ABSTRACT
Climate change extends the reach of the sociological imagination into an ecological imagination, and even beyond that, into deep geological time. The structural interplay of contradictions results in a complex pattern of social oppression in both the metropolitan core and geographic periphery of capitalism. United Nations Framework facilitates openness, mutual translation, accommodation, and deliberation, but there is no necessary sociological synthesis, rather a generative convergence. The meta-industrial orientation is materialist in a very deep ontological sense, a statement of daily energies given over to protecting nature and human bodies as nature. The comprehensive failure of global neoliberalism is stimulating a shared ecological consciousness that transcends sociological differences of gender, race and class. Crises of over-production lead to imperialisms and latterly to neoliberal globalisation, dramatically restoring profitability by opening up new markets, reducing costs of production with write-downs in the value of plant and machinery, and relative value of labour.
