The Ecological Revolution: Making Peace with the Planet

by John Bellamy Foster

Book Overview

Since the atomic bomb made its first appearance on the world stage in 1945, it has been clear that we possess the power to destroy our own planet. What nuclear weapons made possible, global environmental crisis, marked especially by global warming, has now made inevitable--if business as usual continues.
The roots of the present ecological crisis, John Bellamy Foster argues in The Ecological Revolution, lie in capital's rapacious expansion,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158367179X
• ISBN13: 9781583671795
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Monthly Review Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.1"