A year-ago this month (July 10, 1976 to be exact), an explosion at the Icmesa chemical plant in Seveso, Italy garnered worldwide attention as the release of 4.4 pounds of deadly tetrachlorodibenzodioxin, or TCDD, contaminated the town and forced the …
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Space Not The Place
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 322, Winter-Spring, 1986
“With the aid of the high-powered rocket modern man is indeed conquering space. But in the very act of making this achievement possible, the megamachine is carrying further its conquest of man…At the bottom of this whole effort lies a …
Biotech: The Next Wave
by Tomas MacSheoin
Fifth Estate # 320, Spring, 1985
Related: see the introductory essay “In the Image of Capital: the rise of biotechnology,” FE #320, Spring, 1985 We are entering the newest phase in the technologization of the world. As microelectronics continues to encroach everywhere, capital is preparing the …
We All Live in Bhopal
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 319, Winter, 1985
[Web archive note: The original print edition of this article did not list an author. The article was reprinted in David Watson’s Against the Megamachine (Autonomedia, 1998).] // Share this on…
Nuclear Plants: Potential Disasters
by Bob Nirkind
Fifth Estate # 297, April 18, 1979
Reprinted from FE #278, November 1976. // Share this on…
Resistance to the Plan is Heavy
by Charles Willis
Fifth Estate # 323, Summer, 1986
In March of this year a small article appeared in the Detroit Free Press announcing the last public hearing before the City of Detroit was to begin building the world’s largest trash-to-energy waste-incinerator plant. For those of us who live …
Whales
by Bob Nirkind
Fifth Estate # 284, July, 1977
The point is that man is literally undoing the work of organic evolution. By creating vast urban agglomerations of concrete, metal and glass, by overriding and undermining the complex, often subtly organized ecosystems that constitute local differences in the natural …
Nuclear Plants: Potential Disasters
by Bob Nirkind
Fifth Estate # 278, November, 1976
This article is the third in an originally-planned two-part series on the perils of radioactive waste materials and highly toxic chemicals. Part One of the series (Capitalism’s Industrial Plagues, # 276, September 1976) dealt with the devastating results of nuclear …
Italian Chemical Disaster
by R.F.
Fifth Estate # 277, October 1976
Since the July 10th explosion at an Italian Chemical plant outside of the northern Italian city of Seveso, information has come to light to indicate that Michigan could be the setting for a similar disaster. // Share this on…