If we were to ask what is the root cause of our current and
unprecedented environmental crisis, climate change, many,
particularly on the progressive Left, would refer to the excesses
of capitalism-and they'd be right. In Eco-Nihilism: The
Philosophical Geopolitics of the Climate Change Apocalypse, Wendy
Lynne Lee demonstrates that there are no versions of conquest
capital compatible with the fact of a finite planet and that a
logic whose operating premise is growth is destined to not only
exhaust our planetary resources, but also generate profound social
injustice and geopolitical violence in its pursuit. Nonetheless, it
is clear that the violence and injustice of capital is
selective-some benefit greatly while others are subjugated to its
pathological drive to profit. Hence, Lee argues that any
comprehensive analysis of what Jason Moore has dubbed the
Capitalocene must include an equally probing account of human
chauvinism, that is, the axes along which capital is supplied with
resources and labor. Defined in terms of race, sex, gender, and
species, these axes come ready-made to the advantage of capitalist
commodification. Without an understanding of how and why, humanity
will remain doomed to settling for a sustainably unjust world as
opposed to realizing a just and desirable one. Indeed, on our
current trajectory, we may not even achieve the sustainable. The
introduction of climate change into the mix of environmental
deterioration, the ever-widening economic gap between global North
and global South, and the accelerating violence of terrorism, civil
war, and human slavery make of a warming planet a combustible
world. The only way out requires ending the myth of endless
resources, a rejection of climate change denial, and a radical
re-valuation of human-centeredness, not as a locus of power, but as
an opportunity to take moral and epistemic responsibility for a
world whose biotic diversity and ecological integrity make the
struggle to realize it worthwhile. This solution demands not only
an end to capitalism, but the deliberate reclamation of
value-aesthetic, moral, and civic-and a radical transformation of
both personal and collective conscience. Lee appeals to the
experiential aesthetics of John Dewey and the feminist concept of
the standpoint of the subjugated. She argues for a version of the
precautionary principle informed by an environmentally and socially
responsible concept of the desirable future as the clearest path
away from the precipice.
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