The development of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) has opened up whole new possibilities for improving the nutrition of humanity. However, under capitalism, GMOs are being abused by large agro-corporations to maximize shareholders’ profits at the expense of ordinary people around the world.  What is a working-class approach to confronting the problems of GMOs and food security?

Capitalism is damaging the very planet we live on. But those affected most by climate change are not those who cause it. The working class and poor across the world once again are forced to pay for the crises that capitalism causes. Rob Dransfield of the Edinburgh Marxists discusses the impacts of capitalism on the environment and the lives of those effected by these changes.

Adam Booth, writer for www.socialist.net, talks about the environmental crisis and its relationship to capitalism, analysing the question from a Marxist perspective. Adam discusses issues such as carbon trading, green economic stimulus, and the role of individual actions in averting climate change, and in contrast presents a socialist solution to the environmental and ecological problems facing society and the planet.