ABSTRACT
The recent crisis of capitalism as a social-ecological world system indicates that ‘the wall between human and natural history has been breached’ (Chakrabarty, 2009: 221) and that human beings have become ‘geological agents’ who are destabilising the climate and many of the biophysical systems on which their livelihoods depend. Western nations and the capitalist system play the most important roles in destabilising the conditions that had previously functioned as the boundaries of human existence. And undoubtedly, the environmental damage linked to the ecological crisis will exacerbate inequalities across the globe.
