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A lucid and rigorous demonstration that climate change cannot be
overcome unless capitalism is overcome. The scourge of humanity is
also the scourge of nature. This is a great achievement: putting
forth the necessary contours of the direction that must be taken if
we are to be equal to the greatest challenge ever faced by
humankind. - Joel Kovel, author of The Enemy of Nature The climate
crisis is at a critical moment while millions despair that no
action is being taken. The difficulties our "world leaders" have in
taking meaningful action do not spring out of nowhere but from
their refusal to understand that this crisis is the consequence of
the globalised, neoliberal economic system. This book argues that
we cannot simply green our current society, but that we need a more
thorough, more fundamental social transformation. - Natalie
Bennett, leader of the Green Party of England and Wales An
important contribution to outlining an ecosocialist project able to
overcome the contradictions between a critique of capitalism and
ecology. Daniel Tanuro demonstrates that climate change cannot be
separated from the "normal" functioning of capitalism. He argues
that it is therefore necessary to replace the logic of maximising
profit with that of maximising common well-being within an
environmental framework. The reading of this book should convince
ecologists to become anti-capitalists. And vice-versa. - Michel
Husson, an economist at the IRES Paris, author and global justice
activist
As capitalism continues with business as usual, climate change is
fast expanding the gap between rich and poor between and within
nations, and imposing unparalleled suffering on those least able to
protect themselves. In THE GLOBAL FIGHT FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE,
anticapitalist activists from five continents offer radical answers
to the most important questions of our time: ** Why is capitalism
destroying the conditions that make life on Earth possible? ** How
can we stop the destruction before it is too late? " In 46 essays
on topics ranging from the food crisis to carbon trading to
perspectives from indigenous peoples, they make a compelling case
that saving the world from climate catastrophe will require much
more than tinkering with technology or taxes. Only radical social
change can prevent irreversible damage to the earth and
civilization. "Essential reading for everyone who is serious about
confronting the climate emergency." -Emma Murphy, co-editor, Green
Left Weekly EDITED BY IAN ANGUS Ian Angus, who wrote several of the
articles in this book and selected the others from a wide range of
authors and movements, is one of the world's best-known
ecosocialist activists. He is editor of the online journal Climate
and Capitalism, which has been described as "the most reliable
single source of information and strategic insights for climate
justice." Ian is also Associate Editor of Socialist Voice, an
Advisory Editor of Socialist Resistance, and a founding member of
the Ecosocialist International Network. He lives in Ontario,
Canada. THE GLOBAL FIGHT FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE Editor: Ian Angus
Publisher: Resistance Books (London) ISBN: 978-0-902869-87-5
Publication Date: July 2009 Trade paperback: 6" x 9" (15cm x 23cm)
284 pages "At last, an absolutely indispensable guide to the debate
on climate change, a sourcebook that makes the case for
anti-capitalist action as the only effective way to stop global
warming. Of course the powers-that-be don't agree - after all, who
else is responsible for the current crisis? But we all need The
Global Fight for Climate Justice if we are to fight for a liveable
world." -Joel Kovel, author of The Enemy of Nature; founding member
of the Ecosocialist International Network "A wonderful collection
of articles from across the world by climate change activists, from
governmental leaders such as Evo Morales to trade unionists like
Tony Kearns. This book will inform, excite and energise those who
see the need to fight both the impact of climate change and the
political systems that have produced it." -Jane Kelly, editor (with
Sheila Malone) of Ecosocialism or Barbarism "Everyone who wants a
better world should read The Global Fight for Climate Change, to
understand the economic, social and political causes of the climate
crisis, and the sweeping changes that are needed to save the
Earth." -Suzanne Weiss, Socialist Voice contributing editor; author
of Anti-Semitism, Zionism, and the Defense of Palestinian Rights
"'Socialism or Barbarism' is no longer (if it ever was) an abstract
theoretical proposition. This comprehensive collection of essays
focused upon the climate and food crises, the responses of capital
and socialist alternatives, draws upon both global social movements
and leading advocates of an alternative to barbarism to demonstrate
that the choice before us is an immediate one, not one to be put
off to the future." -Michael A. Lebowitz, author of Build it Now:
Socialism for the 21st Century and Beyond Capital: Marx's Political
Economy of the Working Class "The most reliable single source of
information and strategic insights for climate justice is Climate
and Capitalism, the website Ian Angus edits, and it is a tribute to
the movement's development that demand has arisen for this book."
-Patrick Bond, director of the Centre for Civil Society, University
of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
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