
Marxism and the Climate Crisis
Historical Materialism Podcast
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The Anthroposene Crisis
Anthropocene is a term used to describe the Anthroposene crisis that exists in the present day. The modern environmental movement emerged at the same time, and this immediately induced anancological crisis which we sometimes call the anthropocene crisis. Itsthe product of the whole development of the economic system, and the scale of our effects on the environment. We have to realize that this is going to persist, that we can't go back from industrial society. And so the we either end up with an anthropcene extinction event, which is what we're heading towards now,. or we find a way to develop a sustainable relation to the earth.
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