Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ecology against capitalism -- The ecological tyranny of the bottom line : the environmental and social consequences of economic reductionism -- Global ecology and the common good -- Ecology and human freedom -- "Let them eat pollution" : capitalism and the world environment -- The scale of our ecological crisis -- Sustainable development of what? -- The heresy of ecological economics -- Globalization and the ecological morality of place -- Capitalism's environmental crisis-is technology the answer? -- The limits of environmentalism without class : lessons from the ancient forest struggle in the pacific northwest -- Malthus's essay on population at age 200 : a Marxian view -- Liebig, Marx, and the depletion of soil fertility : relevance for today's agriculture.