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Record Nr.

UNINA9910478871803321

Autore

Foster John Bellamy

Titolo

The ecological rift : capitalism's war on the earth / / by John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, and Richard York

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Monthly Review Press, c2010

ISBN

1-58367-388-1

1-58367-389-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (545 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ClarkBrett

YorkRichard <1971->

Disciplina

333.7

363.7

Soggetti

Capitalism

Environmental degradation

Climatic changes

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: A Rift in Earth and Time; PART ONE: Capitalism and Unsustainable Development; 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; PART TWO: Ecological Paradoxes; 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; PART THREE: Dialectical Ecology

11. The Dialectics of Nature and Marxist Ecology12. Dialectical Materialism and Nature; 13. Marx's Grundrisse and the Ecology of Capitalism; 14. The Sociology of Ecology; 15. Imperialism and Ecological Metabolism; PART FOUR: Ways Out; 16. The Ecology of Consumption; 17. The Metabolism of Twenty-First Century Socialism; 18. Why Ecological Revolution?; NOTES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

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 have been driven through the delicate fabric of the biosphere. The economy and the earth are headed for a fateful collision-if we don't alter course. In The Ecological Rift: Capitalism's War on the Earth environmental sociologists John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, and Richard York offer a radical as