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A Radical Approach to the Climate Crisis
- Dissent
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Number 60, Number 3, Summer 2013
- pp. 51-57
- 10.1353/dss.2013.0047
- Article
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Several strands of green thinking maintain that capitalism is incapable of a sustainable relationship with non-human nature because, as an economic system, capitalism has a growth imperative while the earth is finite. One finds versions of this argument in the literature of eco-socialism, deep ecology, ecoanarchism, and even among many mainstream greens who, though typically declining to actually name the economic system, are fixated on the dangers of "growth."