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It's become a truism on the left that we are facing a twin crisis of capitalism and the environment. But what is the nature of those crises or -- as historian and political economist Jason W. Moore sees it -- crisis? What does the long view, historically speaking, tell us about the crisis today? And what are the implications for the Left of seeing the social-economic and the ecological as constitutive of each other?