Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet Huber Matthew T.
Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet Huber Matthew T. How to build a movement to confront climate changeThe climate crisis is not primarily a problem of 'believing…
Specifikacia Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet Huber Matthew T.
Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet Huber Matthew T.
How to build a movement to confront climate changeThe 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. In this ground breaking class analysis, Matthew T. As such, it will take a class struggle to solve.
For an alternative strategy, he proposes climate politics that appeals to the vast majority of society: the working class. 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. 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