Research on the American Shale Revolution from the Ecological Perspective of Marxism

Abstract

Since the entry to 20th century, the increasing ability of human beings to understand and change nature, the growth of population, and the negative effects of scientific and technological development have led to ecological crisis, exerting much influence on the future destiny of human beings. The damage human has made to the ecological environment, such as soil erosion, land desertification, land salinization, biodiversity reduction, has seriously done harm to the ecological balance. This paper takes the American shale revolution as the research object and further study the American shale revolution from the perspective of Marxist’s ecological theory.