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| Killing Me Softly: Toxic Waste, Corporate Profit, and the Struggle for Environmental Justice by Eddie J. Girdner and Jack Smith Killing Me Softly examines the growth of the toxic waste industry and the economic logic behind its expansion. It gives a hard-hitting account of the damage it has done throughout the United States. It focuses in particular on the struggle of the people of Mercer County, Missouri, against the plans of Amoco Waste-Tech to establish a huge toxic waste landfill in the county. It shows how the persistence of ordinary people in a poor and politically marginalized area could prevail against the predations of corporate power. Ecology Against Capitalism by John Bellamy Foster “Ecology Against Capitalism
is a fine and well timed book. The boom is over, the earth is warming, the
fundamental questions are coming again to the fore. Foster fortunately answers,
as only he can, in a voice both balanced and clear headed.” In a broad-ranging treatment of contemporary ecological politics, Ecology Against Capitalism covers sustainable development, ecological economics, and analyzes technological responses to environmental crisis, including pollution, population growth, soil fertility, the preservation of ancient forests, and the "new economy" of the Internet age. Hungry For Profit:
The Agribusiness Threat
to Farmers, Food, Ranging in subject from the politics of hunger to the latest agricultural biotechnologies, and in time and place from early modern Europe to contemporary Cuba, the contributions to Hungry for Profit examine the changes underway in world agriculture today and point the way toward organic, sustainable solutions to problems of food supply. |
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“In the best
tradition of Marxist scholarship, John Bellamy Foster uses the history of ideas
not as a courtesy to the past but as an integral part of current issues. He
demonstrates the centrality of ecology for a materialist conception of history,
and of historical materialism for an ecological movement.” |
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| Science and the Retreat from Reason by John Gillot and Manjit Kumar Providing a clear and accessible introduction to key areas of modern scientific thought, the authors draw out the philosophical implications of the glorification of nature and the natural: a rejection of humanism and the inability to comprehend — much less make use of — the subtleties of nature. In response, they positively reinterpret the Enlightenment-based values of progress through development of humanity's understanding and shaping of the physical world, made possible by scientific research and experimentation. |
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| New Edition “The strength of
[John Bellamy] Foster's book lies in its broad historical and geographical
sweep.... A fine contribution to a critical sociology of important
environmental issues .... Extraordinarily well written....” |
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