Much like the current crisis, the Depression wasn’t an event isolated to the world of finance. In fact, it was magnified by, and in turn magnified the impacts of, a corresponding ecological crisis. Much like we face today.

This resource provides a brief overview of the vision of the social tradition in light of the warning signs and impacts of global climate change. 

Biofuels, or fuels derived from plants, have been making headlines recently for their role in the world food crisis. Touted as a new clean fuel that will help solve the climate crisis, activists have long warned about the poverty and justice implications. Nonetheless, while the conversion of basic food crops into fuel for vehicles in wealthy countries seems a particularly cruel incarnation of the growing divide between the haves and have-nots of the world, it is also only a symptom of a broken economic order that prioritizes profits over human subsistence.