Metabolic Rift: The Main Originator Of The Ecological World Theory

Eco-socialists have revisited Marx’s writings and believe that he was the main originator of the ecological world view. William Morris, the English novelist and poet is credited for developing key principles of Eco-socialism. Metabolic Rift is a recent ideology introduced by John Bellamy Foster. This is an extension of Marx’s view on ecological crisis that occur under capitalism. The concept of the Metabolic Rift is the dynamic interchange between human beings and nature, resulting from human labour. John Bellamy Foster is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon. He writes about political economy of capitalism and economic crisis, and Marxist theory. Social ecology, green socialism and metabolic rift are the ideologies that merge with the aspects of
So he often visits the place to watch the Twin-zas at their work. Standing on the lip of the well, he looks on as a man goes down the shaft, rotating slowly on a sling. A rope is attached, by a way of a pulley and the family members lower him in by walking up the slope of the well and when they feel his tug, they pull him out again by walking down. The lips of the wells are slippery from spills and it is not uncommon for unwary workers and children to tumble in, often these falls go unnoticed. In the blind march of progress, people not only neglect and kill their environment but ruthlessly cause threats to their own existence. William Rueckert aptly says,
We are in an environmental crisis because the means by which we use the ecosphere to produce wealth are destructive of the ecosystem itself. The present system of production is self destructive. The present course of human civilization is suicidal. In our unwitting march towards ecological suicide we have run out of options. Human beings have broken out of the circle of life, driven not by biological need, but by social organization which they have devised to conquer nature.