Capitalism in the Anthropocene: Ecological Ruin or Ecological Revolution

by John Bellamy Foster

Book Overview

A guide to the role of capitalism in creating the current state of climate emergency

Over the last 11,700 years, during which human civilization developed, the earth has existed within what geologists refer to as the Holocene Epoch. Now science is telling us that the Holocene Epoch in the geological time scale ended, replaced by a new more dangerous Anthropocene Epoch, which began around 1950. The Anthropocene Epoch is characterized...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158367974X
• ISBN13: 9781583679746
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Monthly Review Press
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 1.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.5" x 8.3"