![The march toward impeachment, wildfires in California, and Marx’s “metabolic rift”](https://cpusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/THISWEEK1-1-copy.png)
A constitutional crisis looms as a majority now support impeachment as Trump rejects all oversight: where will it all end? Meanwhile fires burn in California while millions go without electricity with climate change as the culprit. Can these problems be addressed within a capitalist framework? Anita Waters offers Marx’s theory of the “metabolic rift” positing capitalism’s inherent separation of humanity and nature.