This chapter takes a critical look at some of the key concepts through which academics, social movement activists and others have attempted to make sense of what many now see as a growing crisis in the relation between human economic and social life and the rest of nature.

Since it is through the economy that the core material and energetic exchanges between humans and the rest of nature take place, this chapter will take a closer look at economic ideas than we did in the rest of the book.

More on the topic This chapter takes a critical look at some of the key concepts through which academics, social movement activists and others have attempted to make sense of what many now see as a growing crisis in the relation between human economic and social life and the rest of nature.: