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Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet

Matthew T. Huber
3.98/5 (376 ratings)
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Why the struggle against climate change is a class struggle

The climate crisis is not primarily a problem of ‘believing science’ or individual ‘carbon footprints’—it is a class problem rooted in who owns, controls and profits from material production. As such, it will take a class struggle to solve.

In this groundbreaking class analysis, Matthew T. Huber argues that the carbon-intensive capitalist class must be confronted for producing climate change. Yet, the narrow and unpopular roots of climate politics in the professional class is not capable of building a movement to face this challenge. For an alternative strategy, he proposes climate politics that will appeal to the vast majority of society: the working-class. Huber evaluates the Green New Deal as a first attempt to channel working class material and ecological interests and advocates building union power in the very energy system we so need to dramatically transform. In the end, as in classical socialist movements of the early twentieth Century, winning the climate struggle will require an internationalist approach based on a form of planetary working class solidarity.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
320 pages
Publication:
2022
Publisher:
Verso
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1788733886
ISBN13:
9781788733885
kindle Asin:
B09CCPGGSD

Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet

Matthew T. Huber
3.98/5 (376 ratings)
Read Download
Why the struggle against climate change is a class struggle

The climate crisis is not primarily a problem of ‘believing science’ or individual ‘carbon footprints’—it is a class problem rooted in who owns, controls and profits from material production. As such, it will take a class struggle to solve.

In this groundbreaking class analysis, Matthew T. Huber argues that the carbon-intensive capitalist class must be confronted for producing climate change. Yet, the narrow and unpopular roots of climate politics in the professional class is not capable of building a movement to face this challenge. For an alternative strategy, he proposes climate politics that will appeal to the vast majority of society: the working-class. Huber evaluates the Green New Deal as a first attempt to channel working class material and ecological interests and advocates building union power in the very energy system we so need to dramatically transform. In the end, as in classical socialist movements of the early twentieth Century, winning the climate struggle will require an internationalist approach based on a form of planetary working class solidarity.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
320 pages
Publication:
2022
Publisher:
Verso
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1788733886
ISBN13:
9781788733885
kindle Asin:
B09CCPGGSD

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