12 August, 2020 — Climate & Capitalism
Metabolic Rifts
Worldwide, there are now over a thousand coastal areas where fish can’t breathe. The nitrogen that makes crops grow is also destroying offshore ecosystems.
| “Let us not, however, flatter ourselves overmuch on account of our human victories over nature. For each such victory nature takes its revenge on us. Each victory, it is true, in the first place brings about the results we expected, but in the second and third places it has quite different, unforeseen effects which only too often cancel the first.” —Frederick Engels |
Continuing our series on metabolic rifts in the 21st century. As always, comments, questions and corrections are welcome.
by Ian Angus
Documentary on ‘clean meat’ fails to question the technology’s rationale and blindly accepts dubious claims made by its promoters
Researchers find that much supposedly recycled plastic from Europe is in fact exported to Southeast Asia and dumped