Overlay of the Absolute Law of Environmental Degradation on the Absolute Law of Capital Accumulation in South America — A Trigger for Climate Collapse

Nubia Barrera Silva

Capitalism's dependence on South America is reaching exponential levels, on the verge of surpassing everything previously known in terms of magnitude, intensity, and territorial expansion. It encompasses the Great Expropriation of land and territories belonging to Indigenous Peoples and agrarian communities. The externalisation of eco-environmental fractures directly intervenes in the superimposition of the absolute general law of environmental degradation on the general law of capitalist accumulation, with the consequent collapse of the climate. This is a historic event in the course of capitalism and unprecedented in the history of the Earth. The climate emergency presents an opportunity to create contexts for establishing eco-socialism, the only alternative for present and future survival.

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