Global dynamics of socio-environmental crisis: Dangers on the way to a sustainable future

Abstract

Today we are living in the midst of an advancing socio-environmental crisis on a planetary scale. Barriers to a sustainable future - as a positive solution to that crisis - have accumulated. Globalization and capitalist transnational power have worsened social and environmental problems, including global climate change, with serious ecological and socio-economic implications, migration and poverty, social inequalities, unemployment, labour exploitation and degradation, accumulation by dispossession, rent and resource extraction. The global danger to peace is multiplied by current militarization, the proliferation of warfare, and the legitimization of wars and military interventions.