A short piece I wrote for Climate & Capitalism on this age-old debate between Marxism and populationism
was just published. It offers a brief overview of the Marxist critique
of Malthus's original argument and their contemporary Green
permutations. The main thesis is that this ideology misrepresents social
and ecological problems, and thereby promotes solutions that exacerbate
the underlying contradictions of which these problems are symptoms
Despite being consistently discredited, overpopulation ideology
resurfaces with the same predictable regularity as capitalist crises.
Such ideology continues to prevail in the environmental movement, legitimizing a shallow focus on individual symptoms of our ecological crisis rather than the profound contradiction that underlie them. Only Marxism offers a clear and viable resolution to these contradictions, and thereby a path beyond piecemeal technocratic measures that doesn't end in green authoritarianism. The full article is available on the Climate & Capitalism website.
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