Jason Hickel (@jasonhickel)

I want to take a few minutes to respond to statements made by Max Roser, the director of OWID. I hope this will be helpful and constructive for all involved....

Imperialism and racism are central to the capitalist world economy. The barbarism is a feature, not a bug. Remember, capitalism is not defined by “markets and businesses and trade”. It is a system where production is controlled overwhelmingly by capital: the big banks, large corporations, and the 1...

The global North is responsible for 92% of emissions in excess of the planetary boundary, while the global South bears the brunt of the destruction. Climate breakdown is a process of atmospheric colonization, and is playing out along colonial lines. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.thelancet.c...

There is a strange idea in some environmentalist circles that human population is the main cause of ecological breakdown, and that humans have an *intrinsically* negative impact on ecosystems. Both claims are incorrect. First, human ecological impact is entirely a function of the system of product...

There's a nice table summarizing the differences between growth and post-growth metabolisms in this new Nature Sustainability article: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-022-00933-5" color="blue">nature.com/articles/s4189…</a> ...

Ecosocialism: an economic system where production is focused on ensuring good lives for all within ecological limits, controlled democratically by workers and communities, with universal public services, an equitable distribution of income, and internationalist solidarities....