Climate Change through the Metabolism of “Green” Capitalism. Considerations of Ecology According to Marx
Keywords:
Capitalocene, Green Capitalism, Energy Transition, MetabolismAbstract
Climate change has become a current and global problem. It has sparked controversy, skepticism, and Manichean positions among the international political class and environmental activism. This article explores the edges of this problem and uses Karl Marx’s ecology, which breaks with the traditional interpretation of the supposed Prometheanism embodied in his work. Thus, climate change is not the result of diffuse global human action (Anthropocene), but the result of a historical interaction between capitalism and nature (Capitalocene). In this sense, green capitalism, through the energy transition, is nothing more than an extension of its mode of production and not a concrete solution to the general environmental deterioration.
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