Green Capitalism: An oxymoron.

Green capitalism is an oxymoron. A life-supporting, sustainable and therefore ecologically viable system cannot be built upon rampant consumerism, constant spatial expansion and a never-ending quest for still higher rates of economic growth i.e. three central components of late capitalism. A non-expansive economic system that does not have profitability as its central axis and that seeks to regenerate and improve upon ecological conditions can't be called a capitalist system. It would be as different from the dominant economic paradigm as day is to night.

Green capitalism is an attempt to heal the wound with it's cause, in that it continues to rely upon viewing nature as a mere pool of resources. It does not in any way cure our cultural and individual dissociation from the natural world, which is simultaneously both the root cause of this dire ecological crisis of mass extinction and the hidden premise of capitalism. We need a green economic and political system to be sure. What we don't need is the old wine on new bottles referred to as green capitalism. We need to weave a new story of reciprocity and sustainability in which human beings and nature are interwoven threads. We don't want to prolong the existence of the old story and remain oblivious to the abyss.