As global temperatures rise, and polar bears continue to drown due to melting arctic ice, there has emerged a growing chorus of voices crying out to save the planet. Yet the harsh reality ignored by pundits and policy makers is that capitalism stands as the most intractable obstacle in the way of the changes that could avert ecological devastation.

Consciousness of the threat to our environment is growing, yet he majority of solutions on offer, from using efficient light bulbs to biking to work, focus on individual lifestyle changes, yet the scale of the crisis requires far deeper changes. Time still remains to save the planet, but only by building social movements for environmental justice that can demand qualitative changes.


PRAISE:

“Ecology and Socialism exposes the real roots of the ecological crisis: a global economic and social system that always puts profits before people. This book is more than essential reading – it is apowerful weapon in the fight to save our planet.”

Ian Angus, editor climateandcapitalism.com


“Finally, a book that bridges the best of the scholarly and activist literatures in socialist ecology! Sophisticated and compelling, eschewing academic jargons ‘post-modern’ and otherwise, Ecology and Socialism more than competently champions a Marxist approach to environmental crisis and the kind of economic democracy needed to achieve an ecologically friendly system of production and human development.”

Paul Burkett, author of Marx and Nature: A Red and Green Perspective