The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth

Sociotechnical agendas: Reviewing future directions for energy and climate research

Sovacool, B. K., Hess, D. J., Amir, S., Geels, F. W., Hirsh, R. F., Medina, L. R., Miller, C. A., Palavicino, C. A., Phadke, R., Ryghaug, M., et al. (2020) · Energy Research & Social Science · doi:10.1016/j.erss.2020.101617 · Cited by 424

The sociological imagination in a time of climate change

Norgaard, K. M. (2017) · Global and Planetary Change · doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2017.09.018 · Cited by 202

Digital extraction: Blockchain traceability in mineral supply chains

Calvão, F., & Archer, M. (2021) · Political Geography · doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102381 · Cited by 153

Navigating the Polycrisis: Mapping the Futures of Capitalism and the Earth

Albert, M. J. (2024) · The MIT Press eBooks · doi:10.7551/mitpress/15041.001.0001 · Cited by 85

Green Criminology: Capitalism, Green Crime and Justice, and Environmental Destruction

Lynch, M. J., & Long, M. A. (2021) · Annual Review of Criminology · doi:10.1146/annurev-criminol-030920-114647 · Cited by 82

Measuring the Ecological Impact of the Wealthy: Excessive Consumption, Ecological Disorganization, Green Crime, and Justice

Lynch, M. J., Long, M. A., Stretesky, P. B., & Barrett, K. L. V. (2019) · Social Currents · doi:10.1177/2329496519847491 · Cited by 67

Climate justice and sustained transnational mobilization

Almeida, P. (2019) · Globalizations · doi:10.1080/14747731.2019.1651518 · Cited by 66

The hidden injustices of advancing solar geoengineering research

Stephens, J. C., & Surprise, K. (2020) · Global Sustainability · doi:10.1017/sus.2019.28 · Cited by 52

Sugar ecologies: their metabolic and racial effects

Hatch, A. R., Sternlieb, S. R., & Gordon, J. T. (2019) · Food Culture & Society · doi:10.1080/15528014.2019.1638123 · Cited by 50

Marx’s Theory of Metabolism in the Age of Global Ecological Crisis

Saito, K. (2020) · Historical Materialism · doi:10.1163/1569206x-20202802 · Cited by 44

Constructing insignificance: critical race perspectives on institutional failure in environmental justice communities

Richter, L. (2017) · Environmental Sociology · doi:10.1080/23251042.2017.1410988 · Cited by 42

Nature and the international: towards a materialist understanding of societal multiplicity

Corry, O. (2019) · Globalizations · doi:10.1080/14747731.2019.1676587 · Cited by 41

Three metaphors for sustainability in the Anthropocene

Karlsson, R. (2015) · The Anthropocene Review · doi:10.1177/2053019615599415 · Cited by 36

Ecosocialisms, Past, Present and Future: From the Metabolic Rift to a Reconstructive, Dynamic and Hybrid Ecosocialism

White, D. F., Gareau, B. J., & Rudy, A. P. (2017) · Capitalism Nature Socialism · doi:10.1080/10455752.2017.1296479 · Cited by 36

Reimagining New Socio-Technical Economics Through the Application of Distributed Ledger Technologies

Manski, S., & Bauwens, M. (2020) · Frontiers in Blockchain · doi:10.3389/fbloc.2019.00029 · Cited by 32

Ecosocialism for Realists: Transitions, Trade-Offs, and Authoritarian Dangers

Albert, M. J. (2022) · Capitalism Nature Socialism · doi:10.1080/10455752.2022.2106578 · Cited by 29

The Social Impacts of Supply-Side Decarbonization

Beckfield, J., & Evrard, D. A. (2023) · Annual Review of Sociology · doi:10.1146/annurev-soc-031021-012201 · Cited by 26

Political ecologies of leisure: a critical approach to nature-society relations in leisure studies

Rose, J., & Carr, A. (2018) · Annals of Leisure Research · doi:10.1080/11745398.2018.1428110 · Cited by 25

Does oil and gas development increase crime within UK local authorities?

Stretesky, P. B., Long, M. A., McKie, R. E., & Aryee, F. A. (2018) · The Extractive Industries and Society · doi:10.1016/j.exis.2018.03.006 · Cited by 23

Ecomodern Masculinity, Energy Security, and Green Consumerism: The Rise of Biofuels in the United States

Dockstader, S., & Bell, S. E. (2019) · Critical Sociology · doi:10.1177/0896920519885010 · Cited by 21

‘Globalizing’ academics? Ranking and appropriation in the transformations of the world-system

Welsh, J. (2019) · Globalizations · doi:10.1080/14747731.2019.1638150 · Cited by 20

The Neoliberalization of (African) Nature as the Current Phase of Ecological Imperialism

Frame, M. L. (2016) · Capitalism Nature Socialism · doi:10.1080/10455752.2015.1135973 · Cited by 20

