The Book
Sick
Planet was published in spring 2008 by London's Pluto Press
and is being distributed in the US through the University
of Michigan Press. If you judge a book by its cover and if,
instead of making you feel at one with nature, this cover makes you
feel a bit queasy, that's intentional -- and the book will have the
same effect. But this isn't just another effort to convince you
that we're in ecological trouble, because you already know that. Sick Planet tells nine stories in
which the global capitalist economy turns the well-intentioned efforts
of humanity inside-out. By the tenth chapter, it will be clear
that
neither organic chicken soup nor full medical coverage
can cure what ails this planet.
Read more
about what's inside Sick Planet
"Cox’s
revelatory book is a Silent Spring for the 21st century."
Some of Stan Cox's recent writing
Handcuff
the Property Cops
August, 2008: Atlanta
Journal-Constitution, Baltimore Sun, Kansas City Star, Des Moines
Register, Hartford Courant,
Biloxi Sun-Herald
Here
comes the Post-SUV World!
July 10, 2008: AlterNet, Pacific Sun (Calif.), Energy
Bulletin, ColdType
and the op-ed
version
July 27, 2008: Hartford
Courant
It Will Take a Lot
More Than Gardening...Part 1
May-June 2008: CounterPunch, Common Dreams, AlterNet,
Energy
Bulletin
Part 2: Fixing a Broken
Agriculture
July 12, 2008: CounterPunch
Part 3:
Ending
the 10,000-Year Conflict Between Agriculture and Nature
June 2008: Science in Society
Chickens of
Mass Destruction?
May 15, 2008: Valley Advocate (Mass.), CounterPunch
Thirsty Cars Run Over
Hungry People
May 9, 2008: AlterNet, Illinois Times,
ZNet, Petroleumworld (Venezuela)
Green as a
Blackjack Table
Earth Day, 2008: CounterPunch, AlterNet, Weekender (Johannesburg)
The Germs Next Door
March 26, 2008: CounterPunch, AlterNet, the Manhattan
Mercury (op-ed)
Turning Water into
Ethanol: No Miracle
March 22, 2008: AlterNet, Albany NY Metroland, Illinois Times, OpEdNews
March
11, 2008: Providence Journal,
Vail Daily, Tracy (Calif.) Daily News, Pierre (SD) Capital Journal, Sandusky Register, Great Falls (Mont.) Tribune, CommonDreams.org
Antimicrobial
Backfire
February 2, 2008: Alternet, Open Skies (Emirates Airlines), Chronogram Health Living (NY),
Valley Advocate (Mass.)
A Depressing
Report on Antidepressants
January, 2008: CounterPunch
Don't
Take That
Pill!
January 12, 2008: Boise Weekly, CounterPunch
Dress
for Excess
December 1, 2007: AlterNet
On
the Inside with the
Outer-Space Warriors
November 2007: Fort Worth Weekly,
AlterNet, ColdType (PDF)
Carbon-Free
and Still Wrecking the Planet
September 20, 2007: Synthesis/Regeneration, CounterPunch
Big Houses:
Indigestible Leftovers of the
Housing Bubble
September 8, 2007: AlterNet, Hartford Courant, Columbia (SC) Free Times
New
Report Finds
Record-Breaking Pollution By Export Drugmakers in India
August 27, 2007: AlterNet, CorpWatch
April 26,
2007:
AlterNet, Albany, NY Metroland
The
Toughest, Slickest Molecules on the Planet
January 2, 2007: AlterNet
Under
the Brown Cloud: Money vs. the Monsoon
January 3, 2007: CounterPunch
How
Much is That
Dog Jacuzzi in the Window?
November
22, 2006: AlterNet
Air-Conditioned Nation
Part 1: Hot Flash!
June 22, 2006: AlterNet, Illinois Times, Tampa Creative Loafing
Part 2: Attack of the fríoconservatives
June 29, 2006: AlterNet
Op-ed: Cooling the mall, heating the planet
July, 2006: Denver Post, Providence
Journal, Fort Worth
Star-Telegram, Contra-Costa Times,
Riverside Press-Enterprise, Anniston Star, Ames
Tribune, Fayetteville
(NC) Observer, Amarillo
Globe News,
Salina
Journal
Response?
Write to stan@sickplanetbook.com
Stan Cox
is a plant breeder and writer living
in Salina, Kansas
"A radical treatment proposal, to be sure, but the diagnosis is sobering."
-- The Guardian
"At the cusp of total ecological collapse, we stand in need of a corrective dose of 'radical' economics if we're to turn our ship around. Cox's Sick Planet will be useful reading for anyone who seeks to grab the ship's wheel and to persuade others to join them. His book is a short, readable activist's crib which ranges fluently across the environmental costs of bloated corporate healthcare (and the human costs of overprescription and phoney medicalization), to the problem of industrial agriculture and "better living through chemistry."
— Sam Urquhart, GNN.TV
“Stan Cox, scientifically accomplished and politically astute, casts a sharp eye on the deadly affliction that threatens our planet, and identifies the penetration of capital into all aspects of life as the pathogen. Cox convincingly shows that only a radical attack on the roots of this disease can reverse the slide of our civilization into oblivion.”
— Joel Kovel, author of The Enemy of Nature