The Ecological Rift by John Foster
Capitalism's War on the Earth
Argues that modern capitalism has created a profound rupture in the metabolic interaction between society and nature, producing systemic ecological crises—climate change, soil depletion, biodiversity loss, pollution—that cannot be explained as mere technical failures but are rooted in capitalist production and accumulation. Combining Marxist ecological theory with historical and empirical analysis, it traces how industrial agriculture, fossil-fuel dependence, and commodity-driven growth have driven ecological degradation and insists that meaningful solutions require political-economic transformation toward more egalitarian, ecosocialist arrangements to restore long-term metabolic balance.
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- 2010
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- American
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- English
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