Ecology Against Capitalism

Foster, John Bellamy

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“…Like human ecologists, social metabolic scholars incorporate the operation of natural cycles and systems into their analysis in order to better assess the interpenetration and exchanges between society and its biophysical bases. They indicate that capitalism's social metabolism exceeds natural limits, producing "metabolic rifts" in various cycles and processes, which are necessary for ecosystem maintenance and regeneration [57,58,[95][96][97]. Metabolic theorists specify that capitalist social relations tend to generate ecological rifts in specific ecological cycles through the intensification of the social metabolism.…”

Section: Towards An Integrated Socio-ecological Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These two approaches are very important, yet they do not adequately address the general and specific characteristics of the socio-economic system, especially its inner driving force. Thus, sustainability science must better integrate critical political-economic insights, which environmental sociology can offer, such as the dynamics associated with the growth imperative of capital, the social and ecological contradictions that arise from commodity production systems, technological innovation and the Jevons paradox, power and inequality, and the institutional conditions that produce social tendencies toward particular ecological outcomes [96,103]. We contend that further incorporation of environmental sociological approaches, such as human ecology, treadmill of production, and social metabolism, will advance sustainability science toward an improved analysis of coupled human and natural systems.…”

Section: Towards An Integrated Socio-ecological Approachmentioning

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Sustainability and Environmental Sociology: Putting the Economy in its Place and Moving Toward an Integrative Socio-Ecology

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Abstract:The vague, yet undoubtedly desirable, notion of sustainability has been discussed and debated by many natural and social scientists. We argue that mainstream conceptions of sustainability, and the related concept of sustainable development, are mired in a "pre-analytic vision" that naturalizes capitalist social relations, closes off important questions regarding economic growth, and thus limits the potential for an integrative socio-ecological analysis. Theoretical and empirical research within environmental sociology provides key insights to overcome the aforementioned problems, whereby the social, historical, and environmental relationships associated with the tendencies and qualities of the dominant economic system are analyzed. We highlight how several environmental sociology perspectives-such as human ecology, the treadmill of production, and metabolic analysis-can serve as the basis for a more integrative socio-ecological conception and can help advance the field of sustainability science.

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Section: Towards An Integrated Socio-ecological Approachmentioning

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Sustainability and Environmental Sociology: Putting the Economy in its Place and Moving Toward an Integrative Socio-Ecology

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“…The first sits within the framework of ecological modernization and emphasizes reformist change with green jobs, social protection, retraining and consultation and a preoccupation to protect the interests of the most vulnerable workers. Writers such as Foster (2002), however, argue that such an approach does little to challenge the capitalist economic mode of production. An alternative position views the climate crisis as a catalysing force for transformative change towards socialism.…”

Section: Confronting the Ecological Crisis: New Alliances Forms Of Pmentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond the nature–labour divide: trade union responses to climate change in South Africa

2018

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We present the life histories of two environmentally engaged unionists in South Africa, who were decisive for formulating the environmental programmes of their respective trade unions. Their experiences of participating in the resistance against apartheid in universities and factories taught them the necessity to connect different struggles and equipped them with the knowledge and ability to connect the fight for workers' rights with the fight against environmental degradation. Both activists experienced the difficulty of integrating 'the environment' politically and practically into a trade union agenda. The labour movement has traditionally experienced nature as a place outside of work to be enjoyed for recreation. While nature constitutes an indispensable condition for labour, it has been privately appropriated by Capital. For environmental policies to form an integral part of union agendas, nature needs to be wrestled away from its appropriation by Capital and understood as an inseparable ally of labour.

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“…O raciocínio de substituição nesse caso está relacionado às atividades que compõe o PIB. Assim, uma dimensão do erro inerente a esse tipo de exercício é tratar todas as partes do PIB como substitutas (Daly, 2000;Foster, 2002). Perde-se de vista o caráter primário da produção agropecuária.…”

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A economia ecológica e evolucionária de Georgescu-Roegen

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2010

Brazil. J. Polit. Econ.

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The ecological and evolutionary economics of Georgescu-Roegen. The main argument of this paper is that Georgescu-Roegen's contributions represent a major disruption with economics' pre-analytic vision. He rejected at the same time both the closed and circular view of the economy and the mechanic analogies that oriented economics in the past century. Even though his influence has been felt mainly in the field of ecological economics, his epistemological contributions represent a major challenge to equilibrium thinking. Nowadays, treating economic systems as complex and evolutionary systems is becoming not only acceptable, but also a trend in the way political economy is made. We defend that Georgescu-Roegen's disruption represents a scientific revolution in economics, in the sense attributed by Kuhn.

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Ecology Against Capitalism

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Sustainability and Environmental Sociology: Putting the Economy in its Place and Moving Toward an Integrative Socio-Ecology

Sustainability and Environmental Sociology: Putting the Economy in its Place and Moving Toward an Integrative Socio-Ecology

Beyond the nature–labour divide: trade union responses to climate change in South Africa

A economia ecológica e evolucionária de Georgescu-Roegen

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