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...