Account of the ecological impact that the human species has on the planet. Broswimmer argues that in the open market place nature has been reduced to an assortment of exploitable resources. Focusing in particular on corporate-driven neoliberal forms of globalization, the industrial war economy and the massive increase in human population, he shows how we are willfully destroying our world. The five chapters of the book explore the critical milestones and turning points in human social evolution and associated changes of society-nature relations that have led to the loss of biodiversity and progressive ecocide. Chapter one explores the turning points in human evolution that led to the emergence of culture and and language as the defining marker of our species. Chapter two explores the impact of pre-modern societies on the environment. Chapter three provides a historical and sociological overview of the etiology of ecocide and mass extinction of species in the early modern era. Chapter four explores the sociological processes reflecting the developments in the modern industrial era. Finally, chapter five analyses the social and historical processes that account for the accelerating mass extinction and progressively ecocidal nature of the post-World War II era.