Is our pursuit of The American Dream Creating the Ecological Crisis Have we failed to notice the connection between capitalism and the ecological crisis? So is it time for a radical change? By that I mean a change that many Americans may even see as anti-American? Professor Chris Wilson in his latest book Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis, offers what many would consider a rather radical solution to dealing with what he and so many others believe is nothing short of an ecological disaster.