Index

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African Americans, see blacks

African National Congress (ANC)

agribusiness

agricultural societies

agriculture; under capitalism; cooperatives for; domestication of plants and animals for; of early Americans; industrial, costs o; invention of; irrigation for; land use for; modern; native species removed by; oppression of women tied to; organic matter cycle and; preventive approach to; reducing wastes from

air conditioning

air pollution

Akerlof, George

Alexander, Michelle

alienation; of labor

Allende, Salvador

Amazon rain forest

Amazon River

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

American Petroleum Institute

Americas; pre-Columbian societies in

Amin, Samir

Anabaena azollae

anadromous fish

Angus, Ian

Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (2006)

animals; domestication of; farm animals; humans and; interactions between microbes and; nutrient cycles in; in sustainable agriculture; urban wildlife; wild

Antarctica

Anthropocene epoch

anti-immigrant policies

aquifers

Arab Spring

Archambault, David, II

Arctic Ocean

Aristotle

asthma

atmosphere: carbon dioxide in; nitrogen in

automation

automobiles; eliminating need for; nitrous oxide emitted by; storage space for; suburbs dependent upon

Bacon, Francis

Baldwin, James

Baran, Paul

Barnard Columbia Solidarity Network

Barringer, Felicity

batteries

Baum, Dan

BDS (Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions) movement

beavers

Beckert, Sven

bees

Benyus, Janine

Berry, Wendell

Bilas, Fran

biodiversity

biofuels

biological determinism: epigenetics and; women and

biology

biomagnification

biomes

biomimicry

biophilia

biosphere; carbon cycle in; human interactions with; introduction of; nutrient cycles in

Bishop, Dorothy

bison

Bittman, Mark

Black, James F.

Black Lives Matter movement

black lung disease

blacks: as “other”; racism against

Blake, William

Bland, Sandra

blue-green algae (cyanobacteria)

Bolivia

bonobos

Bowden, B.V.

Boyce, Tom

Boykin, Richard

Brandon, William

Braso, Philip

Braungart, Michael

Brazil

Brizendine, Louann

Brooks, Nathan

Brown, Lester

Brown, Michael

buen vivir (living well)

Buffett, Warren

Bush, George W.

Butler, Simon

Cáceres, Berta

calcium carbonate (CaCO3)

Cambodia

Campanale, Mark

Canada

capitalism; adapting to climate change; climate change tied to; current state of; democracy not essential for; dismantling; early opponents of; effects on people of; effects on workers of; environmental consequences of; externalities of; global ecological crisis tied to; green capitalism; growth under; human nature and; imperialism and wars tied to; inevitability of; markets under; monopoly power under; nature under; poisoning tied to; post-WWII expansion of; public opinion on; racism and; revolution to replace; rise and growth of; transition to ecosocialism from; waste in; wealth under

Capra, Fritjof

carbon: climate change tied to; in low-carbon production of energy

carbon capture and storage (CCS)

carbon cycle; organic matter cycle and

carbon dioxide (CO2)

carbon tax

cars, see automobiles

Carson, Rachel

caste system

Castile, Philando

catastrophe bonds

Central America, Hurricane Mitch in

Ceres (mythical)

charities

Chase, Stuart

chemical industry

Chicago (Illinois); coyotes in

Chile

chimpanzees

China: air pollution in; economic growth in

chinampa system

cities; development of; divide between rural areas and; under ecosocialism; future of; nature and; urban heat island effect in

Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH)

class: development of; environment and; human nature and

Clean Air Task Force

climate change; carbon cycle and; global warming in; as human interaction with environment; natural disasters; People’s Climate March on; profiting from; public acceptance of; as social justice issue; tied to fossil fuels

Clinton, Bill

Clinton, Hillary

Clinton administration

coal; black lung disease tied to; health effects of; regulation of; used in steel production

Cochabamba (Bolivia)

colonialism; in settler colonies

Colorado potato beetles

Colorado River

Columbia University

Columbus, Christopher

commodity fetishism

Commoner, Barry

communications

computers, women’s contributions to

Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)

conservation, of water

consumerism

consumption; waste tied to

cooking, energy for

cooperation

corn

Costanza, Robert

cotton

cover crops

coyotes

credit

Crick, Francis

crimes

Cronon, William

Cuba

cyanobacteria (blue-green algae)

