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The Ecological Crisis and the Logic of Capital

Authors :
Xueming Chen
Lihuan Wu
Baixiang Liu
Xueming Chen
Lihuan Wu
Baixiang Liu
Publication Year :
2017

Abstract

The worsening environmental crisis has become a serious threat to mankind. The search for a solution to this crisis must begin by understanding its causes. Taking an eco-socialist perspective, The Ecological Crisis and the Logic of Capital explores the logic of capitalism as a fundamental cause of today's environmental crisis, in particular the thirst for profit and the capitalist mode of production. By demonstrating the inherent antagonism between capital and ecology, this book argues that proposals to resolve the crisis within the capitalist system are utopian, that proposed remedies relying on scientific progress, alternative energies, low-carbon technologies or the introduction of ecological ethics and new attitudes toward Nature into market mechanisms are doomed to failure without a radical overhaul of the principles that govern capitalism.

Details

Language :
English
ISBNs :
9789004355965 and 9789004356009
Volume :
00012
Database :
eBook Index
Journal :
The Ecological Crisis and the Logic of Capital
Publication Type :
eBook
Accession number :
1591741