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 assessment of both the problem and the
solution. They argue that the source of our ecological crisis lies
in the paradox of wealth in capitalist society, which expands
individual riches at the expense of public wealth, including the
wealth of nature. In the process, a huge ecological rift is driven
between human beings and nature, undermining the conditions of
sustainable existence: a rift in the metabolic relation between
humanity and nature that is irreparable within capitalist society,
since integral to its very laws of motion.
Critically examining the sanguine arguments of mainstream
economists and technologists, Foster, Clark, and York insist
instead that fundamental changes in social relations must occur if
the ecological (and social) problems presently facing us are to be
transcended. Their analysis relies on the development of a deep
dialectical naturalism concerned with issues of ecology and
evolution and their interaction with the economy. Importantly, they
offer reasons for revolutionary hope in moving beyond the regime of
capital and toward a society of sustainable human development.
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