When the University of Pennsylvania closed its campus last March, Brandon Orzolek realized COVID-19 was becoming a serious issue. And he knew his vaping habit put him at greater risk of serious illness from the virus. “People are dying, and there’s no way that inhaling some foreign substance into your lungs could be a good thing if you get a respiratory virus,” said Orzolek, a 24-year-old .
New beech leaves, Gribskov Forest in the northern part of Sealand, Denmark. Malene Thyssen, Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link.
John Bellamy Foster is the editor of
Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Brett Clark is associate editor of
Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Utah. Hannah Holleman is a director of the Monthly Review Foundation and an associate professor of sociology at Amherst College.
“The old Greek philosophers,” Frederick Engels wrote in
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, “were all born natural dialecticians.”
1 Nowhere was this more apparent than in ancient Greek medical thought, which was distinguished by its strong materialist and ecological basis. This dialectical, materialist, and ecological approach to epidemiology (from the ancient Greek