The looming environmental crisis forces socialists to confront difficult questions thought and action. - In capitalism threatened by the ecological crisis, or can it prevail in an increasingly degraded planet? - What will the legacy of capitalism s environmental destruction mean for any future socialist society? - How can the socialist goal of international equality be met without aggravating the biosphere s destruction? - What are the implications of environmental destruction for any future socialist society? Περιέχονται τα κείμενα: - Neil Smith, "Nature as accumulation strategy" - Elmar Altvater, "The social and environment of fossil capitalism" - Daniel Buck, "The ecological question: can capitalism prevail?" - Michael Lowy, "Eco-socialism and democratic planning" - Costas Panayotakis, "Working more, selling more, consuming more: capitalism΄s third contradiction" - Joan Martinez - Alier, "Social metabolism and environmental conflicts" - Greg Albo, "The limits of eco-localism: scale, trategy, socialism" - Frieder Otto Wolf, "Party-building for eco-socialists: lessons from the failed project of the German Greens" - Philip McMichael, "Feeding the world: agriculture development and ecology" - Erik Swyngedouw, "Water, money and power" - Achim Brunnengraber , "The political economy of the Kyoto protocol" - Heather Rogers, "Garbage capitalism΄s green commerce" - Barbara Harriss - White , Elinor Harriss , "Unsustainable capitalism: the politics of renewable energy in the UK" - Jamie Peck , "Neoliberal hurricane: who framed New Orleans?" - Dale Wen , Minqi Li , "China: hyper-development and environmental crisis" - Henry Bernstein , Philip Woodhouse, "Africa: eco-populist utopias and (micro-)capitalist realities" - Brenda Longefellow, "Weather report: image from the climate crisis"