Table of Contents
House Organ 1
Essays
A World’s End: Drought, Famine and
Imperialism (1896-1902)
By Mike Davis 3
The Politics of Nature: Reflections on Hedonism,
Progress and Ecology
By Kate Soper 47
Eppur´ Si Muove
Are We Programmed?
By Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins 71
History and Nature
A Prolegomenon to an Ecological Marxism: Thoughts
on the Materialist Conception of History
By James O’Connor 77
Ripples In Clio’s Pond
Darwin in the Galápagos
By J. Donald Hughes 107
Capitalism and Nature
Picking Our Poisons: Risk Ethics, Pesticides, and
American Environmentalism
By Tim Stroshane 115
Brief
Beyond the Staples Economy: The Case for Clean
Production and Just Transition
By David Peerla 153
Review Essay
Brian Tokar, Earth for Sale: Reclaiming Ecology in the
Age of Corporate Greenwash
Joshua Karliner, The Corporate Planet: Ecology and
Politics in the Age of Globalization
Carl Frankel, In Earth’s Company: Business,
Environment and the Challenge of Sustainability
By David Barkin 159
Book Reviews
Colin Duncan, The Centrality of Agriculture: Between
Humankind and the Rest of Nature
By Harriet Friedmann 163
Richard Powers, Gain
By Joel Kovel 169
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