The Ecological Crisis is an Economic Crisis; the Economic Crisis
is an Ecological Crisis  ( How Capitalism has created an
Ecological, Energy, and Economic Crisis —- The post-WWII boom
was based on cheap oil. But oil is nonrenewable, polluting, and
causes global warming. It was “cheap” because the capitalists
did not pay to prepare for the day when it would be harder to
access oil. We have reached that day, which is one aspect of the
worldwide crisis of the return to the epoch of capitalist decay.
—- As I write this, the United States is suffering its worst
ecological disaster since the Dust Bowl. Petroleum oil is
gushing out of the ocean floor at BP’s drill site in the Gulf of
Mexico. For it to be gotten under control may still take months,
if it can be done at all. In any case, cleaning up the
ecological and economic destruction in the region will take
decades; some of the effects are irreparable.  There could be no
greater illustration that the worldwide crises in ecology, in
energy, and in the economy are