Do you have any takes on ecological rift?
Less of a take, more of an agreement with it! It's a good theory that I think helps explain the unsustainability of capitalism, and how a capitalist economic system "others" nature which subsequently causes a whole host of other problems.
“Capital does not just rob the soil and worker, as Marx observes, it necrotizes the entire planet. Here is a “metabolic rift”— between earth and labor—driven by the contradictions of endless accumulation. That accumulation is not only productive; it is necrotic, unfolding a slow violence, occupying and producing overlapping historical, biological, and geological temporalities.”
Justin McBrien, Accumulating Extinction: Planetary Catastrophism in the Necrocene
“Capital’s great need is for low-cost energy, food, and raw materials. The response to this imperative has been endless geographical expansion and endless innovation. They are not independent. They are in fact so closely connected that the technical fixes of capitalism have always been intertwined with movements of global expansion.”
Jason Moore, Transcending the metabolic rift: a theory of crises in the capitalist world-ecology
