This article aims to explore the relationship between imperialism and political ecology, the identifying characteristics of the historical development of ecological imperialism, and the ecosocial implications of its cosmetic adaptation—namely, green imperialism—in a context of growing threat and biophysical concern. We first provide a succinct updated definition of imperialism based on world-systems analysis, which serves to understand imperialism as the system of economic domination of global capitalism, placing countries at the core of the system at one pole of extraction of labor, energy, and material resources, and those at the periphery at the opposite pole of supply. This hierarchization helps to understand ecological imperialism as a series of externalizations that the core tends to implement globally, transforming the periphery into a drain for these externalizations. As part of it, green imperialism appears as a new mode of accumulation aimed at preserving the imperial mode of living in the core legitimized by supposedly environmentally beneficial policies and discourses. We conclude by addressing the need for a fruitful dialogue between the critiques of ecologically unequal exchange and the radical positions of contemporary degrowth in order to reduce the most harmful productive sectors and favor a socially just transition and development in the Global South.

本文旨在探讨帝国主义与政治生态之间的关系，生态帝国主义历史发展的识别特征，以及在日益增长的威胁和生物物理关注的背景下其装饰性适应（即绿色帝国主义）的生态社会影响。我们首先根据世界体系分析对帝国主义进行了简洁的更新定义，该定义有助于将帝国主义理解为全球资本主义的经济统治体系，将处于该体系核心的国家置于榨取劳动力、能源和经济的一极。物质资源，以及处于供应对立极的外围资源。这种等级化有助于将生态帝国主义理解为核心国家倾向于在全球范围内实施的一系列外部化，将外围国家转变为这些外部化的排泄物。作为其中的一部分，绿色帝国主义作为一种新的积累模式出现，旨在维护帝国生活方式的核心，这种生活方式被所谓的环境有益的政策和话语所合法化。最后，我们提出需要在生态不平等交换的批评与当代去增长的激进立场之间进行富有成效的对话，以减少最有害的生产部门，并有利于全球南方的社会公正转型和发展。