Climate Crisis, The : South African and Global Democratic Eco-Socialist Alternatives /

An investigation of emerging eco-socialist alternatives. Capitalisms addiction to fossil fuels is heating our planet at a pace and scale never before experienced. Extreme weather patterns, rising sea levels and accelerating feedback loops are a commonplace feature of our lives. The number of environ...

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Other Authors: Satgar, Vishwas (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Series:Democratic Marxism ; v. 3.
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Table of Contents:
  • The climate crisis and systemic alternatives
  • The limits of capitalist solutions to the climate crisis
  • The anthropocene and imerpeial ecocide
  • The employment crisis, just transition and the universal basic income grant
  • The rights of Mother Earth
  • Buen Vivir: an alternative perspective from the peoples of the global south to the crisis of capitalist modernity
  • Challenging the growth paradigm: Marx, Buddha and the pursuit of "happiness"
  • Ubuntu and the struggle for an African eco-socialist alternative
  • The climate crisis and the struggle for African food sovereignty
  • The climate crisis and a "just transition" in South Africa
  • Energy, labour and democracy in South Africa
  • Capital, climate and the politics of nuclear procurement in South Africa
  • Climate jobs at two minutes to midnight
  • Deepening the just transition through food sovereignty and the solidarity economy
  • Eco-capitalist crises in the "Blue Economy"