What if we were forced to live inside an artificial pod with air tanks behind us because of scarce oxygen levels, as victims having to pay for one of our basic needs for survival, air? The financially powerful would perhaps dare to confront such a world. Yet, what about those assigned to the lower levels of the social stratification system? How would they pay for the air to continue their life? Could it be possible to step outside this nightmarish universe and enter instead an alternative space offering free air to all individuals regardless of social hierarchies? Sarah Crossan’s post-apocalyptic eco-dystopia Breathe (2012) grapples with these questions, pointing to the possible threats awaiting all the living beings in case of nature’s degradation, decreasing oxygen levels, and the fall of air into the hands of capitalism. The present study discusses Breathe with the aim of emphasizing how devastating the results of ecological damage and thereby the monopolization of air by capitalistic desires could be, leading to the denial of even a biological site of existence to those lacking enough money for buying air tanks, that is, to those who can be already addressed as the living dead in social terms. As evidenced in the novel, with nonhuman air(nature)-human subjects being intertwined, capitalizing on nature no wonder equals to the colonization of the human bodies due to the role it disgracefully takes in determining who deserves to live, I would further contend. To underline that in the capitalocentric hands of those in power, not only nature but also lower social classes who fail to pay for air are disempowered, therefore, I discuss the novel in the context of Capitalocene.