“CAPITALISM AND ENVIRONMENTAL COLLAPSE” BY LUIZ MARQUES

Abstract

The purpose of the present work is to prepare a review of Luiz Marques's work entitled "Capitalism and Environmental Collapse", which is in its second and revised edition, published in the year 2016. The work covers, in a first part, subdivided into 11 chapters, the convergence of environmental crises whose dynamics in interaction impel us toward social-environmental collapse. The second part of the book discusses how illusory is sustainable capitalism, reporting to the immediate need for reassessment of the economic and political system in order to minimize the collapse already in progress, proposing a new format, which in the author's view would be apt to diminish the environmental crisis.