The Vulnerable Planet

John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review. He is professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and author of The Ecological Revolution, The Great Financial Crisis (with Fred Magdoff), Critique of Intelligent Design (with Brett Clark and Richard York), Ecology Against Capitalism, Marx's Ecology, and The Vulnerable Planet.

The ecological crisis; ecological conditions before the Industrial Revolution; the environment at the time of the Industrial Revolution; expansion and conservation; imperialism and ecology; the vulnerable planet; new afterword.