Abstract
In using the idea of Necrocene, the age of death and extinction due to capitalist accumulation, as opposed to the Anthropocene, this article will discuss how green capitalism is a ramification of the business-as-usual neoliberal praxis as it does not contemplate the pressing matters caused by capitalism as it exists today which are inherently linked to inequity, exploitation, death and extinction. Furthermore, through this lens, it will generate a critique of the Green New Deal and provide speculations on the planetary future. Finally, this article ambitiously aims to illustrate how through the imaginaries of death and extinction, capitalism and green capitalism can be challenged as they prove to be deathly and inconsistent to the creation of fruitful inroads for future alternatives towards the Eleutherocene: the age of liberated Earth and Humanity.
Highlights
In recent decades, scientists, environmentalists, political analysts and activists have portrayed the reality of our planet as a consequence of the climate emergency we are living in
In using the idea of Necrocene, the age of death and extinction due to capitalist accumulation, as opposed to the Anthropocene, this article will discuss how green capitalism is a ramification of the business-as-usual neoliberal praxis as it does not contemplate the pressing matters caused by capitalism as it exists today which are inherently linked to inequity, exploitation, death and extinction
This will be done by using the Necrocene nomenclature as opposed to the Anthropocene, employing it as a hermeneutical heuristic to analyze this form of capitalism from a Critical Theory and Environmental Humanities perspective
Summary
ISSN: 1647-0737 Publisher Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra e-cadernos CES, 34, 2020: 64-85. POLITICS FROM THE NECROCENE TO THE ELEUTHEROCENE ORIOL BATALLA GREEN CAPITALISM? POLITICS FROM THE NECROCENE TO THE ELEUTHEROCENE
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