John Bellamy Foster, Ph.D., 1985, York University, Toronto, is Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon and editor of Monthly Review (New York). He is author of Marx’s Ecology (Monthly Review Press, 2000).Paul Burkett, Ph.D., 1984, Syracuse University, is Professor of Economics at Indiana State University, Terre Haute. He is the author of Marx and Nature (Palgrave, 1999) and Marxism and Ecological Economics (Brill, 2006).

"Marxist analyses of the natural world have been the focus of intense debate recently, and the publication of any book that further explores what Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels thought about the subject is something to be welcomed. John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett have proven track records of writing some of the clearest books on the subject, and while Marx and the Earth is not a specific response to some of their recent critics, it is an important defence of Marx's and Engel's orginal work." - Martin Empson, in : International Socialism, January 2017

• Preface IntroductionChapter 1 The Dialectic of Organic and Inorganic RelationsChapter 2 The Origins of Ecological Economics: Podolinsky and Marx-EngelsChapter 3 Classical Marxism and EnergeticsChapter 4 Engels, Entropy, and the Heat Death HypothesisChapter 5 The Reproduction of Economy and SocietyConclusion: Marx and Metabolic RestorationAppendix I: Sergei Podolinsky, ‘Socialism and the Unity of Physical Forces’ (Translated from the Italian) Appendix IISergei Podolinsky, ‘Human Labour and Unity of Force’ (Translated from the German) BibliographyIndex