As Climate Crisis Worsens, the Case for Eco-socialism Strengthens

An excellent and concrete strategic presentation to address our ecological crises by South African ecosocialist Patrick Bond. It is long and deep, but worth a read. Bond takes on the contradiction between the dystopian and bureaucratic technofixes of the ecomodernists and the social change praxis of climate activists, ecofeminists and ecosocialists and proposes a strategic conception that synthesizes certain elements of the former within the latter framework. In so doing he seeks to transcend market-based strategies such as carbon taxes and the like which are meant to provide a green cover for continued despoliation of the ecosphere.

https://www.cadtm.org/As-Climate-Crisis-Worsens-the-Case-for-Eco-socialism-Strengthens

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