This is an original, accessible book for scholars, students,
activists, and the general public on the greatest crisis the world
has faced. The authors challenge the widespread notion that a green
and peaceful set of technological reforms in the current economic
and political system – perhaps a “green capitalism” – can
prevent disaster. Dying for Capitalism analyzes the “triangle of
extinction” that links capitalism, environmental destruction, and
militarism as a system that cannot sustain life on the planet. The
authors analyze how the extinction triangle evolved historically,
how it functions globally as integral to the world capitalist
order, and how the United States has become the dominant
“extinction nation.” They also show how recent anti-democratic
and anti-scientific cultural and political forces intensify denial
of the threat and subordinate health and survival to profit and
extreme concentrated power. The book offers a “slender path” of
social and political transformation that can prevent catastrophe.
The path requires moving beyond current ruling systems. But
possibilities of survival arise from action at local, state,
regional, and global levels through multiple strategies and
movements that already exist. The authors draw on the history of
abolitionism and emancipation from slavery in the United States to
show how a system that appears unchangeable can be transformed,
while describing organizations, movements, and practices that are
models of hope and a shift from the triangle of extinction to the
“circle of creation.”
General
| Imprint: |
Taylor & Francis
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Universalizing Resistance |
| Release date: |
July 2023 |
| Firstpublished: |
2023 |
| Authors: |
Charles Derber
• Suren Moodliar
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
248 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-03-251258-7 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-03-251258-X |
| Barcode: |
9781032512587 |
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