, of Marx and the Earth (Haymarket,… READ MORE
October 1, 2016
On August 29, in a historic moment in the history of the planet, the 35-member Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) reported to the International Geological Congress that the Anthropocene epoch in… READ MORE
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
