Pandemics: Humans are the culprits

The intensive agribusiness in northeast Brazil is responsible for the massive deforestation of the Cerrado, one of the world’s most diverse tropical ecosystems.

The destruction of ecosystems is not just bad news for the planet, it’s also harmful for the health of humans. The emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 is just one manifestation of the proliferation of zoonoses – diseases transmitted from animals to humans.

John Vidal

Journalist, author, and former environment editor of The Guardian newspaper

Endangered species

Published: June 29, 2014

Author: C Michael Hogan

An endangered species is a biological taxon that is at risk of becoming extinct in a proximate time frame much sooner than the long term horizon in which species typically persist.^[1]…

Green economics versus growth economics

Alfred Sisley, Snow at Louveciennes, 1874

The case of Thomas Piketty

RP 189 (Jan/Feb 2015), Rupert Read

What would be a radical economics today? It would have two components. First, it must understand economics as necessarily political economy; as a continuous human, social creation subject to political manipulation and to new positive political vision and action. Second, it must be a Green ecological economics. That is, it must have absorbed the central ‘Copernican’ insight of the founders of ecological economics, Herman Daly and Robert Costanza: that present-day human desires must be displaced as the centre of the system of economics by the capacity of the earth (energized by the sun) to support life indefinitely into the future. And it must be a Green economics by virtue of rejecting Costanza’s absorption of the value of life into the neoclassical/ neoliberal economy, an absorption manifested for instance in the programme of the economic valuation of ‘ecosystem services’. [1 ]