Nature and society in a warming world
by Ian Angus
Feb 22, 2018
Ian Angus argues that Andreas Malm’s powerful critique of current environmental philosophies puts historical materialism and cutting-edge science at the center of a call for militant action. Also see a supplement to this review by reader of Climate & Capitalism: “New Materialism: Idealism of the Most Useless Sort.”
Anyone who reads contemporary green literature has seen books with titles like The End of Nature, and statements such as these:
- “There is no such thing as nature.”1
- “Nature is nothing if it is not social.”2
- “Many of us no longer believe in a Nature that is independent of the Anthropos.”3
- “There is nothing in our environment that we have not, in some sense or other, had a hand in producing.”4
- “In every respect the world we inhabit will henceforth be the world we have made.”5
- “The contrast between what is nature and what is not no longer makes any sense.”6
Read more at https://mronline.org/2018/02/22/the-progress-of-this-storm/
