The ecological rift : capitalism's war on the earth

Front matter -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction : a rift in earth and time -- PART ONE - Capitalism and unsustainable development -- The paradox of wealth -- Rifts and shifts -- Capitalism in wonderland -- The midas effect -- Carbon metabolism and global capital accumulation -- The planetary moment of truth -- PART TWO - Ecological Paradoxes -- The return of the Jevons Paradox -- The paperless office and other ecological paradoxes -- The treadmill of accumulation -- The absolute general law of environmental degradation under capitalism -- PART THREE -- Dialectical Ecology -- The dialectics of nature and marxist ecology -- Dialectical materialism and nature -- Marx’s grundrisse and the ecology of capitalism -- The sociology of ecology -- Imperialism and ecological metabolism -- PART FOUR -- Ways Out -- The ecology of consumption -- The metabolism of twenty-first century socialism -- Why ecological revolution? -- Notes -- INDEX