This book's authors won't stand any longer for the immense chasm between the scientific consensus pointing towards dire outcomes and the lack of concerted official action to prevent them. It's time, they argue, for us to take that action ourselves.
We need a mass movement to ensure a just transition and prevent climate breakdown. But Vincent Bevins' book about the 2010s shows such contestations can go very wrong.
"If everyone could see what I see coming," said one scientist, "society would switch into climate emergency mode and end fossil fuels in just a few years."
With an organizational dearth and in a context dominated by misguided and/or haphazard politics by the mainstream left, what can be done?
Since the end of the feudal era the world order has been largely structured by the nation-state system. Individuals have been willing to kill and die for their countries. The pursuit of individual and collective interests has occurred largely within...
The 21st century is a century of crisis. Capitalist economic collapse dovetails with dire inequality, international and civil wars drive displacement and humanitarian catastrophe, xenophobia creeps into laws, and rising biodiversity loss imperils...
It all started, in typical Zapatista fashion, with the publication of four new communiqués signed by Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano (formerly known as Marcos) between August 10 and 15. The first one, titled Enter el telonero (“The Opening Act”)...
