Civilization Crisis and Capitalist Ecology: a critique from the latin american cosmovisions

Abstract

Our start point assumption is the concrete existence of the capital’s civilizational crisis, with multiple bifurcations, and one of these is the Ecological Crisis. This article general goal is to highlight the meanings of capital’s civilizational crisis and the need to break with Capitalist Ecology to consolidate others horizons for civilization on Latin America’s Political Ecology perspective. This study adopts a qualitative theoretical-bibliographic research, that coverage Agrarian Geography, specifically Latin America’s Political Ecology. With this study it was possible to verify that there is a theoretical complexity when approaching the meanings of capital’s civilization crisis, which means different crises from it’s core axis, the capital as a civilizatory, political, economic and cultural model. This way, only breaking with Capitalist Ecology will it be possible to consolidate other civilization horizons, such as those already practiced by various Latin American social groups, where the producing relationships respect life and nature.