Climate Crisis and the Kleptocene - On the Commodification of Sentience

In Climate Crisis and the Kleptocene the author argues that the nullification of all value that competes with exchange value is inherent to the ontology of capitalism, including value associated with sentient life. Despite recent reform efforts to address the climate crisis, capitalism's kleptocratic logic is catastrophic for planetary stability.

List of contents

Introduction: "Watching as It All Goes Down the Drain"
Chapter 1: The Disarticulation of Value
Chapter 2: Normalizing the Disarticulation of Value Across Species: Response to David Wallace-Wells
Chapter 3: Commodification of Sentience in the Maintenance of Structural Inequality: More of David Wallace-Wells
Chapter 4: Paving the Road to the Kleptocene: The Salvation Capitalism of Michael Mann's The New Climate War
Chapter 5: How Animal Rights Ethics Sustains the Commodification of Sentience: Response to Gary Francione and Richard Epstein
Chapter 6: "Webs of Life" and Death in the Kleptocene: "As food," the "Four Cheaps," and Jason Moore's (Unwitting) Invitation to the Geo-Logic of the "Black Anthropocene"
Conclusion: Terror, Urgency, Empathy.

About the author

Wendy Lynne Lee is professor of philosophy at Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg.

Product details

• Authors: Wendy Lynne Lee, Lee Wendy Lynne
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2024
• EAN: 9781793607966
• ISBN: 978-1-79360-796-6
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; NATURE / Animal Rights, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, Environmental Economics, Animals & society, PHILOSOPHY / Environmental