The Global Fight for Climate Justice; Anticapitalist Responses to Global Warming and Environmental Destruction

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9781552663448
• ISBN10: 1552663442
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2011-02-01
• Publisher: Fernwood Pub Co Ltd

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Ian Angus is one of the world’s best-known ecosocialist activists. He edits the online journals Climate and Capitalism and Socialist Voice and directs ReadingfromtheLeft. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. Judy Rebick is a social justice activist, a radio and television broadcaster, and the author of several books, including Ten Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution and Transforming Power: From the Personal to the Political. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.