My case study will be looking at Qatar in a more Eco-Marxist perspective, Qatar’s had exposure to oil as an energy source, leading to more labor implementations resulting as well as the increased sense of capitalism. However, with this industrialization also comes an increased level of environmental pollution, as more factories are present to better Qatar’s economy. Qatar tends to prioritize their need to better the environment, which is why new forms of agriculture are embedded into Qatar’s culture. Henceforth, Qatar is now familiar with planting more trees in Education City, parks and deserted Sites. Alongside being a more independent country, Qatar strives to have local produce through farms such as “Baladna” which is the main source of dairy and food produce currently. With this produce farm being a highly demanded market, enters the term “capitolence” which Kunkel introduced in his text. Capitalism will naturally exist always and will always be present unless humans no longer exist, which is why as humans we are used to hearing about capitalism. Additionally, like the complexity of the ecosystem there is also a complexity of the labor system, add them both together and it creates an even more problematic system. Which in turn would define the environmental system as a more capitolecene than an Anthropocene. This is seen in Qatar as mentioned due to the desire to continue growing the economy, having a more green environment, as well as a clean green political mindset. 

Other than environmental economic aspects being taken care of by leading authorities, the people of qatar have also engaged in numerous projects willingly in order to become a part of the environmental change. For example, in December of 2019 Qatar tried out a new initiative to plant one million trees all around Qatar. Students like myself voluntarily became a part of this journey. Successfully the country was able to reach the desired outcome of trees planted. This initiative works against the idea of the capitalocene, as this was not an initiative for labor workers to perform but have Qatar’s population take part in enhancing our environment. This in turn almost creates a new sense of life in Qatar, motivating its people to take part rather than create forced labor into migrant workers. This is also aiding Moores claim that what brings together climate, food, work and finance is the fact that capitalism is a common factor within all of these areas. It proves that we live in a capitalist society and that production and power is ever reliant on causing ecological problems. This issue of capitalism in Qatar within the environmental sector should be fixed in order to solve this social, economic and environmental issue. The country can do so by creating more people based initiatives, decreasing labor hours and promoting ways to society that will better their uses/ storage of their products, all of which will decrease the demand of labor.