Capitalist accumulation and changes in the environment

Abstract

The purpose of capital is not use value, that is, consumption, the satisfaction of human needs, which are determined. That purpose is the exchange value, but getting it done through a process devoid of measurement, such as the value of automatic expansion movement, is an extensive and intensive process of capital accumulation. The limit of the production and accumulation of capital is capital itself, that is, its self-valorization. It follows that capital is essentially an individual predator, man and nature. This predation process takes two forms: predation itself and pollution environmental. But both are the necessary product of the social form of capitalist production process specifically. In both forms of predation, capital also seeks to fulfill its ultimate purpose, its expansion, projects by promoting the “green economy”.