Dais Bestas, Meral

Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL)

dams

Darwin, Charles; on giant tortoises; Marx on

deaths: of blacks by police; caused by air pollution; human anticipation of; in imperial interventions; murders of environmental activists

de Beauvoir, Simone

debts; jailings because of

Declaration of Independence (1776)

Deepwater Horizon oil disaster

deforestation; of rain forests; UN REDD program on

democracy; political and economic

Democratic Party

Denmark

Despond, Matthew

de Waal, Frans

Dewey, John

disabilities

disasters

discrimination

diversity

dolphins

Dorman, Peter

Douglass, Frederick

dress codes

droughts

Du Bois, W. E. B.

Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne

DuPont (firm)

Earth: as dynamic system; holistic view of

Earth Day

earthquakes

Eastgate Center (Zimbabwe)

ecology: development of movement around; ecosocialism and; ideology and; Keller and Golley on; origins of word; Tansley on; urban

e-commerce

economic growth, see growth

economic planning

economic surplus

economy: of ancient Greece; under ecosocialism; financialization of; origins of word; public opinion on

ecosocialism; changing ethics and behavior under; economy under; environmental remediation and regeneration under; equality under; new patterns of living under; revolution to replace capitalism with; society consistent with; transformation from capitalism to

ecosystems; biodiversity in; carbon cycle in; cities as; diversity in; nutrient cycles in; resilience and regeneration of; self-renewal following disturbances in; stability and resilience in

ecotones

Eden (biblical)

education, discrimination in

Edwardsm Marc

Einstein, Albert

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

elderly people

elections

electricity: production of; renewable energy sources for

Ellsworth, Bill

emotions; greed as

empathy

employment: full employment; in gig economy; unemployment and

Enclosure Acts (UK)

endangered species, leatherback turtles

endocrine disruptors

Endocrine Society

energy; for agriculture; air pollution linked to; fossil fuels used for; low-carbon production of; renewable; US consumption of

energy networks

Engels, Frederick; on humans as part of nature; on impacts of capitalism; on interactions of organisms with environment; on interdependence in nature; on learning nature’s laws; on natural laws

ENIAC computer

environment: cities as; consequences of capitalism for; epigenetics and; human interactions with; human interventions in; metabolic interactions between humans and; planning for; race, class and; remediation and regeneration of, under ecosocialism

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): on contaminated drinking water; industrial chemicals tested by; on phosphorus pollution; regulation of coal power by

Epicurus

epigenetics

equality

Erysichthon (mythical)

ethics

European Union, UK leaves

Evelyn, John

evolution: of humans; variation through natural selection in; violence and aggression in

e-waste

exchange value

externalities

extinctions: caused by climate change; of giant tortoise; loss of biodiversity due to; rates of

Exxon (firm)

factory farming

Faghri, Ardeshi

Fanon, Franz

farm animals

farming, see agriculture

fashion

Fausto-Sterling, Anne

Ferguson (Missouri)

fertilizers

Fields, Barbara

Fields, Karen

financial sector

fires, in rain forests

fishing and fisheries: community control over; overfishing and

Flint (Michigan)

flow batteries

food: growing; population and; storage of; wasted; see also agriculture

food movement

food webs

forests; reforestation of; see also rain forests

Foroohar, Rana

fossil fuels; carbon dioxide released by; increase in use of; reduced consumption of; used by military

fracking

France

Franklin, Benjamin

Franklin, Rosalind

free trade agreements

Freidman, Thomas

freshwater

Fukuyama, Francis

full employment

functional diversity

fungi; mycorrhizae fungi

Furman, Jason

Galápagos Islands (Ecuador)

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Galeano, Eduardo

Garcia, Omar

Garner, Eric

Gehl, Jan

Gehrt, Stanley

gender: biological differences between; equality of, among hunter-gatherers; equality of, among Native Americans; sciences and

General Motors (firm)

genetics: epigenetics and; low variability among humans of; race and; women’s contributions to

George III (king, England)

