书目名称 | Capitalism and Environmental Collapse |
编辑 | Luiz Marques |
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概述 | Presents a comprehensive review of data that shows how different environmental crises are converging to a global environmental collapse.Provides an interdisciplinary framework to interpret the current |
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描述 | .This book intends to be an alert to the fact that the curve measuring environmental costs against the economic benefits of capitalism has irreversibly entered into a negative phase. The prospect of an environmental collapse has been evidenced by the sciences and the humanities since the 1960s. Today, it imposes its urgency. This collapse differs from past civilizations in that it is neither local nor just civilizational. It is global and occurs at the broadest level of the biosphere, accelerated by the convergence of different socio-environmental crises, such as:.Earth energy imbalance, climate change and global warming.Sea-level rise.Decrease and degradation of forests.Collapse of terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity.Floods, droughts, wildfires, and extreme weather events .Degradation of soils and water resources.Increase in pollution caused by fossil fuels and coal .Increase in waste production and industrial intoxication.The book is divided in two parts. In the first part it presents a comprehensive review of scientific data to show the already visible effects of each of the different environmental crises and its consequences to human life on Earth. In the second part, Luiz Ma |
出版日期 | Book 2020 |
关键词 | Climate change; Global warming; Ecological crisis; Environmental crisis; Anthropocene; Capitalism and env |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47527-7 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-47529-1 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-47527-7 |
copyright | Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 |