LEADER 03381nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910478871803321 005 20220126180816.0 010 $a1-58367-388-1 010 $a1-58367-389-X 035 $a(CKB)2670000000316792 035 $a(EBL)1107508 035 $a(OCoLC)823719743 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000803537 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12343490 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000803537 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10810381 035 $a(PQKB)11230338 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1107508 035 $a(PPN)183758617 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000316792 100 $a20100830d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe ecological rift $ecapitalism's war on the earth /$fby John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, and Richard York 210 $aNew York $cMonthly Review Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (545 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-58367-218-4 311 $a1-58367-219-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $a11. 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 330 $aHumanity 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 606 $aCapitalism 606 $aEnvironmental degradation 606 $aClimatic changes 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCapitalism. 615 0$aEnvironmental degradation. 615 0$aClimatic changes. 676 $a333.7 676 $a363.7 700 $aFoster$b John Bellamy$089531 701 $aClark$b Brett$0978078 701 $aYork$b Richard$f1971-$0908277 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910478871803321 996 $aThe ecological rift$92228125 997 $aUNINA