Research On Foster's Ecological Materialism Thought

In recent years,environmental issue has gradually become a hot topic.Foster's ecological materialism thought has been concerned because it provides new theoretical resources for ecological crisis.Foster's family background,social environment,school life and career experience have an influence on his thought.Marx's theory of relationship between man and nature,the ideas of Western Marxism are the theoretical origin of Foster's thought.His thought has profound philosophical and natural science foundation.The theory of metabolic rift and the analysis of capitalist ecological crisis are consist of Foster's ecological materialism thought.Foster explains the theory of metabolic rift from the perspectives of connotation,manifestation,reason and the way of elimination.The concept,metabolic rift,has its natural connotation and social connotation,and contains the rift of rural and urban and even the whole world.The rift has rooted in capitalist system and the remedies lie in changing unreasonable capitalist production mode,insisting on the sustainable development and taking the communist society that unites laborers together.Foster thinks that there is inevitable conflict between capitalism and ecology,and the market and technology can not solve the conflict.The logic of capital dooms the anti-environmental trait of capitalism.Attempting to solve the ecological problem by commercializing environmental resources and capitalizing the nature is impracticable.However,Jevons paradox proves that trying to get rid of ecological dilemma through technology is also unnecessary.Only by revealing higher immorality,launching thorough ecological justice movement and rebuilding capitalist production relations along socialism can human beings solve the ecological crisis.Foster's ecological materialism thought not only has theoretical contribution,but also has its limitation.In general,although Foster constructs his thoughts from a historical perspective,he is never confined by history.On the contrary,he closely connects his thought with the current reality,and his thought has positive significance to China's ecological civilization construction.