Submitted by Out of the Woods on Dec 6 2016 09:36
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.
Submitted by Out of the Woods on Nov 25 2016 09:57
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.
Submitted by Out of the Woods on Mar 16 2016 11:14
A review of Jason W Moore's book on world-ecology, Capitalism in the Web of Life.
Submitted by Out of the Woods on Nov 6 2015 11:49
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.
Submitted by Out of the Woods on Jul 17 2015 10:38
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.
Submitted by Out of the Woods on Jun 9 2015 10:01
What can we do about a problem as big as climate change? Here are six ideas.
Submitted by Out of the Woods on May 17 2015 21:32
Thinking climate futures through the image of the child and reproduction smuggles conservative assumptions into our understanding and forecloses utopian possibilities.
Submitted by Out of the Woods on Mar 6 2015 18:25
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.
Submitted by Out of the Woods on Jan 9 2015 13:42
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.
Submitted by Out of the Woods on Dec 3 2014 18:26
A brief primer on the ongoing UN climate talks, as delegates meet in Lima.
Submitted by Out of the Woods on Nov 17 2014 19:03
Why is there hunger? It’s nothing to do with a lack of food.
Submitted by Out of the Woods on Oct 24 2014 09:40
The Occupied Times has kindly given us a centre-spread in their new issue, which has an apocalypse theme.
Submitted by Out of the Woods on Sep 25 2014 08:54
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.
Submitted by Out of the Woods on Sep 10 2014 15:41
Large demonstrations are planned to push for action on climate change. Here we discuss the potentials and pitfalls of climate populism.
Submitted by Out of the Woods on Aug 18 2014 09:54
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.
Submitted by Out of the Woods on Jun 30 2014 09:21
Influential metaphors for understanding the environment serve as a bridge between traditional conservatism and outright ecofascism.
Submitted by Out of the Woods on Jun 9 2014 13:11
Climate change helped make human civilisation possible. Does it now threaten its existence?
Submitted by Out of the Woods on May 22 2014 09:57
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.
Submitted by Out of the Woods on May 14 2014 08:25
In part two of this three-part article, we look at the relationship between disaster communism, social revolution, and utopia.
Submitted by Out of the Woods on May 8 2014 08:17
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.