The Future is the Termination Shock: On the Antinomies and Psychopathologies of Geoengineering. Part Two

Malm, A. (2023) · Historical Materialism · doi:10.1163/1569206x-20232430 · Cited by 19

Global environmental governance should be participatory: Five problems of scale

Gunderson, R. (2018) · International Sociology · doi:10.1177/0268580918792786 · Cited by 19

Community-Centered Climate Planning: Using Local Knowledge and Communication Frames to Catalyze Climate Planning in Texas

Lieberknecht, K. (2021) · Journal of the American Planning Association · doi:10.1080/01944363.2021.1896974 · Cited by 19

Aggregate dredging impacts in South East England: Improving ecological health by integrating fisher ecological knowledge with scientific research

Anbleyth‐Evans, J. (2018) · Marine Pollution Bulletin · doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.06.051 · Cited by 17

Is Islam Pro- or Anti-Environmental? Interpretations and Implications

Hekmatpour, P., Burns, T. J., & Boyd, T. W. (2017) · Journal of Asian Research · doi:10.22158/jar.v1n1p92 · Cited by 17

Metabolic fractures: How household livelihood practices differentiate agricultural input use in southwest China

Zinda, J. A., & Kapoor, S. (2019) · Journal of Rural Studies · doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2019.09.008 · Cited by 16

Towards an Indigenous Environmental Sociology

Norgaard, K. M., & Fenelon, J. V. (2021) · Handbooks of sociology and social research · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-77712-8_23 · Cited by 15

Classical Marxist accounting research: A literature review and directions for future research

Mantzari, E., Smyth, S., & Lanka, S. V. (2025) · Critical Perspectives on Accounting · doi:10.1016/j.cpa.2025.102789 · Cited by 14

Deep Ecology, the Holistic Critique of Enlightenment Dualism, and the Irony of History

Scerri, A. (2016) · Environmental Values · doi:10.3197/096327116x14703858759053 · Cited by 14

The Ideological Work of Philanthropic Myths: A Study of Post-pandemic Disbursement Quota Reforms in Canada

Ahmad, F., & Saifer, A. (2023) · VOLUNTAS International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations · doi:10.1007/s11266-023-00628-1 · Cited by 10

Government's green grip: Does industrial policy improve firm environmental performance?

Bu, W., & Ren, S. (2023) · Managerial and Decision Economics · doi:10.1002/mde.3861 · Cited by 10

Remaking Resilience: A Material Approach to the Production of Disaster Space

Shtob, D. A. (2022) · City and Community · doi:10.1177/15356841221077970 · Cited by 9

Value and Nature: From Value Theory to the Fate of the Earth

Walker, R. M. (2016) · Human Geography · doi:10.1177/194277861600900101 · Cited by 9

Green Criminology

Lynch, M. J., Long, M. A., & Stretesky, P. B. (2021) · Handbooks of sociology and social research · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-77712-8_17 · Cited by 8

Equality, not sufficiency! Critical theoretical perspectives on the inequality-unsustainability nexus

Darmon, I. (2024) · Sustainability Science Practice and Policy · doi:10.1080/15487733.2024.2338588 · Cited by 9

The (ecologically) imperial mode of sport at the exterminist stage of capitalism: Counter stories of Dakar Rally's ride in South America (2009–2019)

Chen, C. (2023) · International Review for the Sociology of Sport · doi:10.1177/10126902231163062 · Cited by 8

Pandemic Capitalism: Metabolic Rift, World-Ecology Crossing Dialectical Biology

Bergamo, J. N. (2023) · Historical Materialism · doi:10.1163/1569206x-20232092 · Cited by 7

Development Pathways and the Political Economy of Maladaptation: The Case of Bioenergy as a Climate Strategy in Brazil

Morales, J. E. R. (2024) · Studies in Comparative International Development · doi:10.1007/s12116-024-09439-x · Cited by 4

Metatheorizing Structural Human Ecology at the Dawn of the Third Millennium

Burns, T. J., & Rudel, T. K. (2015) · Human Ecology Review · doi:10.22459/her.22.01.2015.02 · Cited by 7

It’s not just climate: rethinking ‘climate emotions’ in the age of burnout capitalism

Albert, M. J. (2025) · Environmental Politics · doi:10.1080/09644016.2025.2526228 · Cited by 6

The Formal and Real Subsumption of Gender Relations

Portella, E., & Busk, L. A. (2024) · Historical Materialism · doi:10.1163/1569206x-bja10039 · Cited by 6

Capitalist Logics, Pollution Management, and the Regulation of Harm: Economic Responses to the Problem of Waste Electronics

Surak, S. M. (2016) · Capitalism Nature Socialism · doi:10.1080/10455752.2015.1136663 · Cited by 6

Mining and Mineral Resources

Bridge, G. (2017) · Wiley eBooks · doi:10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg1096 · Cited by 6

Colonial development policies as tools of ecological imperialism in Southeast Asia