Germany

giant sequoia

giant tortoises

gig economy

Gilens, Martin

global cycles

Global South

global warming; carbon cycle and; public acceptance of; see also climate change

Glowacki, Luke

Goldman, Emma

Goldsmith, Oliver

Golley, Frank

Goodall, Jane

Gordon Gekko (fictional character)

Gould, Stephen Jay

government: complicity in racism of; economic planning by; regulations by

Gray, Freddie

Gray, John

Great Recession (2007-2009)

Greece, ancient

greed

green capitalism

greenhouse gases: integrated animal-crop farms to reduce; methane as; nitrous oxide as; produced by diesel-powered vehicles; released from permafrost; responsibility for

Greenland

green roofs

green spaces

gross national happiness index

growth (economic): current slowdown in; ecological crisis tied to; necessary under capitalism; perpetual

Gudynas, Eduardo

Gulf of Mexico

Habeck, Robert

Haeckel, Ernst

Harari, Yuval

Harvey, David

health: effects of unemployment on; exposure to nature and; impact of air pollution on; poverty and; racism and

healthcare

heat energy

Helm, Dieter

Heraclitus

Herrnstein, Richard

Hill, Joe

Hindus

Holder, Eric, Jr.

Holling, C. S.

Holt-Gimenez, Eric

Homan Square (Chicago)

homelessness

Homo naledi

Homo sapiens, see humans

Honduras

Horgan, John

hornworm caterpillars

horticultural societies

household wastes

housing: destruction of houses for; discrimination in; energy used in; future of; poverty and

human nature; capitalism and; prosocial traits in; warfare and

humans; animals and; biological equality of; climate change caused by; extinctions caused by; global changes induced by actions of; in horticultural societies; as hunters and gatherers; ideology, ecology and; interactions with biosphere; low genetic variability among; metabolic interactions between environment and; microbes inside of; nature distinguished from; plants, microorganisms and; races among; resilience in communities of; self-regulation among; wastes of

hunger and malnutrition

Hunt, Sir Timothy

hunter-gatherer societies; cooperation among; violence among

Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Mitch

Hurricane Sandy

Hussein, Saddam

hydroelectricity

hydrologic cycle

Ibrahim, Fawzi

ice

ice caps

ideology

immune system, microbes in

imperialism

income inequality

India

indigenous people; see also Native Americans

Indochina

Indonesia: rain forests in; slaughter of communists in

Industrial Revolution

inequality; income inequality

inheritance of property

insects; crops attractive to

intelligence, human

International Indian Treaty Council

internationalism

international trade; lack of growth in; post-WWII expansion of

International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

Internet

Iraq

Iroquois Confederacy

irrigation

Islam

Islamic State (ISIS)

Israel

Japan

Jeffery, Suzanne

jellyfish

Jennings, Betty

Johnson, Katherine G.

Johnson, Walter

Keller, David R.

Keltner, Dacher

Khmer Rouge (Cambodia)

King, Barbara

King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Kipling, Rudyard

Kissinger, Henry

Klein, Naomi

Klein, Stefan

Kopenawa, Davi

Kornbluh, Peter

Kotler, Philip

Kristof, Nicholas

Krugman, Paul

!Kung (people)

labor; alienation of; under ecosocialism; unpaid, of women

labor unions, see unions

Lakoff, George

land; changes in use of; Leopold’s ethic of; in settler colonies; used for parking spaces

landfills

Landless Workers Movement (Brazil)

language

Lankester, Ray

Lapidous, Daniela

Las Lajitas agricultural cooperative (Venezuela)

lead, in water

leadership

leatherback turtles

Lebow, Victor

Le Jeune, Paul

Leopold, Aldo

Levins, Richard

Lewis, Michael

LGBTQ community

Lichterman, Ruth

Liebig, Justus

localist movement

local resources

London (UK)

Lonesome George (giant tortoise)

Lovelace, Ada

luxury items

macuna

Magdoff, Harry

mammals

mangrove forests

Manning, Chelsea

markets (economic)

