Discusses the public and private sector's attempts to address environmental problems and explains why they have not worked.

Foster demonstrates that the only possible answer for humanity is an ecological revolution: a struggle to make peace with the planet.

" "This revised edition includes a new afterword by the author."--BOOK JACKET.

John Bellamy Foster examines Marx's neglected writings on capitalist agriculture and soil ecology, philosophical naturalism, and evolutionary theory.

Foster's introduction sets out the unifying themes of these essays enabling the reader to draw from them a consolidated approach to a rapidly-expanding field of debate which is of critical importance in our times.