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Outline :  
 
The development of the capitalist ecological crisis
[http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article25716 An ecofeminist world view]
Humans produce their existence through social contacts.
 
Labour, as a conscious activity, transforms natural resources into use values.
[http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article34879 Environment, ecosocialism and the foundations of revolutionary ecosocialism]
    1. Causes of the ecological crisis
 
    • Technological system is destructive?
[http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article31679 Climate change: IPCC recognizes …]
    • Population growth destroys nature?
 
    • Reconsider the relationship with of society with nature in a concrete historical and social context
[http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article37284 Pope Francis encyclical Laudate Si!]
    2. Marxist concepts explain the productivist nature of capitalism
    • Use value and exchange value
    • Production of exchange value becomes independent of human needs
    • General aim is accumulation of capital
    • Competition between capitals is necessary
    • Result is permanent increase of production and constant growing environmental degradation
    3. Short history of the development of capitalism
    • Enclosures movement in England
    • Farmers expulsed form their land: landless poor will become later the proletariat in factories
    • Separation of country side and towns
    • Capitalist dynamics of accumulation spread over the world
    • Industrialisation in 19th century is the cause of an erupting ecological crisis
    • Mercantilism: plundering of natural resources and genocides in colonies
    • First monocultures of export crops
    • New slave based economy put in place
    • Industrial revolution based on factories in cities and on burning of coal for steam engines
    • Growing differentiation in agriculture
    • Intensified destruction of tropical forests
    • The fertility crisis and its solution chemical fertilisers
    • Second industrial revolution : discovery of oil and mechanisation based on electricity
    • New sectors in 20th century: car industry, petrochemicals, aeronautics, farming and building engines
    • Agribusiness: pesticides and chemical fertilisers; GMO’s
    • New materials such as  plastics, pesticides growing poisoning of all ecosystems
    4. New global problems emerge in the 1970’s
    • Hole in ozone layer: problem solved by regulations not by market forces
    • Global warming caused by greenhouse gasses: most dramatic and urgent problem
    • Neoliberalism worsens the ecological crisis
    • Capitalist pseudo-solutions
    5. Necessity of an ecosocialist alternative

Revision as of 15:18, 5 November 2019

Outline : The development of the capitalist ecological crisis Humans produce their existence through social contacts. Labour, as a conscious activity, transforms natural resources into use values.

   1. Causes of the ecological crisis
   • Technological system is destructive?
   • Population growth destroys nature?
   • Reconsider the relationship with of society with nature in a concrete historical and social context
   2. Marxist concepts explain the productivist nature of capitalism 
   • Use value and exchange value 
   • Production of exchange value becomes independent of human needs
   • General aim is accumulation of capital
   • Competition between capitals is necessary
   • Result is permanent increase of production and constant growing environmental degradation
   3. Short history of the development of capitalism
   • Enclosures movement in England
   • Farmers expulsed form their land: landless poor will become later the proletariat in factories
   • Separation of country side and towns
   • Capitalist dynamics of accumulation spread over the world
   • Industrialisation in 19th century is the cause of an erupting ecological crisis
   • Mercantilism: plundering of natural resources and genocides in colonies
   • First monocultures of export crops
   • New slave based economy put in place
   • Industrial revolution based on factories in cities and on burning of coal for steam engines
   • Growing differentiation in agriculture
   • Intensified destruction of tropical forests
   • The fertility crisis and its solution chemical fertilisers
   • Second industrial revolution : discovery of oil and mechanisation based on electricity
   • New sectors in 20th century: car industry, petrochemicals, aeronautics, farming and building engines
   • Agribusiness: pesticides and chemical fertilisers; GMO’s
   • New materials such as  plastics, pesticides growing poisoning of all ecosystems
   4. New global problems emerge in the 1970’s
   • Hole in ozone layer: problem solved by regulations not by market forces
   • Global warming caused by greenhouse gasses: most dramatic and urgent problem 
   • Neoliberalism worsens the ecological crisis
   • Capitalist pseudo-solutions
   5. Necessity of an ecosocialist alternative