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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
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, 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
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
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
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
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