Explores ecological socialisms potential against capitalist environmental degradation Today the fate of the earth as a home for humanity is in questionand yet contends John Bellamy Foster the reunification of humanity and the earth remains possible if we are prepared to make revolutionary changes. As with his prior books The Dialectics of Ecology is grounded in the contention that we are now faced with a concrete choice between ecological socialism and capitalist exterminism and rooted in insights drawn from the classical historical materialist tradition. In this latest work Foster explores the complex theoretical debates that have arisen historically with respect to the dialectics of nature and society.