John Bellamy Foster reflects on the enduring relevance of Einstein’s “Why Socialism?” in this fourth segment of our series on ecology and materialism. Marx’s foundations of ecological...
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In this third segment of a series on ecology and materialism, John Bellamy Foster concludes that across different societies starting from ancient China, the Hellenistic world and India, there is a parallelism...
In Part 2, John Bellamy Foster debunks the misconception that socialism and materialism had no role in the development of ecological analysis. His research shows that socialist transformation involves the...
In this first segment of a series on ecology and materialism, John Bellamy Foster explains how Marx, who was not a natural scientist learned from chemists, physicists, biologists and the ancient Greek...
Raj Patel and his fellow IPES-Food experts stress the centrality of addressing food systems, a key pillar of the Action Agenda for the COP30. The message uncovered by Lula’s bold policies is clear: ending...
James K. Galbraith (Entropy Economics) argues that economics cannot keep ignoring that energy and resources for production are no longer abundant and easy to access. Drawing from the fundamental laws of...
Jane D’Arista walks us through a comprehensive analysis of a global economy flooded with US dollar liabilities, economies bound to damaging export-led growth models, and vulnerable households piling up useless...
Jim Thomas portrays the 2024 Global Biodiversity Convention as a struggle between the interests of the world's biggest profit makers and the interests of people struggling to safeguard their planet, their food...
Jim Thomas says profit driven generative biology, Big Tech integration of artificial intelligence with synthetic biology, raises serious challenges for global oversight of biotechnology and governments need to...
Five experts raise red flag ahead of 2024 UN Biodiversity Conference (COP16 CBD) – Jim Thomas, Florian Rabitz, Ossama Abdelkawy, Lim Li Ching and Guy Kastler – each voicing the urgent need to...