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Climate change as class war

Climate change as class war
building socialism on a warming planet

  • ISBN: 9781788733885
  • Editorial: Verso Books
  • Lugar de la edición: London. Reino Unido
  • Encuadernación: Rústica
  • Medidas: 22 cm
  • Nº Pág.: 288
  • Idiomas: Inglés

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Resumen

The 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. As such, it will take a class struggle to solve. In this ground breaking class analysis, Matthew T. 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. For an alternative strategy, he proposes climate politics that appeals to the vast majority of society: the working class. 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 very energy system we so need to dramatically transform. In the end, as in classical socialist movements of the early 20th Century, winning the climate struggle will need to be internationalist based on a form of planetary working class solidarity.

Introduction : Climate change as class war
I. The capitalist class
1. The hidden abode of the climate crisis: industrial capital and climate responsibility
2. Carbon exploitation: how the nitrogen cycle became fossil capital
II. The professional class
3. Credentialed politics: knowing the climate crisis
4. Carbon guilt: privatized ecologies, degrowth, and the politics of less
III. The working class
5. Proletarian ecology: working class interests and the struggle for a Green New Deal
6. Electrifying the climate movement: the case for electricity as a strategic sector
7. Power in the union: history and strategy in the electric utility unions
Conclusion: Species solidarity at the climate crossroads.

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