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
Article Subjects and Geography: Climate Change
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
Laudato SiÑThe Pope’s Anti-Systemic Encyclical
December 1, 2015
Michael Löwy‘s most recent book is Ecosocialism: A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe (Haymarket, 2015). The original Spanish-language version of this article will appear in the journal Papeles. � Pope… READ MORE
The Great Capitalist Climacteric: Marxism and “System Change Not Climate Change”
November 1, 2015
This article is from a keynote address presented at Manifesta in Ostend, Belgium on September 19, 2015. This year’s Manifesta was organized around the theme of climate change in preparation… READ MORE
When Did the Anthropocene BeginÉand Why Does It Matter?
September 1, 2015
Ian Angus is editor of the online journal Climate & Capitalism. He is co-author of Too Many People? Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis (Haymarket, 2011), and editor of The… READ MORE
Crossing the River of Fire: The Liberal Attack on Naomi Klein and ‘This Changes Everything’
February 1, 2015
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Brett Clark is associate professor of sociology at the University of Utah and co-author… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, November 2014
November 1, 2014
On September 20, 2014, while corporate and government officials arrived in New York City for the UN Climate Summit, organizers and activists from around the world participated in a peoples’… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, February 2008
February 1, 2008
Twenty years ago climatologist James Hansen of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies, widely considered to be the world’s leading authority on global warming, first brought the issue into the… READ MORE