John Bellamy Foster argues that understanding how the transmission of viruses between species occurs is crucial to grasping the full dimensions of the overall metabolic crisis affecting humanity.

Can you feel it? There is a palpable dread that the ruling class, which owns financial and industrial capital, will continue ...

Preface -- Introduction: A rift in earth and time -- Part 1: Capitalism and unsustainable development. The paradox of wealth ; Rifts and shifts ; Capitalism in wonderland ; The Midas effect ; Carbon ...

Massive structural, geographic, and socioeconomic transformations have taken place in livestock production since the mid-20th century. Drawing from Marx’s theory of metabolic rift, as developed by ...

A brilliant theoretical physicist best known for his theory of relativity, Albert Einstein was also a socialist. John Bellamy Foster describes Einstein’s radical political commitments, including his ...

Soil is essential for terrestrial life on earth. And like so many other parts of the environment, it’s under threat, degraded in a world where it’s being built on, contaminated, and eroded. Geographer ...