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Book SynopsisIf we were to ask what is the root cause of our current and unprecedented environmental crisis, climate change, many, particularly on the progressive Left, would refer to the excesses of capitalismand they'd be right. In Eco-Nihilism: The Philosophical Geopolitics of the Climate Change Apocalypse, Wendy Lynne Lee demonstrates that there are no versions of conquest capital compatible with the fact of a finite planet and that a logic whose operating premise is growth is destined to not only exhaust our planetary resources, but also generate profound social injustice and geopolitical violence in its pursuit. Nonetheless, it is clear that the violence and injustice of capital is selectivesome benefit greatly while others are subjugated to its pathological drive to profit. Hence, Lee argues that any comprehensive analysis of what Jason Moore has dubbed the Capitalocene must include an equally probing account of human chauvinism, that is, the axes along which capital is supplied with resourc
Table of ContentsPreface: The Planet Doesn’t Need Human Beings; Human Beings Need the Planet Chapter 1: Ecological Apocalypse, The Pathologies of Capital, Human Chauvinism—And the Improbable Desirable Future Chapter 2: Human Chauvinism, The Geopolitics of Climate Change, And the Pop-Cultural Ecocentric Solution Chapter 3: The Nihilistic Rhetoric of Climate Change Denial, Neoliberal Anxieties, and The Death of Science—Seven Takes Chapter 4: Globalization in the Circulatory System of Capital and the Death of the Nation State, The Fully Capitalized Planet, Five Takes Chapter 5: Salvation Capitalism: Steady State Sustainability, Techno-Utopia, and Planetary Metastasis—Six Takes Chapter 6: The Reclamation of Human-Centeredness and an Eco-Feminist Systems Approach to the Desirable Future
