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Anthropogenic Development Drives Species to Be Endangered: Capitalism and the Decline of Species

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Green Harms and Crimes

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The study of crimes against non-human species is central to the development of green criminology. This discussion contributes to this particular area of green criminology by examining limits to the viability of non-human animal populations as a function of systemic ecological harms.1 By ‘systemic’ we mean those ecological harms that are endemic to capitalism as a system of production, and which in the current context of global capitalism are also global in their appearance, and therefore are structural in origin. The specific viability issue that we address is the endangerment and extinction of species, and the relationship of species’ viability to the forms of ecological disorganization that are produced by capitalism in its ordinary course of development. We examine these issues in relation to the tendency for capitalism to produce ecological disorganization.

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Lynch, M.J., Long, M.A., Stretesky, P.B. (2015). Anthropogenic Development Drives Species to Be Endangered: Capitalism and the Decline of Species. In: Sollund, R.A. (eds) Green Harms and Crimes. Critical Criminological Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137456267_7

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