"The South suffers through the payback on the entropy
which was then being exported into the future,
and now returns as climate change."
"The project of applying general systems theory to social sciences is crucial in today's crisis when social and ecological systems clash."
(...)
"If we view capitalism as an adaptive system, how might it adapt to the symptoms of its own decay (entropy)? (p.3) it adapts to its entropy in a peculiar relation of auto-parasitism. (...) Finance capital is delinked, more than in earlier industrial society, from reality (in the dual sense of losing contact with the real economy, and of failing to read information on approaching disaster). Consequently, signals of entropy are distorted, and embraced as signs of profit. The notion of risk (already central to capitalist economic discourse) takes on a wholly new and threatening meaning in the context of approaching ecological disaster, upon which symptoms finance capital parasitises, and thus accentuates (for example in futures market speculation on food shortage)" (p.9)
(...)
"There are limits to what any social system can do in abusing its environment. (p.27)
the milieu which has enabled capitalism to continue expanding is now to a significant extent depleted." (p.29)
(...) "social struggles over distribution have never been entirely separated from struggles to defend nature" (p.29)
"In pratical terms, environmental limits are therefore not merely external parameters to the human mode of production, but internal to it." (p.30)
(...)
"The project of applying general systems theory to social sciences is crucial in today's crisis when social and ecological systems clash."
(...)
"If we view capitalism as an adaptive system, how might it adapt to the symptoms of its own decay (entropy)? (p.3) it adapts to its entropy in a peculiar relation of auto-parasitism. (...) Finance capital is delinked, more than in earlier industrial society, from reality (in the dual sense of losing contact with the real economy, and of failing to read information on approaching disaster). Consequently, signals of entropy are distorted, and embraced as signs of profit. The notion of risk (already central to capitalist economic discourse) takes on a wholly new and threatening meaning in the context of approaching ecological disaster, upon which symptoms finance capital parasitises, and thus accentuates (for example in futures market speculation on food shortage)" (p.9)
(...)
"There are limits to what any social system can do in abusing its environment. (p.27)
the milieu which has enabled capitalism to continue expanding is now to a significant extent depleted." (p.29)
(...) "social struggles over distribution have never been entirely separated from struggles to defend nature" (p.29)
"In pratical terms, environmental limits are therefore not merely external parameters to the human mode of production, but internal to it." (p.30)
(...)
(...)
"The total emissions of carbon dioxide from energy use since the start of the Industrial Revolution present its highest numbers for UK and USA. (...) The South suffers through the payback on the entropy which was then being exported into the future, and now returns as climate change. Projections suggest that the effect will be uneven in the opposite sense to responsibility, i.e. the South which caused less of the problem will suffer more of it: the map of estimated morality attributable to climate change exactly follows the North-South divide (Abbott, et.al. 2006, p.9) (p.127)"
"The total emissions of carbon dioxide from energy use since the start of the Industrial Revolution present its highest numbers for UK and USA. (...) The South suffers through the payback on the entropy which was then being exported into the future, and now returns as climate change. Projections suggest that the effect will be uneven in the opposite sense to responsibility, i.e. the South which caused less of the problem will suffer more of it: the map of estimated morality attributable to climate change exactly follows the North-South divide (Abbott, et.al. 2006, p.9) (p.127)"
(...)
(...)
"Climate change will continue to be a problem because the temperature-deregulation cannot simply be put into reverse gear. However, human capacity and a plurality of different cultural responses have always created the possibility of adaptation.(p.33)
Capitalism is also adaptive, but its adaptation is focused on preserving itself as a system, i.e. the control of the capitalist class over means of production - nature - and people. The answer whether it can suddenly begin to act on behalf of humanity is like wishing the cause of the problem to be its solution, or, in a well known quote from Einstein: "we cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them"" (p.34)
in "The Entropy of Capitalism"
by Robert Biel
http://www.brill.com/entropy-capitalism
Capitalism is also adaptive, but its adaptation is focused on preserving itself as a system, i.e. the control of the capitalist class over means of production - nature - and people. The answer whether it can suddenly begin to act on behalf of humanity is like wishing the cause of the problem to be its solution, or, in a well known quote from Einstein: "we cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them"" (p.34)
in "The Entropy of Capitalism"
by Robert Biel
http://www.brill.com/entropy-capitalism
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