"... all the [current] environmental crises ... originate in the []tendency to over-production and over-consumption, which is specific to generalized commodity production. ... not due to the intrinsic characteristics of the human species but to the mode of production that became dominant about two centuries ago — capitalism — and the modes of consumption and mobility that it entails. The serious damages to ecosystems (climate change, chemical pollution, swift decline in biodiversity, soil degradation, destruction of the tropical forest, etc.) constitute one dimension of the global systemic crisis. Together, they express the incompatibility between capitalism and respect for natural limits. ..." ecosocialisthorizons/2013/06/foundations-of-an-ecosocialist-strategy/
Posted on: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 18:22:08 +0000
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