world with environmental destruction and ecological degradation. The writers of this article exte... more world with environmental destruction and ecological degradation. The writers of this article extensively criticize the spread of capitalism and continually try to make it responsible for every mess and inconvenience that the globe is facing today. AUTHORS'ARGUMENTS The authors basically center their discourse on three issues of Global Political Ecology. The planetary character of the ecological crisis being the first has impacts across the globe. The second one is the fact that the debates of climate change affirm the centrality of expert knowledge in shaping the definitions of problems and solutions. The third issue of interest is the question of carbon emission roots global problems in the material world of basic provisioning systems, and in energetic foundations of modernity itself. The article links the political economy of Global Capitalism with the political ecology of a series of environmental disasters and failed attempts of environmental policies. It gracelessly criticizes the neoliberal capitalism in terms of commodification of the earth and its productions – vegetables, minerals, and animals – and legislating limits and rights to pollute, to trade toxins, to finance emissions, etc. They affirm the quantification of natural values of clean air, forests, wild lives, and landscapes are unjust and unethical. The authors believe that the capitalist economy gains its efficient advantage by using people and the technology to do work, while doing nothing to restore the social capital, environmental chaos needed to sustain positive interpersonal relationships within the society and that of the natural ecological system. According to the authors; for capitalism, there is no any economic motivation to invest into the future at the expense of their current profits as they are solely driven by maximizing their profit margin.
world with environmental destruction and ecological degradation. The writers of this article exte... more world with environmental destruction and ecological degradation. The writers of this article extensively criticize the spread of capitalism and continually try to make it responsible for every mess and inconvenience that the globe is facing today. AUTHORS'ARGUMENTS The authors basically center their discourse on three issues of Global Political Ecology. The planetary character of the ecological crisis being the first has impacts across the globe. The second one is the fact that the debates of climate change affirm the centrality of expert knowledge in shaping the definitions of problems and solutions. The third issue of interest is the question of carbon emission roots global problems in the material world of basic provisioning systems, and in energetic foundations of modernity itself. The article links the political economy of Global Capitalism with the political ecology of a series of environmental disasters and failed attempts of environmental policies. It gracelessly criticizes the neoliberal capitalism in terms of commodification of the earth and its productions – vegetables, minerals, and animals – and legislating limits and rights to pollute, to trade toxins, to finance emissions, etc. They affirm the quantification of natural values of clean air, forests, wild lives, and landscapes are unjust and unethical. The authors believe that the capitalist economy gains its efficient advantage by using people and the technology to do work, while doing nothing to restore the social capital, environmental chaos needed to sustain positive interpersonal relationships within the society and that of the natural ecological system. According to the authors; for capitalism, there is no any economic motivation to invest into the future at the expense of their current profits as they are solely driven by maximizing their profit margin.
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