Abstract: Ecological crisis is resulted from capitalism’s development mode with capital accumulation as its basic logic, and it thus runs inevitably at the expense of the ecological environment. Reflection on the form of human advancement triggered by the ecological crisis tells that green capitalism, though it proposes methods to control environmental pollution and protect natural resources under capitalist civilization, ignores the fundamental contradiction between the capitalist system and the ecological environment. In contrast, the new form of human advancement embraces ecological civilization and the green culture it connotes is a scientific socialist culture that pursues the harmony between human beings and nature, and thus is bound to promote the progress and development of human civilization. The development of green culture in the new era will certainly provide Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions for the construction of global ecological civilization and the sustainable development of the world.

Key words: green culture, ecological crisis, ecological civilization, new form of human advancement