Key to the Leap: Leave the Oil in the Soil
The world ecological crisis is now apparent in abrupt climate shifts that are impossible to miss even in capitalist heartlands.
The world ecological crisis is now apparent in abrupt climate shifts that are impossible to miss even in capitalist heartlands.
“We don’t know how long we have before climate change goes from dangerous to extremely dangerous, but we know that continuing with business as usual makes such a shift increasingly likely.”
Socialist thought is re-emerging at the forefront of the movement for global ecological and social change.
In my Monthly Review articles, I showed that there is simply no evidence for, and a wealth of evidence against, the claim that talking about environmental crises causes apathy or strengthens the right.
Green Capitalism: Why it can’t work, by the noted Belgian ecosocialist Daniel Tanuro…speaks to two separate audiences, challenging greens to recognize that environmental destruction cannot be stopped so long as capitalism continues, and challenging Marxists to change their views and behavior, to take into account limits to growth.