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This book brings together the voices of people from five continents
who live, work, and research on the front lines of climate
resistance and renewal. The many contributors to this volume
explore the impacts of extreme weather events in Africa, the
Caribbean and on Pacific islands, experiences of life-long
defenders of the land and forests in Brazil, India, Indonesia, and
eastern Canada, and efforts to halt the expansion of fossil-fuel
infrastructure from North America to South Africa. They offer
various perspectives on how a just transition toward a fossil-free
economy can take shape, as they share efforts to protect water
resources, better feed their communities, and implement new
approaches to urban policy and energy democracy. Climate Justice
and Community Renewal uniquely highlights the accounts of people
who are directly engaged in local climate struggles and community
renewal efforts, including on-the-ground land defenders, community
organizers, leaders of international campaigns, agroecologists,
activist-scholars, and many others. It will appeal to students,
researchers, activists, and all who appreciate the need for a truly
justice-centered response to escalating climate disruptions.
This book brings together the voices of people from five continents
who live, work, and research on the front lines of climate
resistance and renewal. The many contributors to this volume
explore the impacts of extreme weather events in Africa, the
Caribbean and on Pacific islands, experiences of life-long
defenders of the land and forests in Brazil, India, Indonesia, and
eastern Canada, and efforts to halt the expansion of fossil-fuel
infrastructure from North America to South Africa. They offer
various perspectives on how a just transition toward a fossil-free
economy can take shape, as they share efforts to protect water
resources, better feed their communities, and implement new
approaches to urban policy and energy democracy. Climate Justice
and Community Renewal uniquely highlights the accounts of people
who are directly engaged in local climate struggles and community
renewal efforts, including on-the-ground land defenders, community
organizers, leaders of international campaigns, agroecologists,
activist-scholars, and many others. It will appeal to students,
researchers, activists, and all who appreciate the need for a truly
justice-centered response to escalating climate disruptions.
The call for Climate Justice promises a renewed grassroots response
to the climate crisis. This emerging movement is rooted in
land-based and urban communities around the world that have
experienced the most severe impacts of global climate changes.
Climate Justice highlights the social justice and human rights
dimensions of the crisis, using creative direct action to press for
real, systemic changes. Toward Climate Justice explains the case
for Climate Justice, challenges the myths underlying carbon markets
and other false solutions, and looks behind the events that have
obstructed the advance of climate policies at the UN and in the US
Congress. This fully revised edition includes numerous updates on
current climate science and politics worldwide. Drawing on more
than three decades of political engagement with energy and climate
issues, author Brian Tokar shows how the perspective of social
ecology can point the way toward an ecological reconstruction of
society.
The failures of "free-market" capitalism are perhaps nowhere more
evident than in the production and distribution of food. Although
modern human societies have attained unprecedented levels of
wealth, a significant amount of the world's population continues to
suffer from hunger or food insecurity on a daily basis. In
Agriculture and Food in Crisis, Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar have
assembled an exceptional collection of scholars from around the
world to explore this frightening long-term trend in food
production. While approaching the issue from many angles, the
contributors to this volume share a focus on investigating how
agricultural production is shaped by a system that is oriented
around the creation of profit above all else, with food as nothing
but an afterthought. As the authors make clear, it is technically
possible to feed to world's people, but it is not possible to do so
as long as capitalism exists. Toward that end, they examine what
can be, and is being, done to create a human-centered and
ecologically sound system of food production, from sustainable
agriculture and organic farming on a large scale to movements for
radical land reform and national food sovereignty. This book will
serve as an indispensible guide to the years ahead, in which world
politics will no doubt come to be increasingly understood as food
politics.
The failures of "free-market" capitalism are perhaps nowhere more
evident than in the production and distribution of food. Although
modern human societies have attained unprecedented levels of
wealth, a significant amount of the world's population continues to
suffer from hunger or food insecurity on a daily basis. In
Agriculture and Food in Crisis, Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar have
assembled an exceptional collection of scholars from around the
world to explore this frightening long-term trend in food
production. While approaching the issue from many angles, the
contributors to this volume share a focus on investigating how
agricultural production is shaped by a system that is oriented
around the creation of profit above all else, with food as nothing
but an afterthought. As the authors make clear, it is technically
possible to feed to world's people, but it is not possible to do so
as long as capitalism exists. Toward that end, they examine what
can be, and is being, done to create a human-centered and
ecologically sound system of food production, from sustainable
agriculture and organic farming on a large scale to movements for
radical land reform and national food sovereignty. This book will
serve as an indispensable guide to the years ahead, in which world
politics will no doubt come to be increasingly understood as food
politics.
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