Noxious Deindustrialisation: Connecting Precarity and the Ecological Crisis

The industry often presents the relation between job precarity and environmental degradation as a zero-sum game: if something is to be gained in terms of good jobs, something must be lost on the the side of health and environment. Here, Lorenzo Feltrin argues that employment precarisation and environmental degradation are far from incompatible, they both result from the capitalist imperative to economise while producing evermore commodities.