Tag Archives: capitalocene

With the IPCC’s most recent report clanging “Code Red for Humanity” we revisit our show with Jason Moore, author of Capitalism in the Web of Life, from December 2019…it’s only gotten, and will continue getting, worse. Interchange – Disorganizing Nature: On the Capitalocene with Jason Moore “Moore’s writing is that of a sincere, discerning and formidable critic of ecological and …

Today we look at the local effects of COVID-19 in and around the major cities of Italy and then we’ll widen our view to try to see the socio-political impacts of governmentality in the face of a crisis like a pandemic. Using both lenses we hope to find a focus that often escapes us when confronting the global and seemingly …

On April 22nd 1970, Democratic Senator Garland Nelson, originator of the idea of Earth Day, proclaimed: Winning the environmental war is a whole lot tougher challenge by far than winning any other war in the history of Man. It will take $20 to $25 billion more a year in Federal money than we are spending or asking for now. Our …

Since the 1970’s, environmentalists have framed our epoch as the “Anthropocene,” a period defined by man’s — and often specifically men’s — unidirectional impact on a quickly heating planet Earth. The so-called Anthropocene continues to be caused by only a small portion of the people on the planet, following hierarchies of race, gender, class, and the artificial division of Man …