Water Tech Innovation Raises Questions About Climate Solution Ownership
Professor Omar Yaghi's atmospheric water-harvesting technology represents a genuine technical breakthrough addressing a critical human need—access to clean water amid escalating climate disasters. The technology's decentralized, off-grid design could theoretically liberate communities from...
Degrowth Economists Map Route Beyond Capitalist Climate Deadlock
This opinion piece by Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis represents a significant intervention in mainstream discourse—The Guardian publishing an explicitly anti-capitalist analysis of the climate crisis. The authors identify the fundamental contradiction between capitalism's growth imperative and...
Flood Devastation Reveals Centuries of Capitalist Wetland Destruction
Storm Chandra's devastation of British wildlife reveals not a natural disaster but the accumulated consequences of capitalist transformation of the landscape. The UK has lost over 90% of its wetlands in the past century—a systematic destruction driven by agricultural intensification and land...
EPA Becomes Pollution Agency as Capital Captures the State
The systematic dismantling of the Environmental Protection Agency under the Trump administration represents a textbook case of regulatory capture—where the capitalist class seizes direct control of state apparatus designed to constrain its profit-making activities. With former chemical industry...
Wetland Farming Reveals Tensions in Green Capitalism
This account of paludiculture on the Somerset Levels illustrates the complex intersection of ecological crisis, agricultural transformation, and emerging green commodity markets. On its surface, the story presents an optimistic narrative: farmers adapting to climate reality by cultivating bulrush...