Archive for December, 2025

The environmental crisis is driven by class interest

Thursday, December 18th, 2025

Below is a link to an article by Argentine political economist Rubén Lo Vuolo on the environmental crisis in Argentina. He forcefully links the crisis with class interest. In my view, that is how it must be situated and analyzed, and that is the only way we will succeed in reining it in. Unfortunately, that framing of the crisis is insufficiently articulated in much heterodox analysis, especially of the Post Keynesian variety.

Latin America is one of the regions most affected by extreme weather events, registers the highest number of crimes against planetary health defenders, and uses collective natural resources for the benefit of affluent minorities. The Argentine government is a promoter and accomplice of these demonstrably harmful actions.

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