Archive of Ecology

How can we develop a theory and practice of ecological counterpower that is commensurate to the coming catastrophe? Davide Gallo Lassere on the limits of Andreas Malm's ecological Leninism. 

In a series of two articles, Davide Gallo Lassere explores the history and present state of global warming, fossil fuels and Covid-19 in critical dialogue with Andreas Malm's eco-Marxism. 

Reading Malm thorugh the prism of Workerism, Davide Gallo Lassere discusses the historic relation between fossil fuels, labour power and global warming. 

As authors Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass argue in their thrilling and provocative new book, we must humbly accept that humanity cannot fully understand or control the earth—but we can plan new energy systems, large-scale rewilding, and food production for the common good.

Here the authors present their Five Book Plan for imagining a utopian eco-socialist future – or a future at all.

Liam Campling and Alejandro Colás, authors of the book Capitalism and the Sea, pick 5 books for understanding the politics of the world's oceans.

The industry often presents the relation between job precarity and environmental degradation as a zero-sum game: if something is to be gained in terms of good jobs, something must be lost on the the side of health and environment.  Here, Lorenzo Feltrin argues that employment precarisation and environmental degradation are far from incompatible, they both result from the capitalist imperative to economise while producing evermore commodities.

Andreas Malm response to critics of How to Blow Up a Pipeline and asks when, and how, will the militant resistance movement emerge.

For Jean-Baptiste Fressoz and Fabien Locher, the evolution of climates has been of concern to humans for five centuries, and the subject has been central to political and social debates well beyond scientific circles.

Malm and the Zetkin Collective's latest contribution reveals the racist roots of ecofascism.

On the publication of his new book, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Andreas Malm reaffirms the call for climate action