Ecofascism and Capitalocene: Is Mankind the Real Virus?

Abstract

In recent years, the idea that the planet is the greatest beneficiary of crises affecting human life, such as epidemics and pandemics, has gained momentum in environmental discussions. This has strengthened the discourse according to which mankind is a “plague” that must be eradicated, a concept that has been spreading in our societies for decades, driven in many cases by political and economic elites worldwide, which gives way to the possibility of establishing ecofascist forms of power, by valuing radical practices such as eugenics as a way to confront the so-called anthropocene that has led to the environmental crisis, without leaving room to point out the real cause of marking a planetary geological era: capitalism, so it would be more correct to speak of capitalocene.