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



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Autore: Foster John Bellamy Visualizza persona
Titolo: The ecological rift : capitalism's war on the earth / / by John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, and Richard York Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Monthly Review Press, c2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (545 p.)
Disciplina: 333.7
363.7
Soggetto topico: Capitalism
Environmental degradation
Climatic changes
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Altri autori: ClarkBrett  
YorkRichard <1971->  
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
Titolo autorizzato: The ecological rift  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-58367-388-1
1-58367-389-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910478871803321
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