Foster, John Bellamy,

The robbery of nature : capitalism and the ecological rift / John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark. - 384 pages ; 22 cm

"Published in agreement with Monthly Review Press, New York for South Asia"--Title page verso

Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-373) and index.

"In "The Robbery of Nature," John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark, working within a system begun by Karl Marx and German chemist Justus von Liebig, examine capitalism's plundering of nature via commodity production, and how it has led to the current anthropogenic rift in the Earth System. Departing from much previous scholarship, Foster and Clark adopt a materialist and dialectical approach, bridging the gap between social and environmental critiques of capitalism. The ecological crisis, they explain, extends beyond questions of traditional class struggle to a corporeal rift in the physical organization of living beings themselves, raising critical issues of social reproduction, racial capitalism, alienated speciesism, and ecological imperialism"--

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Environmental economics.
Capitalism--Environmental aspects.
Ecology--Economic aspects.
Environmental degradation.
Socialism--Environmental aspects.

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