Njoh, A. J. (2024) · Planning Perspectives · doi:10.1080/02665433.2024.2420874 · Cited by 5

Nature–society relations in disaster governance frameworks

Meriläinen, E. (2025) · Disasters · doi:10.1111/disa.12678 · Cited by 4

Evaluating the sustainability reporting of oil and gas companies in post-conflict regions: the case of Kurdistan

Khudir, I. M., Rahman, A. R., Farooq, M. B., & Momin, M. A. (2025) · Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies · doi:10.1108/jaee-08-2024-0382 · Cited by 4

Revisiting Connections between Capital and Nature II: The Case of Climate Change

Somerville, P. (2020) · Capitalism Nature Socialism · doi:10.1080/10455752.2020.1804693 · Cited by 4

Readiness at what cost? Trauma, displacement and opportunism in the Florida Keys

Shtob, D. A. (2022) · Frontiers in Sustainable Cities · doi:10.3389/frsc.2022.936809 · Cited by 4

The Meatless Menu Paradox? Environmental Theory and Plant-Based Fast-Food Options

Briscoe, M. D. (2022) · Society and Animals · doi:10.1163/15685306-bja10105 · Cited by 4

Patchwork Vectors for the Anthropocene: The Role of Creative Ecologies

Cole, D. R. (2024) · Qualitative Inquiry · doi:10.1177/10778004241229785 · Cited by 3

The dialectics of disaster: Considerations on hazards and vulnerability in the age of climate breakdown, with a brief case study of Khuzestan

Malm, A. (2023) · Jàmbá Journal of Disaster Risk Studies · doi:10.4102/jamba.v15i1.1588 · Cited by 3

A Note on the Meta-Industrial Labor Thesis

Salleh, A. K. (2025) · Capitalism Nature Socialism · doi:10.1080/10455752.2025.2490769 · Cited by 2

From the Epistemology of Ignorance to Rassenwahn: Thinking Ideology with Mills and Adorno

Busk, L. A. (2020) · Constellations · doi:10.1111/1467-8675.12526 · Cited by 2

The 2000s

Dawson, A. (2015) · Wiley eBooks · doi:10.1002/9781118607251.ch5 · Cited by 2

Environmental Justice

Stretesky, P. B., & Lynch, M. J. (2016) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935383.013.115 · Cited by 2

Resistance to the Trans Mountain Expansion in a Settler Colonial Context

Karsgaard, C. (2023) · Palgrave studies in education and the environment · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-26182-4_2 · Cited by 2

Transferencias ambientales intergeneracionales: un análisis sobre abuelos y nietos

Guisado, M. C. (2015) · doi:10.36576/summa.44025 · Cited by 2

Malthusianism

Boonstra, W. J. (2024) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-25900-5_235-1 · Cited by 2

Learning from land cinema: political pedagogy, plots and plantations

Voelcker, B. (2025) · Film Education Journal · doi:10.14324/fej.08.1.02 · Cited by 1

Subaltern urbanisation, shifting periphery and rural-urban dilemma in Bengal Delta: Rethinking planetary urbanisation in a densely populated deltaic region

Sahana, M., & Siddique, Z. F. (2025) · Dialogues in Urban Research · doi:10.1177/27541258251366303 · Cited by 1

Book Review: What Every Environmentalist Needs To Know About Capitalism: A Citizen’s Guide to Capitalism and the Environment , by Magdoff, F. and Foster, J. B.

Szerszynski, B. (2013) · Organization & Environment · doi:10.1177/1086026612461258

Global Capital and Global Labor

Robinson, W. I. (2014) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cbo9781107590250.003

Pesadelo high-tech: a quarta revolução indutrial e o fim do mundo que conhecemos

Gomez, A. V. (2018) · Libertas · doi:10.34019/1980-8518.2017.v17.18524

Value or Rent? A Marxist Analysis of Offsetting

Apostolopoulou, E. (2020) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-46788-3_4

Study on economics and its two major branches

Gupta, D. R. (2018) · International Journal of Financial Management and Economics · doi:10.33545/26179210.2018.v1.i1a.1

Conclusion

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The Elephant in the Field

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The Roots of the Soy Model

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Against the Grain

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Bibliography

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Notes

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Capitalism, Socialism, and the Environment

Kelly, D. L. (2013) · Nature and Culture · doi:10.3167/nc.2013.080206 · Cited by 3

The Ecological Rift by John Bellamy Foster, Richard York & Brett Clark Life Sciences

Foster, J. B., & Clark, R. Y. B. (2011)

The Ecological Rift: Capitalism

Wilson, S. (2013) · Alternate routes

Capitalism, ecological destruction and mainstream environmental economic theory: a radical critique

Fisher, W. V., & Forstater, M. (2014) · MOspace Institutional Repository (University of Missouri) · Cited by 2

The robbery of nature capitalism and the ecological rift

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