Welcome
Great friends and a wonderful family have encouraged me to publish my ideas and helped me build this website. We designed it to become a forum for developing awareness, discussion, and dialog about catabolic capitalism and the growing resistance to this impending future. Building a Green transition away from this perilous dead end depends on our ability to anticipate the dangers that lie ahead and seize every opportunity to avoid and resist them.
Craig Collins Ph.D, Lecturer — Department of Political Science CAL STATE East Bay
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We encourage visitors to this website to read the articles we’ve posted, share them with others, alert us to other useful sources on catabolic capitalism and green resistance, and share their thoughts with us.
We are interested in highlighting articles, websites, and blogs that help people understand what catabolic capitalism looks like—the way it is beginning to manifest itself today and the growing dangers it presents for the future. We also wish to encourage the global grassroots mutiny against those driving humanity down this suicidal path. We encourage readers to alert us to resources that will improve all our efforts to “fight the power.” My forthcoming books: Being Human: The Rise and Fall of Earth's Most Invasive Species -and- Rising From the Ruins: Catabolic Capitalism & Green Resistance reformulate Marx’s theory of history & social change and examine the emerging struggle to replace catabolic capitalism with a thriving, just, ecologically resilient society. |
Craig Collins Bio
In 1973, I dropped out of the political science and journalism programs at Sacramento State College to become an organizer with Cesar Chavez’s United Farmworkers’ Union. I wrote for the union’s newspaper, El Malcriado, and researched policy alternatives for the UFW’s position on illegal immigration. To study Spanish more intensively, I moved to Mexico, spent nearly a year in Cuba, and traveled around Central America. After writing freelance articles on Cuba’s education system, its deepening dependence upon the USSR, and the guerilla insurgencies in Central America I returned to the Bay Area to re-enter academia.
My wife Barbara and I raised our daughter Kyla, while I earned a Ph.D. at UC Davis and she taught grade school. My dissertation analyzed international efforts to negotiate agreements to protect the ozone layer and arrest climate disruption.
Over the last 25 years, I’ve enjoyed teaching thousands of students environmental politics and law; contemporary political thought; Latin American and US politics; Marxism; and international political economy at Sonoma State, UC Davis, Saint Mary’s, and Cal State East Bay. And, in 2005 and 2006, I had the great pleasure of teaching many of these courses aboard ship for both the global and Caribbean basin tours of the University of Pittsburgh's Semester at Sea program.
I’ve tried to remain politically active on campus and as a founding member of the Green Party of California and a staff writer for their paper, Green Consensus. In 2010, Cambridge University Press published my book, Toxic Loopholes, which examines America’s dysfunctional system of environmental protection and the international system’s failure to confront climate chaos.
Over the years, my articles have appeared online in Mother Jones, AMBIO, TruthOut, CounterPunch, Resilience, Political Animal, Uneven Earth, and Organizing UpGrade.
My wife Barbara and I raised our daughter Kyla, while I earned a Ph.D. at UC Davis and she taught grade school. My dissertation analyzed international efforts to negotiate agreements to protect the ozone layer and arrest climate disruption.
Over the last 25 years, I’ve enjoyed teaching thousands of students environmental politics and law; contemporary political thought; Latin American and US politics; Marxism; and international political economy at Sonoma State, UC Davis, Saint Mary’s, and Cal State East Bay. And, in 2005 and 2006, I had the great pleasure of teaching many of these courses aboard ship for both the global and Caribbean basin tours of the University of Pittsburgh's Semester at Sea program.
I’ve tried to remain politically active on campus and as a founding member of the Green Party of California and a staff writer for their paper, Green Consensus. In 2010, Cambridge University Press published my book, Toxic Loopholes, which examines America’s dysfunctional system of environmental protection and the international system’s failure to confront climate chaos.
Over the years, my articles have appeared online in Mother Jones, AMBIO, TruthOut, CounterPunch, Resilience, Political Animal, Uneven Earth, and Organizing UpGrade.