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System Change not Climate Change: A Revolutionary Response to Environmental Crisis

We are in the midst of the greatest environmental crisis humanity has ever seen. Yet despite politicians' rhetoric, repeated warnings from the scientific community and countless international conferences, the situation is getting worse. This book brings together articles from leading socialist and environmental activists who argue that the problem is the capitalist system. Whether it is capitalism's addiction to fossil fuels and plastic or the systematic destruction of the natural world through industrial farming, the system destroys the environment in its endless quest for profits. Mainstream environmental solutions are based on free-market solutions or place hope in business the very causes of the crisis in the first place. In contrast, these articles draw out how capitalism creates environmental destruction and why there needs to be revolutionary transformation of society.

Articles include editor Martin Empson on the "Can We Build a Sustainable Society?" and "Food, agriculture and Climate Change", Ian Angus on the "The Discovery and Rediscovery of Metabolic Rift", Kohei Saito on "Karl Marx’s Idea of Ecosocialism in the 21st Century", Ian Rappel on "Natural Capital: A Neoliberal Response to Species Extinction", Sarah Ensor on "Capitalism and the Biodiversity Crisis", Suzanne Jeffery on "Up Against the Clock: Climate, Social Movements and Marxism", Amy Leather on "Hopelessly Devoted to Fossil Fuels" and "Why Capitalism Loves Plastic", Carolyn Egan and Michelle Robidoux on "Canada’s Tar Sands, Indigenous Sovereignty and a Just Transition for Workers" and Camilla Royle on "Marxism and the Anthropocene".

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 180
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781912926183
  • Release date
  • 2019