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Offloading costs and risks to labor and the public at large is a more viable solution for the capitalist class than a race to the bottom of the extraction barrel that would pit capitalist against capitalist and accelerate the earth’s chaotic exhaustion. Private green investments will help reduce cl…

If capitalists rob nature, and if nature undermines capital, everyone ends up broke. Where is the money supposed to come from? It’s a real concern: The World Bank called the early 2020s the “slowest half-decade of GDP growth in 30 years,” driven by timid capital investment.45 There are fanciful sol…

Global industrial animal production reaches apogetic heights in the American Midwest, where vertically integrated pork manufacturers intertwine their workforce and their pigs in each other’s biology to a staggering degree. For his study Porkopolis, anthropologist Alex Blanchette embedded in an Iowa…

One unseasonably hot day in the winter of 2022, I stepped through my door in Washington, DC, to the sound of birds screaming. At least that’s how I interpreted the racket in the trees. And I didn’t blame them. This weather must be driving the animals absolutely crazy, I thought. They can feel in th…

When they’re not hijacking capitalist tankers, communists often find themselves asking for sacrifices from people who have the least to sacrifice—it is not a social strategy that appeals to many people with the most, after all. While the other strategies rely on access to substantial flows of resou…