The real power of mass civil disobedience is not its ability to shock the powerful into listening, but rather its potential to draw masses of people into action.
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Archive | Climate Justice
New book launched
‘An important contribution to the fight to stop capitalist destruction’
Book review and full video of meeting to launch ‘System Change Not Climate Change: A Revolutionary Response to Environmental Crisis.’
Movement Building
Challenging capitalism is the ultimate climate mitigation strategy
There are no easy fixes, but to succeed, climate activists must build a broader movement to challenge and transcend global capitalism
The transition we need, 2
How would a revolutionary government protect the environment?
There is an enormous unused human potential waiting to be drawn into the job of saving the ecosphere. How can it be mobilized?
The transition we need, 1
Carbon pricing and new technology won’t stop climate change
We need truly radical measures, and ultimately a different kind of government with the political will to lead, coordinate and consolidate the transition
climate debt
Rich countries must pay for cyclone devastation in southern Africa
Climate change, caused by industrialized rich countries, is responsible for the disaster now unfolding in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi
Book Review
Good intentions won’t bring climate justice
Mary Robinson wants change, but her commitment to global elites prevents her from confronting the system that causes and maintains global injustice.
Movement Building
Illusion or Advance? Ecosocialists debate the ‘Green New Deal’
Activists from System Change Not Climate Change discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the Green New Deal proposal, and how the left should respond.
Interview
John Bellamy Foster on the ‘Green New Deal’
To bring about meaningful change, the resolution proposed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez must be part of an ecological revolution with a broad social base.
Book Review
Indigenous sovereignty and socialism in Canada
A Marxist perspective on the mass Indigenous movement that is in the vanguard of the fight for climate justice in Canada
Book Review
Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future
In ‘Climate Justice,’ grassroots activists from around the world, mostly women, tell their stories. A powerful and compassionate book.
Reading matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, October 2018
New books: Essays for Richard Levins … The Earth is not for Sale … Defending Howard Zinn … The Rise of Capitalism … Degrowth … Climate Justice … Below Freezing
We're back!
Packed NYC meeting celebrates relaunch of Science for the People
Reborn organization and magazine will combine writing on scientific issues, building a network of radical scientists, and acting for social justice
Reading from the left
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, June 2018
New Books! Red-Green Revolution. Rural Class Struggle. Climate Anthropology. Will Big Business Destroy the Planet? A Climate Justice Comic. Plundering Africa. Global Inequality.
Interview with Zafer Ülger
Ecological crisis and capitalism in Turkey today
Turkish socialist describes growing understanding that Marx’s ideas on ecology are important, and that the oppression of labor, women and oppressed peoples is not separate from the crisis of nature and ecosystems
apocatopia? utopalypse?
China Miéville: The Limits of Utopia
Utopias are necessary. But not only are they insufficient: they can be part of the system, the bad totality that organises us, warms the skies, and condemns millions to peonage on garbage scree.
Imperialism
Africa: New evidence of ongoing corporate looting
World Bank report shows massive depletion of Africa’s natural wealth by transnational corporations. Only mass action can block the extractivist plunder
Agadir Declaration
ATTAC: For food sovereignty, against ‘free trade’ agreements
“The so called free trade agreements are new colonial agreements that serve the interests of multinationals, favouring the pillage of lands, indigenous peoples’ communal areas, their water resources, their fish and their food”
Essential essays
Ecosocialist Resources, January 2018
Recommended reading: CO2 rise and denialism; women, nature and capital; left eco-modernists; carbon pricing; massive insect die-off; food nutrients in decline
For a Climate Damages Tax
Make fossil fuel giants pay for climate change destruction!
‘It is now time for the industry most responsible to pay for the damage it has caused, and for vulnerable countries worst affected to receive the financial assistance they so urgently need’