Table of Contents

Catastrophe Alert!

What Is to Be Done Against the
Willful Destruction
of the Unity of Humanity and Nature?

Preface

I.    On the Fundamental Unity of Humanity and Nature

       1. Dialectics of Nature            

       2. The Biosphere – Foundation of Human Life

       3. Philosophical Struggle over the Fundamental Unity of Humanity and Nature

       4. Marx’s and Engels’ Fundamental Critique of the Gotha Program        

       5. Generally Low Regard for the Environmental Issue in the Working-Class Movement

II.  Capitalism and Environmental Destruction  

       1. Undermining of the Natural Foundations of Life and Ruining of Labor Power

       2. The Environmental Crisis as Accompanying Manifestation of Imperialism      

       3. The Environmental Crisis as Law-Governed Manifestation   

III.  The Threatening Global Environmental Catastrophe            

A.    Main Features of the Transformation into a Global Environmental Catastrophe       

        A.1. Destruction of the Ozone Layer

        A.2. Accelerated Destruction of Forests          

        A.3. Looming World Climate Catastrophe       

        A.4. Conspicuous Increase in Regional Environmental Disasters             

B.    New Phase of the Transformation of the Environmental Crisis into a Global Environmental Catastrophe 

        B.5. Imminent Danger of Collapse of the World’s Ocean Systems          

        B.6. Destruction of Regional Ecosystems and Extinction of Species      

        B.7. Ruthless Overexploitation of Natural Materials   

        B.8. Waste Proliferation, Poisoning and Pollution          

        B.9. Irresponsible Use of Nuclear Energy     

C.    Further Factors Hastening the Transformation into a Global Environmental Catastrophe    

        C.10. Destructive Mining Methods in the Production of Fossil Raw Materials    

        C.11. Lack of Clean Freshwater          

        C.12. Overexploitation of Labor Power and Destruction of the Natural Foundations of Life         

IV.  Class Struggle and Struggle to Save the Natural Environment           

        1. Imperialist Environmentalism and Imperialist Environmental Policy  

        2. Petty-Bourgeois Environmental Movement and Petty-Bourgeois Environmentalism 

        3. International, Anti-Imperialist Character in the Struggle to Save the Natural Environment          

        4. A New Quality of the Environmental Movement      

        5. Environmental Policies in Socialism and Reversal in Bureaucratic Capitalism

        6. The Solution of the Environmental Question in Socialism/Communism          

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