While corporations continue with business as usual, climate change is rapidly expanding the gap between rich and poor, according to this group of anticapitalists from five continents. Their essays here cover topics from food shortages and carbon trading to perspectives from indigenous peoples, and the authors make a compelling case that saving the world from climate catastrophe will require much more than tinkering with technology or taxes. They argue only radical social change can prevent irreversible damage to the earth and civilization.
Authors
<![CDATA[Ian Angus]]> <![CDATA[Angus]]>, <![CDATA[Judy Rebick]]> <![CDATA[Rebick]]>
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- ©2010
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- 303.48/2
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- 22
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Table of Contents
- To my grandchildren Abby and Sam in the hope and conviction that you will inherit a better world 2
- Contents 5
- 1 Climate Emergency 5
- 2 Starving The Poor 5
- 3 False Explanations False Solutions 5
- 4 The Fantasy of Green Capitalism 5
- 5 Privatizing The Atmosphere 6
- 6 Voices From the Global South 6
- 7 Building a Climate Emergency Movement 6
- 8 Ecosocialist Responses to Capitalist Ecocide 6
- Foreword 7
- Foreword to the British edition 9
- Introduction 11
- About the authors 13
- Red and Green 15
- 1 CLIMATE EMERGENCY 16
- Tomorrow Will Be Too Late 17
- Some Impacts of Global Warming 18
- Not a Distant Prospect 21
- Climate Wrongs and Human Rights 24
- If Socialism Fails The Spectre of 21st Century Barbarism 27
- 2 STARVING THE POOR 33
- World Hunger Agribusiness and the Food Sovereignty Alternative 34
- The global food industry is not organized to feed the hungry it is organized to generate profits for corporate agribusiness. 42
- A New International Order is Needed 47
- The Food Crisis is Systemic and Structural 50
- Peasants and Small Farmers Can Feed The World 52
- Our Heritage as Food Producers is Critical to the Future of Humanity 55
- The Rich Do Not Know Hunger 58
- 3 FALSE EXPLANATIONS FALSE SOLUTIONS 60
- Too Many People 61
- Population control theories all relegate the billions of people in the global South to being just a part of the problem. 64
- The Myth of the Tragedy of the Commons 66
- In the real world small farmers fishers and others have created their own institutions and rules for preserving resources and ensuring that the commons community survived through good years and bad. 68
- Magic Bullet 1 The Ethanol Scam 77
- Magic Bullet 2 Carbon Capture and Storage 83
- A New War on the Planet 88
- 4 THE FANTASY OF GREEN CAPITALISM 90
- The Failures of Green Economics 91
- Sustainable Capitalism 95
- The Limits of Green Keynesianism 101
- Capitalisms Anti-ecology Treadmill 112
- Capitalism as a system thrives on the cultivation and celebration of the worst aspects of human behaviour selfishness and self-interest greed and hoarding the dog-eat-dog mentality. 120
- 5 PRIVATIZING THE ATMOSPHERE 123
- The Durban Declaration on Carbon Trading 124
- Cap and Trade Schemes 126
- The Obscenity of Carbon Trading 130
- Why Carbon Markets Cant Save the World 132
- Six Arguments Against Carbon Trading 134
- 6 VOICES FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH 140
- Respect Mother Earth 141
- A New Era Is Beginning 147
- We Demand Full and Effective Participation 151
- Mother Earth is in Crisis 152
- Two Statements from Climate Justice Now 156
- ALBA Statement at Americas Summit 160
- Rich Countries Must Pay Their Ecological Debt 165
- To Save Humanity We Must Return to Our Roots 168
- 7 BUILDING A CLIMATE EMERGENCY MOVEMENT 181
- Only Political Activism and Class Struggle Can Save the Planet 182
- Crisis Challenge and Mass Action 186
- How Can We Build an Effective Movement 195
- Workers and Climate Change 197
- The Three Decisive Social Forces that Can Stop Climate Change 199
- Climate Change is a Trade Union Issue 201
- Class Struggle and Ecology 203
- 8 ECOSOCIALIST RESPONSES TO CAPITALIST ECOCIDE 206
- Making the Greens Redder and the Reds Greener 207
- For a Society of Good Ancestors 210
- Greenhouse gas emissions are not unusual or exceptional. Waste and pollution and ecological destruction are built into the systems DNA. 214
- Climate Change Charter 220
- The resources needed to avoid climate catastrophe exist our enormous challenge is to organize a climate action movement strong enough to enforce implementation of a plan for climate sustainability. 224
- The Belem Ecosocialist Declaration 233
- Environmental destruction and climate change constitute an act of aggression by the rich against the poor 235
- If capitalism remains the dominant social order the best we can expect is unbearable climate conditions an intensification of social crises and the spread of the most barbaric forms of class rule 236
- Climate Crisis 21st Century Socialists Must Be Ecosocialists 239
- Over and above technical concerns the most important adaptation measure is drastic reduction of poverty and social inequality 252
- The world carbon market gives capitalists new means of exacerbating competition between workers 263
- The trade union left must free itself from a narrow focus on redistribution of wealth must contest the very concept of wealth and the way that wealth is produced 269
- Within the limits of what is socially possible elementary ethics requires anyone whose basic needs are satisfied to act in a manner that avoids contributing to climate change 273
- Socialism must be judged not only by its contribution to satisfying human needs but also by its environmental sustainability 279
- The integration of socialism and ecology is a fundamental precondition for the restoration of Marxisms revolutionary vitality 283
- Some suggestions for further reading 285