Ecological Economic Analysis of the Ecological Turn in the Development of Modern Civilization

During the primitive civilization and agricultural civilization periods,the functions and structures of various elements within the ecological and economic system were able to develop synergistically.But humans were always passive in the face of nature and cannot yet break free from its constraints and oppression.During the period of industrial civilization,the contradiction between the unlimited expansion of economic system demand and the relative reduction of ecosystem supply became increasingly severe.Its development model had obvious non ecological economic characteristics,which posed a great threat to the sustainable development of human society.The ecological turn in the development of human civilization is an inevitable trend,and the gradual replacement of industrial civilization by ecological civilization will become an objective fact.Ecological civilization has overcome the non ecological economic nature of industrial civilization and established an ecological economic operation mode that promotes and transforms economic and ecological systems in both directions.It has achieved a perfect combination of ecological operation of social and economic systems and economic operation of natural ecosystems,and harmonious,coordinated,and win-win development of economic society and natural ecology.

The Theoretical Explanation of Non-ecological Economic Qualities of the Development Mode of Industrial Civilization:An Analysis Based on the Critical Perspective

The development mode of industrial civilization has created huge material wealth for human society,but at the same time the severe ecological problems that have arisen from it have made human civilization fall into the dispersion of unsustainable development.The industrialized development mode has obvious non-ecological economic qualities,which are specifically manifested in the destruction of the ecological economy relationship between nature and mankind,the emergence of cracks of metabolism between nature and mankind,the unbalanced development of the social productive forces and the natural productive forces,and the functioning of one-way linear non-circular economy.Under the trend of ecological evolution of human civilization,the industrial civilization will be replaced by the ecological civilization,and then the industrial economic development mode will be transformed into the ecological economic development mode.As a result,the predicament of once unsustainable development has been gradually dispersed and human civilization enters a beautiful new era of coordinated development of economic society and natural ecology.

The Theoretical Explanation of the Industrial Civilization's Non-ecological Appearances:An Analysis Based on the Critical Perspective

The industrial civilization has played an irreplaceable role in the evolution of human civilization,but it is dispelled by the serious ecological problems it has brought about.Thus,the prosperous industrial civilization cannot develop sustainably because of the loss of the solid natural ecological foundation.From the perspective of ecological economics,its whole process shows obvious non-ecological appearances,which are the sharpness of the basic contradiction of the ecological economic system,the predatoriness of the ecological economic structure and the inevitability of the ecological crisis.These non-ecological appearances reflect the objective factual state of separation and opposition between the economic system and the ecological system in the process of the industrial civilization development.Only by transforming the industrial civilization into the ecological civilization can human civilization evolve sustainably.