Capitalism

International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts year-on-year reduction of around 2.6 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from energy use because of coronavirus.

Recovering from this pandemic is an immense opportunity to reshape our economic systems and our relationship to the natural world.

The psychosomatic effects of this pandemic will be carried in our bodies and will redefine our relationships with ourselves, others and the Earth.

We must push for social and climate justice to be at the heart of recovery efforts as big capital works out how to profit from Covid-19.

'This is retail Armageddon.' Fast fashion faces collapse as people switch to necessary products like food during the coronavirus shutdown.

The third in a three-part interview on capitalism and climate breakdown from Political Economy for the End Times.

The second in a three-part interview on capitalism and climate breakdown from Political Economy for the End Times.

The first in a three-part interview on capitalism and climate breakdown from the podcast Political Economy for the End Times.

The coronavirus pandemic offers a chance to right historical wrongs – the abuse of our earthly home and of marginalised societies.

We watch as people panic-buy loo roll. But behind the scenes traders are panic buying gold bars as world markets crash - and there are none left.

The decision to defend capital has led to governments taking too little action too late to stop the spread of novel coronavirus.

Zarah Sultana MP: 'Let's be clear - a market approach to the outbreak will condemn working class people to decimation.'

No single country is adequately protecting children's health or environment.

Amazon, BlackRock and owner of Versace among 242 leading companies and financial institutions which fail to recognise responsibility to act on deforestation.

An interview with George Monbiot, ahead of his talk at the Gillian Lynne Theatre in London on 11 February 2020.

Review: Living Well at Others’ Expense - The Hidden Costs of Western Prosperity, by Stephan Lessenich.

The Green Party co-leader tells BBC One's The Andrew Marr Show we need to focus on fossil fuel companies and not judge individuals.

Frontline communities are showing the way to a 'post-extractive' renewable energy transition that is socially just and ecologically viable.

Historical Materialism 2019 focusses on disaster communism, extinction capitalism, and how to survive tomorrow.

Extinction Rebellion hits the financial district - echoing Occupy London protests that began in 2011 and lasted months.

Founder of organic veg box company Riverford used acceptance speech in front of royalty to highlight how capitalism is ‘destroying our collective future’.

The Anthropocene is generating despair and desolation. The Symbiocene represents its opposite.

'The pursuit of profit has taken priority over people, over the environment, over everything.'

Challenging individual consumerism must occur in synchrony with critiquing broader capitalist systems.