Capitalist and socialist responses to the ecological crisis

Monthly Review

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 25-40

  Wallis, Victor ^a  

^a BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC   (United States)

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EID: 56749117880     PISSN: 00270520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14452/MR-060-06-2008-10_3     Document Type: Review

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1. Full documentation for this essay can be found at http://www. monthlyreview.org. In stressing the inadequacy of even the most far-reaching capitalist responses to the crisis, this article builds on the July-August 2008 issue of Monthly Review, especially the demonstration by the Editors that the emissions-reduction target set by the influential Stern Review falls far short of what would be needed to stem environmental breakdown. Major theoretical reference-points are Paul Burkett, Marxism and Ecological Economics (2006),
2. John Bellamy Foster, Ecology Against Capitalism (2002),
3. and Vandana Shiva, Earth Democracy (2005). The articles of Neil Smith on which I comment appear in Socialist Register 2007 ("Nature as Accumulation Strategy")
4. and in George Robertson et al., eds., FutureNatural (1996) ("The Production of Nature"). My criteria for organizing energy-use reduction are examined in more detail in articles in the March 2001, June 2004, and June 2006 issues of Capitalism Nature Socialism.