James Hansen, a leading US climatologist and director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, warns that global climate change today constitutes a ‘planetary emergency’. Existing trends threaten to set in mo- tion irreversible climate transformations, proceeding ‘mostly under their own momentum’, thereby fundamentally transforming the conditions of life on earth (Hansen, 2008b: 7–8).
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John Bellamy Foster
Professor of Sociology & Editor of Monthly Review Magazine
Monthly Review Articles
- Braverman, Monopoly Capital, and AI: The Collective Worker and the Reunification of Labor December 1, 2024
- Preface to the German Edition of Marx’s Ecology December 1, 2024
- The New Denial of Imperialism on the Left November 1, 2024
- The Ecological Rift in the Anthropocene September 1, 2024
- Imperialism in the Indo-Pacific—An Introduction July 1, 2024
- Ecosocialism and Degrowth June 1, 2024
- Einstein’s “Why Socialism?” and ‘Monthly Review’: A Historical Introduction May 1, 2024