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Reasons And Countermeasures Of Ecological Crisis On The Basis Of Social System

Posted on:2006-04-21Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:J XuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1116360155468488Subject:Forestry Economics and Management
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On the development of industrial revolution, the ecological crisis become more and more serious which threaten the people in the world. More and more people realized that sustainable development is the only way to conquer the crisis. However, many years have passed since the thoughts of sustainable development appeared in 1962, our environment become worse and worse which shows it's a long way to turn sustainable development into realties.As far as we are concerned, industrial revolution is connected with capitalism. Ecological socialist claimed that the reason caused ecological crisis is capitalism in fact. They point out that since capital logic is to after profits; it needs unlimited growth without caring about nature. But, nature resources, being the basement of production, are limited, ecological crisis must occurred. Moreover, capital logic came into the whole economical course and caused wealth gap and consumptism which aggravates ecological crisis. As for the countermeasures, ecological socialist told us: the steady state economy.The steady state economy can eliminate ecological crisis, but ecological socialist insisted decreasing economical growth. After all, what ecological socialists study is developed countries. In my opinion, we can protect our environment with economy developing if we choose a Chinese steady state economy.Although China is a socialism country, ecological crisis exist. With the construction of market system, capital's logic appears which aggravates our ecological crisis. Socialism is our social system virtues. We should combine socialism and market system, which can get both efficiency and fair. The steady state economy is an effective way to solve the problem. According to realities, our own steady state economy should include: moderate growth, fair distribution, sustainable consumption. By the steady state economy, we can constrain the capital's logic and overcome ecological crisis.Production is ihe most critical parts of the whole economy, as Marx told us. The way to eliminate the capital's logic is to construct publicly-owned enterprise and strengthen macroeconomics. Since sustainable development and socialism have the same goal which is to meet the demand of the whole people, the effective way to solve ecological crisis should based on the socialism. As for distribution, the unfair distribution system will suffer the ecology and society, we should decrease wealth gap. Consumptism aggravates the ecological crisis and is not fit for China which natural resources are so limited; we should change our traditional socialism goal which is to meet the increasing demand of the people. We should know what are the real needs, what are factious.Although the steady state economy is not perfect, it's a effective way, I believe.
Keywords/Search Tags:Social system, Ecological crisis, Ecological socialism, Steady state economy, Sustainable development
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