Capitalism and its official ideology – namely neoliberalism that calls itself a science – regard economy and market identical. According to this belief natural resources that are necessary for the existence of mankind are free "inputs" that do not enter into company or even national economy calculations, since they have no costs – at least to a certain point. The article follows the path how basis principles of the bourgeois economy led to the absurd situation of present days when the growing ecolThe original article John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark: The Paradox of Wealth: Capitalism and Ecological Destruction Monthly Review, November 2009.