Introduction
editCarbon Rift, similar to Karl Marx's concept of metabolic rift, relates to the input and output of carbon from human capitalistic systems into the environment. Basically, increased commodity production demands the greater levels of carbon dioxide to be pumped into the biosphere via fossil fuel consumption. Ultimately this "rift" has adverse effects on nearly every aspect of life. Many of the specifics regarding how this concept of a metabolic carbon rift interacts with capitalism are proposed by Brett Clark and Richard York in a 2005 article in the journal Theory and Society.[1] Researchers such as Jean P. Sapinski of the University of Oregon claim that dispite increased interest in closing the carbon rift, capitalism has little foreseen effect on fixing this issue.[2]
References
edit- ^ Clark, Brett; York, Richard (2005). "Carbon metabolism: Global capitalism, climate change, and the biospheric rift". Theory and Society. 34: 391–428 – via JSTOR.
- ^ Sapinski, Jean P. "Constructing Climate Capitalism: Corporate Power and the Global Climate policy‐planning Network." Global Networks, vol. 16, no. 1, 2016., pp. 89-111doi:10.1111/glob.12099