ABSTRACT
This chapter establishes a relationship between ‘economic growth’ and ‘ecological conundrum’ by drawing an attention to the epistemological and intellectual understanding. It debates on the long-drawn logic of the economic growth and its intrinsic relation with capital in terms of theorisation, measurability and determinants as mainstream and Eurocentric. Such growth theories and the practising regimes thus produce an underlying economic reasoning to depend on a capitalistic approach and to rationalise an unlimited desire for material gain and natural resource extraction, implicating deeply on the world ecological substance. The chapter also problematises the new emerging environment regime and its embeddedness to economic and capitalist agenda, while exploring methodical alternatives in the philosophies of reclamation, de-materialisation and reciprocation with the living world.
