Capitalism in the Anthropocene: Ecological Ruin or Ecological Revolution Foster John Bellamy
Capitalism in the Anthropocene: Ecological Ruin or Ecological Revolution Foster John Bellamy Explores capitalism's role in creating the current state of climate emergencyOver the last 11,700 years,…
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Capitalism in the Anthropocene: Ecological Ruin or Ecological Revolution Foster John Bellamy
Explores capitalism's role in creating the current state of climate emergencyOver the last 11,700 years, during which human civilization developed, the earth has existed within what geologists refer to as the Holocene Epoch. The Anthropocene Epoch is characterized by an "anthropogenic rift" in the biological cycles of the Earth System, marking a changed reality in which human activities are now the main geological force impacting the earth as a whole, generating at the same time an existential crisis for the world's population.What caused this massive shift in the history of the earth? Now science is telling us that the Holocene Epoch in the geological time scale ended, replaced by a new more dangerous Anthropocene Epoch, which began around 1950.
In this comprehensive study, John Bellamy Foster tells us that a globalized system of capital accumulation has induced