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Presents the text of a telephone interview conducted Jan 2004 in which Foster contemplates reasons for the failure of global environmental reform. It is argued that the optimism generated by the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Genero, Brazil, was misplaced, as environmental groups had largely failed to consider the vast powers of the capitalist economic system & its role in environmental degradation. The expansion of neoliberal trade & patterns of investment decision making by organizations such as the World Trade Organization, International Monetary Fund, & the World Bank demonstrate that their primary interest is economic growth, no matter what the social or environmental costs. Ways that environmental groups must reframe their message & devise new strategies to combat these environmentally harmful forces are suggested & directions toward the development of "ecological morality" are outlined. K. Hyatt Stewart

In an interview with Alejandro Pedregal, John Bellamy Foster tells us about the paths great ecosocialist thinkers traveled, the most prominent debates in current Marxist ecological thought, and the urgent need for a project that transcends the conditions that threaten the existence of our planet today.