Rifts and Shifts.

The article explains the cause of environmental crises. The metabolic interaction between humans and the earth affects both natural and social history. The state of nature is based on the operations of the capitalist system, with the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation changing the global climate and deforestation. Solving the ecological crisis involves the dematerialization of the economy that would reduce the demands placed on nature. Other topics discussed are Karl Marx' notion of capitalism's metabolic relation to nature, soil crisis, technology, and energy and climate crisis.