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For many years, two opposing axes have existed in environmental thought: “anthropo-centered or not” and “allow semi-permanent economic growth or not”. However, these opposing axes are already becoming a thing of the past. The issue in environmental thought today is rather, whether we should adapt human society to the requirements of the global ecosystem, or whether, on the contrary, we should adapt the global ecosystem to the requirements of human society. In this paper, the ideology that takes the latter position is called “environmental accelerationism”.
Environmental accelerationism is defined as a philosophy that seeks to overcome the limits of the natural environment, or “one earth amount”, by manipulating, managing and controlling the global environment through the power of technology, while maintaining the current socio-economic system. Whether desirable or not, in future, environmental accelerationism could become the mainstream environmental ideology, with degrowth defeated and green growth absorbed.
The purpose of this paper is to clarify the relationship between environmental accelerationism and accelerationism in contemporary thought. Accelerationism is a philosophical trend that has been popular in the United States since the 2010s, and its core idea is that the current mainstream socioeconomic system should be further accelerated, while acknowledging that capitalist society has various problems.
In this paper, after analyzing the positions of N. Land from right-accelerationism, A. Srnicek and A. Williams from left-accelerationism, and the e/acc and d/acc positions that have become hot topics in the tech industry in recent years, it is examined how these positions are connected to environmental accelerationism.
