@therightarticle

Quoting Dan Hind in @openDemocracy

“But a 2024 @UKLabour govt committed to the #Blair-#Thatcher status quo, which refuses to meet the #UK’s accumulating crises with a programme equal to it, will only aid a nativist and authoritarian #Right that offers its own, hallucinatory solutions.

Our likely trajectory, absent fundamental reform, is one that discredits the centre-left in government and empowers the extreme right in opposition.

In these circumstances, our best option at the next general election must be a mobilisation that puts as many ecosocialists and sincere left Keynesians into Parliament as possible. Our priority should be to maximise the number of MPs willing to argue for replacing Thatcherism with a new green and democratic settlement.

Once we grasp that, the question then becomes technical: how?”

[..]

“If we can create the means for voters to communicate among ourselves in pursuit of our shared interests, if we then act with some fraction of the right’s energy and daring, with some fraction of their budget, we can begin to create a new economic and political settlement before the old impoverishes and demoralises even more of us. If we wait meekly for a #Starmer landslide, we will get nothing, and deserve less”

#LabourLies #StopStarmer #RedTory #EcoSocialism #Election2024

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/keir-starmer-labour-general-election-2024-need-radical-change-green-left/

Jason Hickel explains how capitalism have brought us to our current double crisis, an ecological and a social crisis. He also explain a way to solve this and how to secure a suffiencient future for all.

https://monthlyreview.org/2023/09/01/the-double-objective-of-democratic-ecosocialism/?fbclid=IwAR0NYhV_JDVAPbanp7-yoe3kbppgI_FC5KN2uG3f8ycquOWqfZcbhY80OXI

#climateChange #biodiversity #ecosocialism #Degrowth

Now that's a truly SOCIALIST & LEFT political program for the 21st century. Unfortunately, most of the pseudo left commentariat and political forces are only interested in discussing the sex of angels while the world burns and capitalism provokes greater depression worldwide.

#Ecosocialism #AnarchoCommunism #PublicGoods #Capitalism #Environmentalism: "Kropotkin’s argument stands today. It would not take much, as a share of total global productive capacity, to ensure decent lives for everyone on the planet. But with the reality of the ecological crisis, we must also face a second challenge, one that Kropotkin could not appreciate in the nineteenth century: to achieve well-being for all while at the same time reducing aggregate use of energy and materials (specifically in the core) to enable sufficiently rapid decarbonization and to bring the world economy back within planetary boundaries. Technological innovation and efficiency improvements are crucial to this, but high-income countries also need to scale down less-necessary forms of production in order to reduce excess energy and material use directly.

If capitalism has always been unable to achieve the former goal (well-being for all), it most certainly cannot achieve the latter. It is a structural impossibility, as it runs against the core logic of the capitalist economy, which is to increase aggregate production indefinitely, to maintain the conditions for perpetual accumulation.

It is clear what needs to be done: we must achieve democratic control over finance and production, as Kropotkin argued, and now organize it around the double goal of well-being and ecology. This requires that we distinguish, as Kropotkin did, between the socially necessary production that clearly needs to increase for social progress, and the destructive and less-necessary forms of production that urgently need to be scaled down. This is the revolutionary world-historical objective that faces our generation."

https://monthlyreview.org/2023/09/01/the-double-objective-of-democratic-ecosocialism/

Climate-changing human activity could lead to 1 billion deaths over the next century, according to new study

"If global warming reaches or exceeds two degrees Celsius by 2100, University of Western Ontario's Joshua Pearce says it is likely that mainly richer humans will be responsible for the death of roughly one billion mainly poorer humans over the next century."

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-climate-changing-human-billion-deaths-century.html

#climatechange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice #systemchange #ecosocialism @SRTurtleIsland

@therightarticle

Fundamentally we need to be far more radical in order to seriously tackle the #ClimateEmergency! For me that means some form of #EcoSocialism!

Probably unrealistic given the overweening power of neoliberal ideology … but, frankly, without some huge societal change, imo we’re f#cked!

“Ecosocialism aims to create an ‘ecologically rational society founded on democratic control, social equality, and the predominance of use value” (p. 7).

In this society, there will be collective ownership of the means of production, democratic planning where society makes decisions about investment and production, and a new structure of productive forces.

Ecosocialism rests on two essential arguments. First, that ‘the present mode of production and consumption of advanced capitalist countries … cannot in any way be extended to the whole planet without a major ecological crisis’ (p. 7). Second, that ‘the continuation of capitalist ‘progress’ … directly threatens … the very survival of the human species’ (p. 8).”

https://www.radicalinprogress.org/lowy-2015-summary-part-2

New #ecosocialism #DSA caucus just dropped:

discussion (log in w/ your DSA-related email): https://discussion.dsausa.org/t/introducing-a-new-national-degrowth-ecosocialist-caucus-caracol-dsa/26889

points of unity: https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vR-PVR0iW3jvLg3lN9G6zAK4HgMzz3qPpPxAtGUkPX-kpeIyYyP8z2MirtMNr5QUFKLSAug7s_tIKP0/pub

application form: https://forms.gle/RuhbNWErq6yvHUrW7

#socialism #ecosocialists #DemocraticSocialistsOfAmerica

Hey #Bookstodon, We're putting together an #ecosocialism (or nonfiction #solarpunk) reading list - any suggestions?

