ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews up-to-date science on environmental destruction and climate change. It explains the prominent Green writers on how the existing economy, understood as a 'kind' of 'capitalism', can be tweaked in sustainable ways to meet the challenges of looming biospheric annihilation they decry. Marxian economics offers up a very clear way of thinking about the embedding of human material reproduction in the lifeworld, biosphere, and global ecosystems to ensure a livable human future. The 'perfection' of the capitalist market as the medium for human material reproduction is arrived at in dialectical economic theory only by holding use value implicit. The chapter discusses that the neoliberal policy 'toying' with economic life continues to be in the service of the abstract, quantitative, capitalist-like social goal of augmenting mercantile wealth, it can mount critique of Green argument on tweaking capitalism for environmentally sustainable ends particularly given Greens' own reference to the economy as a 'kind' of 'capitalism'.
