Abstract

PINEDA RAMIREZ, César Enrique. Limits and contradictions of capital in nature. Prob. Des [online]. 2021, vol.52, n.207, pp.157-178.  Epub Mar 07, 2022. ISSN 0301-7036.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iiec.20078951e.2021.207.69780.

This article addresses the main theses on the contradiction of capital in nature from three theoretical perspectives. These approaches provide elements for understanding the unsustainability of capitalism. The present article presents a synthesis of what is known as the capital/nature contradiction, based on homologies, complementarities, and consensuses between three theoretical approaches: 1) the historical dynamics of capital; 2) the productive-consumptive form of infinite growth, and 3) the decoupling of accumulation periods versus cycles of renewal, adaptation, and assimilation of ecosystems.

Keywords : capitalist systems; Marxism; ecological economics; economics of the environment and ecology; environmental economics.

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