Green Economy, Green Capitalism and the Imperial Mode of Living Limits to a Prominent Strategy, Contours of a Possible New Capitalist Formation

“绿色经济”同“低碳经济”概念和“绿色增长”战略密切相关，致力于摆脱西方新自由主义思潮主导下的深刻功能性和合法化危机，并形成一个社会、生态和经济的共赢局面。笔者认为，鉴于当前的社会结构、权力关系和主流性政治经济战略，绿色经济的目标遥不可及。绿色经济面临的阻碍，包括当前的资本主义和帝国主义关系、以发展为导向的趋势及其相关的社会和政治促因、国家的紧缩政策、发展主义相关战略等。此外，还有一个长期以来被忽视的难题，即人们对社会—自然破坏性关系的理解和实践，即“帝国式生活方式”。Green Economy is closely related to concepts like“low?carbon climate economy”, and is closely linked to green growth strategies. It seems to promise an attractive orientation out of the deep functioning and legitimation crisis of neoliberalism in Western countries, and proclaims as an approach to overcome the existing multiple crises. Given existing social structures, power relations and dominant political and economic strategies, I argue that the far?reaching goals of a Green Economy won??t be achieved. I argue that far?reaching obstacles to realize Green Economy are strong. Below it is shown that existing capitalist and imperial relations, trends like the growth orientation, related social and political forces to it, austerity politics in many countries, the strategy of strong developmentalism in other countries are such barriers. Furthermore, there is another obstacle which has been ignored: the long?lasting conception and practice of destructive societal nature relations, i.e. imperial mode of living.181-9