Refusing Ecocide: From Fossil Capitalism to a Liveable World (Critiques and Alternatives to Capitalism)

Synopsis

Refusing Ecocide: From Fossil Capitalism to a Liveable World provides a critical analysis of the central role of fossil capitalism in causing climate change and argues that only alternatives based upon democratic eco-socialism can prevent the deepening of the climate crisis.Employing three core concepts within historical materialism – capitalist accumulation, imperialism and hegemony – it locates the existential threat of our changing climate in the drive for increasing profit and growth, the domination of advanced capitalist states that strip resources and exploit cheap labour, and the consent to the capitalist way of life in the global North. With attention to the ways in which, powered by fossil fuels, capital has subjected the world to its predatory logic, this book charts this history and surveys the damage from the Industrial Revolution to today’s deep civilizational crisis, arguing that the market-based and purely technological solutions of ‘climate capitalism’ are too little, too late.A call for a multifaceted and multi-scalar shift away from capitalist accumulation, imperialism and class hegemony and instead towards democratic eco-socialism, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in political and social theory, the environment and sustainability.

Copyright:

2025

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781040257159

Related ISBNs:

9781040257067, 9781032536415, 9781032536422, 9781003412922

Publisher:

Taylor & Francis

Date of Addition:

11/19/24

Copyrighted By:

William K. Carroll

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature, Earth Sciences, Politics and Government, Sociology

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Bookshare Staff

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