"Environment and Society: Long-Term Trends in Latin American Mining"
Drawing on historical and environmental research, this essay examines long-term trends in the ways that mining affected labour and the environment in Latin America.
Drawing on historical and environmental research, this essay examines long-term trends in the ways that mining affected labour and the environment in Latin America.
This study argues that when farmers raised concerns about miners’ activities, ‘precautionary stewardship’ of the environment designed to stop entrepreneurial practices harmful to the environment was not a concern. This was a struggle over the ownership of the means of production by two competing forms of capitalism—a characteristic intra-class as well as intra-racial conflict.
Investigates the significance of the Sundarbans as a natural reserve or buffer area (a resource of yet unknown magnitude) in pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial South Asia.
This book discusses Marx’s ecological principles and materialistic views that can be traced back to mid-nineteenth-century social and scientific thought.
Earth First! 28, no. 5 looks at topics such as the legacies of race and colonialism, strategies for disrupting the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, and the shortcomings of “green” capitalism.
This paper examines the contestation of two forms of environmentalism, institutional ecomodernism versus a grassroots ecopopulism within the context of the ongoing dispute between a local community in the west of Ireland and both multinationals and the state, who are attempting to run gas pipelines from the Atlantic Corrib Field through the rural community’s lands.
Small Is Beautiful was first published in 1973 and still offers a crucial message for the modern world struggling to balance economic growth with the human costs of globalization.
Earth First! 28, no. 6 features news from the Round River Rendezvous in Ohio, from Climate Camp Australia, the West Coast Climate Convergence, the G8 protests, and the actions against the superhighway I-69.
Earth First! 30, no. 4 features a memorial on Judi Bari, and essays on militant feminism, multinationals in Chiapas rainforest, the Olympics in Vancouver, mining in Argentina, and green capitalism.