TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pineault,Éric
TI  - A social ecology of capital
SN  - 9780745343778
AV  - HM548 .P56 2023
U1  - 306.3 23/eng/20230306
PY  - 2023///
CY  - London
PB  - Pluto Press
KW  - Economic development
KW  - Sociological aspects
KW  - Environmental economics
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- The material flow -- Nature's work : the ecology of the material flow -- Metabolic regimes in a historical perspective -- Fossil-based industrial metabolism -- On capitalist metabolism -- Accumulation and social metabolism in the great capitalist acceleration -- Conclusion : emanicipation amid the ruins of fossil metabolism
N2  - "Capital is pushing into motion ever larger global material flows. In doing so it has come to depend on massive expenditures of energy, putting to work fossil fuels and the machines they animate to transform the world, accumulate power and grow the economy. The ecological relations and crises of today's societies are driven by the processes of extraction of the elements that come together as a throughput of material and energy flows controlled by capital and shaped by its imperative of valorization. In A Social Ecology of Capital, Éric Pineault proposes an original model of the fossil social metabolism that has sustained the growth of advanced capitalism in the last century. Drawing on ecological economics and critical political economy, the book analyses how the social structures of accumulation, production, consumption and waste determine and regulate the material flow and the accumulation of material artifacts. Showing how social relations shape the ecology of capital, the book highlights the contradictions humanity now faces."-- Back cover
ER  -