Preface 9
Introduction 13
I The Planetary Rift 39
1. Marx and the Rift in the Universal Metabolism of Nature 41
2. The Great Capitalist Climacteric 62
3. The Anthropocene Crisis 82
4. Crossing the River of Fire 91
5. The Fossil Fuels War 111
6. Making War on the Planet 126
II Ecology as Critique 139
7. Nature 141
8. Third Nature 148
9. Weber and the Environment 153
10. The Theory of Unequal Ecological Exchange 201
11. Marxism in the Anthropocene 245
12. Marxism and the Dialectics of Ecology 277
13. Engels's Dialectics of Nature in the Anthropocene 296
14. Late Soviet Ecology 316
15. The Return of Nature and Marx's Ecology 338
III The Future of History 361
16. Capitalism and Degrowth: An Impossibility Theorem 363
17. The Ecology of Marxian Political Economy 373
18. On Fire This Time 390
19. COVID-19 and Catastrophe Capitalism 411
20. Ecological Catastrophe or Ecological Civilization 433
21. The Capitalinian: The First Geological Age of the Anthropocene 457
22. Conclusion: Ecology and the Future of History 475
Notes 493
Name Index 633
Subject Index 655