Ecosocialism

Public transit for people, not profit

11/01/23

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Vancouver Ecosocialist Group

Jan. 11, 2023

Everyone conscious of the problem of global warming understands that we must have fewer private cars on our streets. By lowering the cost of public transit (and ultimately to make it free) and increasing its accessibility, more riders will be attracted to it. Why can’t we have more buses and trains coming to more stops in neighbourhoods? Why can’t we make transit more affordable for people of lower income? Providing more public transit for less would be a step toward climate rationality and justice.

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The Ecosocialist Project: Climate Changes Everything

15/12/22

Author:

Jonathan Neale

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System Change not Climate Change

Nov. 28, 2022

Ecosocialism in the age of climate change needs to stop being a niche, an abstract ideological program, and turn into a concrete, practical, non-dogmatic plan for the future.

We need to make some serious changes in the ecosocialist project.

It’s good that we have the idea of ecosocialism. Because the words stand for a basic idea that ecology and socialism go together. Linked, they are the hope of the world.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Luisa Cáceres: Commune-Building in Urban Venezuela

12/12/22

Author:

Chris Gilbert

Link:

Monthly Review

Luisa Cáceres communards assembled beside communal mural. (Photo: Gerardo Rojas/Voces Urgentes)

Dec 01, 2022

Chris Gilbert is a professor of political science at the Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela, and the creator and co-host of the Marxist educational television program Escuela de Cuadros. This article is adapted from his upcoming book, Commune or Nothing!: Venezuela’s Communal Movement and Its Socialist Project (Monthly Review Press, 2023).

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Virtual launch of David Camfield's Future on Fire: Capitalism and the Politics of Climate Change.

06/12/22

Author:

McNally Robinson Online Events

Link:

You Tube

Virtual launch of David Camfield's Future on Fire: Capitalism and the Politics of Climate Change.

Streamed live on Oct 22, 2022

The virtual Canadian launch of Future on Fire: Capitalism and the Politics of Climate Change by David Camfield. This event moderated by Fiona Jeffries and includes conversation and words from Sara Birrell, James Hutt, and Saima Desai. This event is co-hosted by McNally Robinson Booksellers and Fernwood Publishing.

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A critique of degrowth

29/11/22

Author:

David Schwartzman

Link:

Climate and Capitalism

Ecosocialist responses to “degrowth” analysis and proposals have ranged from full support to total rejection. The author of the following critical commentary is an emeritus professor of biology at Howard University, and co-author of The Earth is Not for Sale (World Scientific, 2019). We encourage respectful responses in the comments, and hope to publish other views in future.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Who Holds Up Half the Earth? - Book Review of 'Half-Earth Socialism'

14/11/22

Author:

Alex James and Neil Johnson

Link:

Cosmonaut

Promotional graphic for ‘Half-Earth Socialism.’

Though the text being reviewed here is being negatively evaluated, I find it useful to see the list of categories being used by the reviewers. Not being much of a consumer of theoretical and scholastic writings, I had no such list before reading this. Perhaps others might find this useful. Gene McGuckin

Oct. 28, 2022

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Climate Crisis Speeds Up, Revolution Only Solution

14/11/22

Author:

Daniel Tanuro

Link:

The Bullet

Nov. 11, 2022

November 11, 2022

Global warming, extreme severity of drought in Europe, heatwaves, snowball effect (or cascading reactions) among all these crisis factors… Risk of sudden changes in ocean circulation with incalculable consequences… This article addresses three points: the explanation of this incontestable observation, the possible evolution, and the policies to be implemented.

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COP27: Oxfam Sizes Up a Single Billionaire’s Investment Emissions

09/11/22

Author:

Jessica Corbett

Link:

Common Dreams

As the U.N. annual climate gathering is underway in Egypt, Oxfam spotlights the role of big corporates and their rich investors in driving the global climate crisis.

With the United Nations Climate Change Conference underway in Egypt, Oxfam on Monday released a report highlighting how billionaires’ investments produce massive amounts of planet-heating emissions that must be reined in to ensure a habitable planet.

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An open letter to Anjali and Dogwood

01/11/22

Author:

Vancouver Ecosocialist Group

November 1, 2022

As current, former and never members of the NDP, the Vancouver Ecosocialist Group [VESG] congratulates you for your recent efforts to make the NDP a vehicle to struggle against the crisis of the earth system. Not only did you demonstrate that a movement is essential if we are to stop the madness of business and growth as usual, but you exposed dramatically how distant the NDP leadership is from acting with the speed and scale necessary today.

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The case for Corbynism [Socialism] has never been stronger

21/10/22

Author:

Jack Toker, Annie Hill and John Hayes - Letters

Link:

The Guardian

Twitter from Jeremy Corbyn:

Thanks to everyone who has written in support of my @guardian piece urging radical change. I must make one correction: it’s not about Corbynism. It’s about socialism. The fight for a kinder society is a collective struggle: we owe it to each other to win.

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Ecosocialism

Ecosocialism in the age of climate change needs to stop being a niche, an abstract ideological program, and turn into a concrete, practical, non-dogmatic plan for the future.

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