Marshall, Julian

Martens, Bob

Marx, Karl: on capitalist growth; on commodity fetishism; on Darwin; on development of individuals; on Earth; on ecologic effects of capitalism; on ecology; on human nature; on metabolic rift; on metabolism; on money; on nutrient cycles; on replacing capitalism; on social metabolism; on transition to socialism; on varied life

mass movements; fragmentation of; internationalism in; leadership of; organization for; for radical social transformation; unification of

mastodons

Mayan civilization

McAlevey, Jane

McAnany, Patricia

McBride, Samantha

McChesney, Robert

McClintock, Barbara

McDonald, Laquan

McDonough, William

McKibben, Bill

McNulty, Kay

Mead, Margaret

medicines, plant-based

Merchant, Carolyn

metabolism; biological

metals

methane (natural gas)

Mexico

microbiomes, human

microorganisms; cyanobacteria; interactions between animals and; in nitrogen cycle

Midas (mythical)

Milanovic, Branko

military, waste in

mixed cropping (polyculture)

money

monopoly power

Montagnais-Naskapi (people)

Montaigne, Michel de

Morgan, Kelly

Muinjangue, Esther

Mulkey, Stephen

municipal solid waste

Murray, Alan

Murray, Charles

Muscatell, Keely

Muslims: antagonisms between other groups and; in Iraq

mycorrhizae fungi

nation-states: end of; imperialism and; in rise of capitalism

Native Americans: corn used by; Declaration of Independence on; environmental conditions for; interventions in environment by; pre-Columbian societies among; theft of land of

natural cycles

natural disasters; human reactions to

natural resources: under capitalism; freshwater as; local; worker and community control over

nature: cities and; definitions of; domination over; interdependence in; learning from

nature-deficit disorder

Navajo Generating Station

Neanderthals

Neira, María

Nelder, Chris

neoliberalilsm

neoprimitivists

Nesbitt, Prexy

New Orleans (Louisiana)

New Stone Age (Neolithic period)

New York (New York): Hurricane Sandy in; People’s Climate March in; wildlife in

Niagara Falls (New York)

nitrogen

nitrogen cycle

nitrous oxide (N2O)

Nixon, Richard M.

non-governmental organizations (NGOs)

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

North Carolina

Nottage, Lynn

Nowak, Martin

nuclear power

nuclear testing

nuclear weapons

nutrient cycles

Obama, Barack; on oil and gas production; oil production under; on violence among humans

Occupy Movement

oceans: carbon dioxide absorbed by; loss of biodiversity in; oxygen created by cyanobacteria in; phosphorus in; varied organisms in; warming of

oil, see petroleum

Olivera, Oscar

online shopping

organic matter cycle

organic wastes

Orszag, Peter

“the other”

overpopulation

Ovid

oxygen

ozone (O3)

Page, Benjamin

Pakistan

palm oil

Pandjaitan, Luhut B.

pants, worn by women

paper bags

Paris Climate Agreement (2015); Trump administration on

Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963)

Patnaik, Prabhat

Pauling, Linus

Pelosi, Nancy

People’s Climate March (2014)

Peres, Carlos

permafrost

pesticides

Peterson, Mike

petrochemical industry

petroleum (oil): oil rigs in Gulf of Mexico; pipelines for; production of; used in plastic production

pharmaceutical firms

Phillips, Joseph D.

Phillips, Wendell

phosphate and phosphorus

Pinochet, Augusto

pipelines

planning

plants: carbon dioxide in respiration of; cooperating among organisms in; defense mechanisms used by; domestication of; humans and; interactions with other organisms; in nitrogen cycle; nutrient cycles in; as source of energy; water needed by

plastics; future of

Pogo (character)

Polanyi, Karl

police, blacks killed by

pollution: profits from; regulation of

Pol Pot

polyculture (mixed cropping)

population

poverty; health and; hunger tied to; M.L. King on

Powell, Lewis

predator species

prisons

production

profits; from pollution

psychopaths

Puma (firm)

