• DOI:10.1177/1086026600132001
Corpus ID: 145416455

Environmental Crises and the Metabolic Rift in World-Historical Perspective

@article{Moore2000EnvironmentalCA,
  title={Environmental Crises and the Metabolic Rift in World-Historical Perspective},
  author={J. Moore},
  journal={Organization & Environment},
  year={2000},
  volume={13},
  pages={123 - 157}
}

J. Moore

Published 2000

Economics

Organization & Environment

This article proposes a new theoretical framework to study the dialectic of capital and nature over the longue duree of world capitalism. The author proposes that today’s global ecological crisis has its roots in the transition to capitalism during the long sixteenth century. The emergence of capitalism marked not only a decisive shift in the arenas of politics, economy, and society, but a fundamental reorganization of world ecology, characterized by a “metabolic rift,” a progressively… CONTINUE READING

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