Eco-Socialism For Now and the Future
ISBN:
978-3-03-005182-2
Auflage:
1st ed. 2019
Verlag:
Springer International Publishing
Land des Verlags:
Schweiz
Erscheinungsdatum:
06.05.2019
Reihe:
Palgrave Insights into Apocalypse Economics
Format:
Hardcover
Seitenanzahl:
132
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It is increasingly apparent that capitalism cannot stave off the truly frightening ecological disasters that threaten the future of life on earth. Is it an accident that the strongest and most capitalist economic force in the world, the US, is also that force that is most prone to the denial of the enormous dangers of global warming? While capitalism is a global force, it is not supported by the majority of the world, and much more thought and action is needed to integrate and globalize movements against oppression, injustice and ecological destruction.
While changes at a local level are important and more feasible in our current world, ultimately changes at a global level may have greater long-term importance, and we need to greatly expand theorizations and mobilizations in this direction now. Robert Albritton proposes 'practical utopias' as a process of thinking by which short-term changes tend in the direction of desirable changes in the longterm.
While changes at a local level are important and more feasible in our current world, ultimately changes at a global level may have greater long-term importance, and we need to greatly expand theorizations and mobilizations in this direction now. Robert Albritton proposes 'practical utopias' as a process of thinking by which short-term changes tend in the direction of desirable changes in the longterm.
Schlagwörter
Capitalism
United Nations
Ecological economics
Natural resource economics
Resource scarcity
Climate change economics
Ecojustice
Apocalypse economics
Economics of globalization
Eco-socialism
Possessive individualism
Economics of neoliberalism
Sustainability and economics
Political economy of global warming
Biografische Anmerkung
Robert Albritton is Professor Emeritus at York University, Toronto, Canada. His research focuses on capitalist theory and political economy.