Out of the Woods's blog

Climate change could displace millions of people. Can fascistic responses be inoculated against? The second of two pieces looking at climate migration, anti-migrant populisms, and no borders politics.

Climate change could displace millions of people, and border politics are a matter of life and death. The first of two pieces looking at climate migration, anti-migrant populisms, and no borders politics.

A review of Jason W Moore's book on world-ecology, Capitalism in the Web of Life.

Some members of Out of the Woods have written responses to a new book, Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams.

Climate change will put pressure on world food production. We must disentangle the potential benefits of agricultural science and technology from agribusiness' centralised control of the food chain.

What can we do about a problem as big as climate change? Here are six ideas.

Thinking climate futures through the image of the child and reproduction smuggles conservative assumptions into our understanding and forecloses utopian possibilities.

In this fourth installment on our series on food and climate, we look at the dynamics of capitalist agriculture in terms of production, class formation, and the ‘metabolic rift’ in the nitrogen cycle.

This Changes Everything is a book capacious enough to allow Naomi Klein two positions at once. But a real climate-justice movement will at some point have to make choices.

A brief primer on the ongoing UN climate talks, as delegates meet in Lima.

Why is there hunger? It’s nothing to do with a lack of food.

The Occupied Times has kindly given us a centre-spread in their new issue, which has an apocalypse theme.

The common-sense distinction between nature and society was established through the bloody history of capitalist and colonial development, which brought about a real separation between the social and natural worlds.

Large demonstrations are planned to push for action on climate change. Here we discuss the potentials and pitfalls of climate populism.

Class conflicts and colonial expansion in the context of the Little Ice Age lead to the emergence of capitalist agriculture and the transformation of social relations on a world scale.

Influential metaphors for understanding the environment serve as a bridge between traditional conservatism and outright ecofascism.

Climate change helped make human civilisation possible. Does it now threaten its existence?

A look at the recent debate over capitalist logistics concludes our three-part discussion of disaster communism, bringing us full circle in looking at the repurposing of infrastructure to meet human needs.

In part two of this three-part article, we look at the relationship between disaster communism, social revolution, and utopia.

In part one of this three-part article, we look at the concept of disaster communism as it relates to the communities of solidarity and mutual aid typically formed in disaster situations.