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The climate crisis is not primarily a problem of 'believing science' or individual 'carbon footprints' - it is a class problem rooted in who owns, controls and profits from material production. As such, it will take a class struggle to solve. In this ground breaking class analysis, Matthew T. Huber argues that the carbon-intensive capitalist class must be confronted for producing climate change. Yet, the narrow and unpopular roots of climate politics in the professional class is not capable of building a movement up to this challenge. For an alternative strategy, he proposes climate politics that appeals to the vast majority of society: the working class. Huber evaluates the Green New Deal as a first attempt to channel working class material and ecological interests and advocates building union power in the very energy system we so need to dramatically transform. In the end, as in classical socialist movements of the early 20th Century, winning the climate struggle will need to be internationalist based on a form of planetary working class solidarity.
How did gasoline and countless other petroleum products become
so central to our notions of the American way of life? Huber traces
the answer from the 1930s through the oil shocks of the 1970s to
our present predicament, revealing that oil's role in defining
popular culture extends far beyond material connections between
oil, suburbia, and automobility. He shows how oil powered a
cultural politics of entrepreneurial life--the very American idea
that life itself is a product of individual entrepreneurial
capacities. In so doing he uses oil to retell American political
history from the triumph of New Deal liberalism to the rise of the
New Right, from oil's celebration as the lifeblood of postwar
capitalism to increasing anxieties over oil addiction. "Lifeblood" rethinks debates surrounding energy and capitalism, neoliberalism and nature, and the importance of suburbanization in the rightward shift in American politics. Today, Huber tells us, as crises attributable to oil intensify, a populist clamoring for cheap energy has less to do with American excess than with the eroding conditions of life under neoliberalism.
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