In this book, John Bellamy Foster tackles a range of critical issues such as global warming, the loss of biodiversity, deforestation, and issues like toxic waste, unsustainable development, the failure of technological solutions to address ecological problems, desertification, new health risks, and the question of excessive global population growth.

According to the author, the expansive spirit of capitalism is responsible for this environmental degradation. The transformation of land and its resources, as well as human needs and labor itself, into commodities and the logic of continuous economic growth are the causes of today's ecological problems.

The solution will be found when we use the land with love and respect, as a community to which we belong. A central issue is the change of the existing socio-economic structure and the connection of ecological problems with issues of economic and social justice.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]