Environmental Crises and the Ambiguous Postneoliberalising of Nature
Author(s)
Brand, Ulrich
Abstract
This paper reviews the emergence of the environmental crisis in the 1970s and links it to the neoliberal and neoimperial aspects of capitalism. The current environmental debate and the general societal relationship with nature are contextualized within post neoliberalism, with the blame resting on middle-classes in “Western” countries and increasingly on the new consumers in the South. The author concludes that a new attitude needs to emerge that does not conceal the negative ecological and social consequences of the “good lifestyle” in some regions of the world.
