The ecological rift : capitalism's war on the earth /
Humanity in the twenty-first century is facing what might be described as its ultimate environmental catastrophe: the destruction of the climate that has nurtured human civilization and with it the basis of life on earth as we know it. All ecosystems on the planet are now in decline. Enormous rifts...
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Monthly Review Press,
[2010], ©2010
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The paradox of wealth
- 2. Rifts and shifts
- 3. Capitalism in wonderland
- 4. The Midas effect
- 5. Carbon metabolism and global capital accumulation
- 6. The planetary moment of truth
- 7. The return of the Jevons paradox
- 8. The paperless office and other ecological paradoxes
- 9. The treadmill of accumulation
- 10. The absolute general law of environmental degradation under capitalism
- 11. The dialectics of nature and Marxist ecology
- 12. Dialectical materialism and nature
- 13. Marx's Grundrisse and the ecology of capitalism
- 14. The sociology of ecology
- 15. Imperialism and ecological metabolism
- 16. The ecology of consumption
- 17. The metabolism of twenty-first century socialism
- 18. Why ecological revolution?
- Preface
- Introduction: A rift in earth and time
- Part 1: Capitalism and unsustainable development. The paradox of wealth ; Rifts and shifts ; Capitalism in wonderland ; The Midas effect ; Carbon metabolism and global capital accumulation ; The planetary moment of truth
- Part 2: Ecological paradoxes. The return of the Jevons paradox ; The paperless office and other ecological paradoxes ; The treadmill of accumulation ; The absolute general law of environmental degradation under capitalism
- Part 3: Dialectical ecology. The dialectics of nature and Marxist ecology ; Dialectical materialism and nature ; Marx's Grundrisse and the ecology of capitalism ; The sociology of ecology ; Imperialism and ecological metabolism
- Part 4: Ways out. The ecology of consumption ; The metabolism of twenty-first century socialism ; Why ecological revolution?