SCNCC Perspective

How Can We Prevent Climate Catastrophe?

Phil Gasper, International Socialist Review, March 1, 2019

It’s not hyperbole to say that the accelerating climate emergency, which is getting closer to spiraling out of control, is the most serious crisis that humanity has faced in its entire history. Two reports came out at the end of 2018 that ought to have put aside any doubt that we are facing an existential crisis that threatens the continued survival of advanced human societies and possibly even our continued existence as a species.

One, Two, … Many Green New Deals: An Ecosocialist Roundtable

Carol Dansereau, John Foran, Ted Franklin, Brad Hornick, Sandra Lindberg, Jennifer Scarlott, resilience.org, February 26, 2019

Introduction by John Foran

The Green New Deal -- An Ecosocialist Study Guide

Ted Franklin, System Change Not Climate Change, January 30, 2019

Sunrise Movement "Dear Democrats - Step Up or Step Aside"

(Updated March 6, 2019)

Opportunities and Challenges Posed by the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) Protests and the Sunrise Movement

Kamran Nayeri, Our Place in the World: A Journal of Ecosocialism, January 5, 2019

Yellow Vest demonstration in Belfort, France

The Crisis of Civilization and How to Resolve It: An Introduction to Ecocentric Socialism

Kamran Nayeri, Our Place in the World: A Journal of Ecosociaism, January 5, 2019

The following is a slightly edited text of a presentation by Kamran Nayeri to the Revolutionary University conference in Berkeley, California, Saturday, October 13.

A Marxist Feminist Ecosocialist View of a Financial Times Video about Climate Change and Migration

Sandra Lindberg, System Change Not Climate Change, December 21, 2018

Screenshot from Financial Times Video on Climate and Migration

No Ph.D. talking here. Just a woman who reads and studies, as Marxists recommend. I’m disturbed by a video just accessed on YouTube: “Climate change and the migrant caravan.” The news piece suggests that sympathetic and enlightened attitudes lie behind the video’s creation. Applying Marxist and socialist concepts, I hope to expose some of the assumptions, misconceptions and perhaps hidden goals contained in the video.

The Green New Deal Goes Viral: What’s Next Is Up to Us

Ted Franklin, System Change Not Climate Change, December 6, 2018

Sunrise Movement in the Halls of Congress

Climate activists must seize the time and get to work on the Green New Deal proposal.

An Ecosocialist Path to Limiting Global Temperature Rise to 1.5°C

Richard Smith, Real World Economics Review (forthcoming March 1, 2019), November 26, 2018

The wildfire that wiped out Paradise, California.

Richard Smith argues for an emergency plan to meet the climate emergency and "do what the science demands before it's too late." This is an abridged version of a paper that will appear in the March 1, 2019 special issue of Real-World Economics Review.[1]

Climate and the Infernal Blue Wave: Straight Talk About Saving Humanity

Carol Dansereau, Counterpunch, November 13, 2018

Let me tell you about why I woke up crying today. It has to do with just how close we are to full-blown climate disaster. I was thinking about children who are already experiencing the horrible consequences of global warming, and I was thinking about particular children I love and what’s in store for them. Most of all, I was thinking about the unthinkable: that we are on the verge of ensuring that most, if not all, life on Earth will be snuffed out.

Capitalism, the Climate Crisis, and Ecosocialist Solutions

David Klein, change-links.org, October 30, 2018

The climate crisis is the greatest threat humanity has ever faced. At the current rate of greenhouse gas emissions, we are headed for 4°C to 7°C of warming above pre-industrial global averages within the lifetimes of young people. Temperature increases in this range would lead to a hothouse planet with devastating extreme weather events, and make most if not all of our planet uninhabitable.

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