Environment

Environment, News, Politics

Immigrants: How Many Is Too Many?

How many immigrants can the United States accommodate? -- asks Alan Johnstone (SPGB)

4 min read

Environment, healthcare, News, Science

COVID-19: The Lab-leak Hypothesis

Did the coronavirus leap from bat to man at a wildlife market or inside a scientific laboratory? We may never know for sure, but the lab-leak hypothesis is plausible. What are the implications?

3 min read

Capitalism, Economics, Environment, healthcare, Housing, News, Science, Socialism

Markets Are Trash

The Covid-19 pandemic exposes the cruel and absurd results of relying on markets for the satisfaction of human needs. In Las Vegas homeless men sleep on a parking lot on a street full of empty hotels.

4 min read

Economics, Environment, healthcare, News, Politics, Science

Why the Shortage of Medical Supplies?

Why are medical supplies in such short supply? This study explains the main reasons and presents three case studies: respiratory face masks, ventilators, and vaccines.

16 min read

Capitalism, Class, Economics, Environment, healthcare, Marxism

The Virus and the Money-tree

A Marxian analysis of the pandemic, its origin, and its economic impact. Reposted from the magazine Internationalist Perspective.

11 min read

Environment, Evolution, News

The Coronavirus, Bats, and Deforestation

What is a coronavirus? Where does the latest one come from? Why do we now face an epidemic about once every decade? And could this be linked to deforestation?

8 min read

Capitalism, Environment

Green Capitalism?

What if there was a way to make capitalism environmentally friendly and more economically robust, in a way that benefited workers in particular? Liberals like Bernie Sanders and congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are claiming that a ‘Green New Deal’ would do just that. Can it? Or is it the very nature of capitalism that makes it so destructive to the environment?

6 min read

Environment

Enough Is Enough! Joe the Dolphin Speaks Out

Joe the Dolphin pleads for more dolphin-friendly fishing methods and against the construction of a hydroelectric dam on the Mekong.

5 min read

Capitalism, Economics, Environment, Marxism

Hope or Hoax: Reflections on the Green New Deal

Can a Green New Deal within capitalism resolve the climate crisis? The author of this article, reproduced from the journal Internationalist Perspective, argues that any such program would be either inadequate or incompatible with the capitalist drive for growth.

17 min read

Capitalism, Environment, Socialism

Global Heating and Socialism

The author formulates alternative long-range scenarios for human survival or extinction in the context of global heating. What are the prospects of 'green capitalism'? What does the climate crisis imply for our thinking about socialism?

10 min read