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The Enemy of Nature The End of Capitalism or the End of the World? Kovel, Joel Publisher:  Zed Books Year Published:  2007   First Published:  2002 Pages:  329pp   ISBN:  978-1-84277-871-5 Library of Congress Number:  HC79.E5K68 2007   Dewey:  333.7 Resource Type:  Book We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy u. Capitalism and its by-rpoducts -- imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty, and the destruction of community -- are all playing apart in the destruction of our ecosystem. Abstract:  John Kovel is a Professor of Social Studies at Bard College and has been actively involved in green politics. The title of his book, The Enemy of Nature: The end of capitalism or the end of the world?, is enough to make the reader realise that the author considers capitalism, and its by-products, to be nature's (and man's) worst enemy and that he feels that a world with capitalism cannot exist for long. He argues against the claim that a better environment can be achieved through the current Western way of being. Divided into three parts -- "The culprit," "The domination of nature," and "Paths to ecosocialism" -- the book deals with three major aspects of this theory. The first section explores whether this theory is true by defining the ecological crisis and by discussing what capital is and how it affects the ecosystem. The second part of the book brings the concept of capitalism out of an economic context and into an ecological one. Capital is regarded as "a whole way of being" that "has to be radically transformed if the ecological crisis is to be overcome". The last section deals with the question of what has been done, and what must be done, to deal with this problem. The book is therefore a political, economic and scientific discussion, not limited to any one aspect of the ecological crisis. [Abstract by Nabeeha Chaudhary] Topics Aboriginal People Alienation Anarchism Bioregionalism Bolivia Capital Capitalism Carbon Dioxide Emissions Children Christianity Class Class Conflict/Class Struggle Commodities Communism Co-operatives Democracy Ecology Economic Alternatives Economic Growth Economic History Ecosocialism Ecosystems Environment/Economy Environmental Degradation Environmental Issues Exchange Value Floods/Flooding Global Warming Globalization Globalization of Economy Green Movement History Indigenous Peoples Kyoto Protocol Labour Power Luxemburg, Rosa Marx, Karl Marxism Money Nature Privatization Property Rights Racism Radical Environmentalism Radical Political Theory Revolution Socialism Soviet Union State, The Strategies for Social Change Sustainability Use Value

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