Quechua (people)

race: environment and; as political invention

racism; Black Lives Matter movement against

railroads

rainfall

rain forests; dispersal of seeds in; loss of biodiversity in; palm oil from

Ravensbergen, David

Reagan, Ronald

recycling; of plastics; reducing wastes through

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation Program (REDD)

reforestation

reform

regulations

renewable energy

repression

Republican Party

resilience; in ecosystems; in human communities

resistance

revolution; reform and; repression and

Rice, Tamir

Richards, Edward

Roberts, Alan

Roberts, Neil

Rome, ancient

rural communities; divide between cities and

Rwanda

Sahara Desert

sail technology

Sands, David

sanitation; sewers for

Saudi Arabia

Schilling, Robert

sciences, women in

Scott, Walter

sea birds

Seaford, Richard

sea turtles

secular stagnation

segregation

self-regulating systems

self-renewal

self-sufficiency

sewage

sewers

sexual violence

Shawcross, William

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Shinkansen bullet train

shipping; sail technology for

Shostak, Marjory

Siebert, Charles

Simms, Andrew

Singer, Daniel

Sitting Bull

slash-and-burn agriculture

slavery and slaves

Smith, Neil

Snowden, Edward

Snyder, Betty

social crisis

socialism; ecosocialism; see also ecosocialism

social metabolism

societies: diversity in; horticultural societies; hunter-gatherers; self-regulation in; urban

soil erosion

soils: carbon dioxide stored in; health of; healthy and resilient; nutrient cycles in; used in agriculture; water stored in

solar energy

Solnit, Rebecca

South Africa

Soviet Union

speculation (economic)

sperm whales

Standing Rock (South Dakota)

Standing Rock Sioux (people)

Steffen, Will

stereotypes

Sterling, Alton

Stiglitz, Joseph

storage industry

storms; runoff water from

suburbs

suicides

Summers, Larry

Supreme Court (U.S.): on regulation of coal plants; on Voting Rights Act

sustainability

Sweezy, Paul

Takata (firm)

Tansley, Arthur G.

taxes; carbon tax

technology: agricultural machinery; as human interaction with biosphere

termites

term limits

test performance

Thatcher, Margaret

Todd, John

tool use

tortoises

toxic waste sites

Toyko (Japan)

trains

Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)

transnational corporations

Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)

transportation; in future cities

trees; giant sequoia; in nutrient cycle

Trump, Donald; elected president; on greed; on international trade deals; racism of; on resilience; Women’s March on Washington against; women working under

Trump administration; on environmental regulation; petroleum pipelines under

Tsubuku, Masako

Tully, John

Turkey

Turner, Scott

turtles

Uces, Plein

unemployment

unions

United Kingdom: dress codes in; Enclosure Acts in; leaves European Union (Brexit)

United Nations (UN), Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation Program of

United States: economic growth in; energy consumption of; extreme storms in; gender of representatives in; history of slavery in; as imperial power; imperial wars of; income inequality in; as plutocracy; post-WWII boom in; poverty in

urban ecology

use value

Valeant Pharmaceuticals (firm)

Velcro

Venezuela; agricultural cooperatives in

Verma, Ragini

Vietnam

violence: racial; against women

Volkswagen (firm)

Voting Rights Act (1965)

vultures

Wade, Nicholas

Wallace, Cathy

Wallace, Henry

wars and warfare; economic role of governments during; human nature and

wastes: in capitalism economies; from fracking; human; plastics as; recycling of; reduction in; toxic waste sites

water: chemical treatment of; conservation of; contaminated; eutrophication of; in hydrologic cycle; privatization of; solar heating of; storm runoff water

water pollution

Waters, Colin

Watson, James

wealth, human nature and

Welter, Barbara

Wescoff, Marlyn

Wessels, Tom

wetlands

whales

whites

wild animals

wildlife, in cities

Williams, David R.

Wilson, E. O.

wind energy

wolves

women; in agricultural societies; among hunter-gatherers; biological determinism and; capitalist oppression of; in Iroquois Confederacy; sciences and

Women’s March on Washington

work; gender wage gap in

workers: capitalism’s effects on; control over workplaces and resources by; rotating responsibilities among

Working Group on the Anthropocene

workplaces: chemical contamination at; future of; occupational hazards in; rotating responsibilities within; worker and community control of

World Health Organization (WHO)

World War I

World War II

Wrangham, Richard

Yemen

Yoffee, Norman

Yong, Ed

Zapatista movement (Mexico)

Zheng Zhe

Zimbabwe