The AMOC: tipping this century, or not?

https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2023/08/the-amoc-tipping-this-century-or-not/

Speaking of shorebirds in the North Atlantic, a collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation would result in the extinction of many species and collapse of coastal ecosystems (and their functions and services).

"An AMOC collapse would be a massive, planetary-scale disaster. Some of the consequences: Cooling and increased storminess in northwestern Europe, major additional sea level rise especially along the American Atlantic coast, a southward shift of tropical rainfall belts (causing drought in some regions and flooding in others), reduced ocean carbon dioxide uptake, greatly reduced oxygen supply to the deep ocean, likely ecosystem collapse in the northern Atlantic, and others."

Stay tuned, September 15-17: https://fightfossilfuels.net/

For those in NYC or who can make it, a week of actions culminating in a mass march on 9/17 and a mass direct action on 9/18: https://www.acttoendfossilfuels.org/

#climatechange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice #biodiversitycrisis #extinctioncrisis #ecosocialism #cambioclimatico @ScientistRebellion #birds

YASunidos: Ecuadorian Authorities Thwart National Referendum on Yasuní-ITT through Fraud and Militarization

Illustrates the point that under capitalism, it is impossible to attain lasting reforms, much last structural transformation. Anything achieved is accomplished under the impetus of social movement, but with the ruling wealthy and their politicians pushing back, such reforms only last as long as the balance of social forces favors working people and our movements. In the U.S., the two dominant political parties play their electoral games, promising the sun, electioneering, horsetrading, triangulating, while remaining within the parameters of capital's need for profits and intrinsic growth dynamic. There is no "lesser evil," just nuances of greater evil. The battles never end. It's time for our "Kobayashi Maru."

https://www.foei.org/yasunidos-ecuadorian-authorities-thwart-national-referendum-on-yasuni-itt-through-fraud-and-militarization/

#climatechange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice #biodiversitycrisis #extinctioncrisis #ecosocialism #fossilfuels #indigenousrights #democracy #cambioclimatico #Ecuador @ScientistRebellion

People Before Profit Galway welcomes cancellation of plans for Tynagh gas plant

"Denman Rooke, candidate for Galway City East, said the science behind addressing future climate change shows us that we have to leave a majority of known fossil fuel reserves in the ground."

https://www.galwaydaily.com/news/pbp-galway-welcomes-cancellation-of-plans-for-tynagh-gas-plant/

#PeopleBeforeProfit #PlanetBeforeProfit #PBP #EcoSocialism #ClimateAction

Intro Post! 👋

Lefty panicking about #climatechange and #biodiversity loss due to #capitalism 💰

Proponent of #rewilding #renewables #degrowth and #ecosocialism 🌳

Member and active supporter of the #LGBTQ community 🌈

🤜 fascists, ✂️ billionaires, 🛡️ the vulnerable, stand with workers.

Studying and lecturing at #UCC with a focus on #Medieval Ireland and Celtic mythology 📚

If you think rich people's carbon emissions are bad, wait until you hear about the capitalist mode of production!

#ecosocialism #communism #marxism #socialism #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange

I'm a human being, not a human doing.

74 years and counting on this beat up and much abused twirling mudball we share with the only life there is in the Universe(s), as far as we know.

Let's save some of it!

No Fucking compromise in Defense of Mother Earth!

#EarthFirst! #RadicalEnvironmentalism #Ecocentrism #DeepEcology #GreenAnarchism #Ecosocialism #Withway #Taoism #Zen

Democratic #ecosocialism serves a double objective: https://realprogressives.org/podcast_episode/episode-236-the-double-objective-of-democratic-ecosocialism-with-jason-hickel/ with @jasonhickel #solarpunk #CapitalismIsADeathCult

Little reminder about my two main accounts:

💚 This account @samsterby is for #politics including: #transport, #cycling, #activeTravel, #trains, #HS2, #ecosocialism, #GreenParty / #gpew, and that kind of thing.

👋 My other account @sam is for general life, #parenting, #music, #tech, #iosDev, #grumblingAboutWork, stuff.

Doesn’t always work out cleanly but that’s the general idea 👍

Little reminder about my two main accounts:

👋 This account @sam is for general life, #parenting, #music, #tech, #iosDev, #grumblingAboutWork, stuff.

💚 I am also @samsterby for #politics including: #transport, #cycling, #activeTravel, #trains, #HS2, #ecosocialism, #GreenParty / #gpew, and that kind of thing.

Doesn’t always work out cleanly but that’s the general idea 👍

Interested in the #Degrowth vs #GreenCapitalism #GreenGrowth #GreenNewDeal debate? Then you should read Jorge Riechmann's short essay that's just been published in Resilience.org: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2023-08-10/ecological-transitions-and-energy-transitions/ #EnergyTransition #Collapse #LimitsToGrowth #PostGrowth #Ecosocialism

A truly great (and not too long) podcast series on what's wrong with especially Western societies and how to fix things. Highly recommended! #ClimateCrisis #EcologicalCrisis #democracy #degrowth #regenerativeagriculture #SystemsThinking #ecosocialism #commons
The Water We Swim In https://shows.acast.com/the-water-we-swim-in/episodes/trailer via @acast

Remember Half Earth Socialism?
The book and also the fun game you can play at https://play.half.earth/

This is a very thought provoking #podcast on this form of #EcoSocialism and its vision of a positive future for humanity.

Worth listening (and reading) (and playing)

https://pca.st/episode/afff2ac7-d003-431f-81bb-352157381960

Yippee! This just arrived #degrowth #ecosocialism