DSA Ecosocialist Resources

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==== Ecosocialism ====

  * Mark Schaeffer, [[https://www.dsausa.org/capitalism_socialism_and_sustainability|“Capitalism, Socialism, and Sustainability”]] (DSA resource)
  * Hans Baer, [[https://thenextsystem.org/toward-democratic-eco-socialism-as-the-next-world-system|"Toward Democratic Ecosocialism as the Next World System"]]
  * Phil Gasper, [[gasper-cc|How can we prevent climate catastrophe?]]
  * Michael Löwy et al., [[https://climateandcapitalism.com/2018/12/19/why-ecosocialism-a-discussion-of-the-case-for-a-red-green-future/|”Why Ecosocialism? The Case for a Red-Green Future”]]
  * Ashley Dawson, [[https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3516-the-year-of-environmental-disaster|“2017: The Year of Environmental Disaster”]]

==== Marx/ism and nature ====

  *[[https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4141-capitalism-s-organic-crisis|"Capitalism's Organic Crisis"]] by Ashley Dawson
  *[[https://marxistsociology.org/2019/02/climate-and-contradiction-in-marxs-theory-of-history/|“Climate and Contradiction in Marx’s Theory of History”]] by Matt Huber

==== Environmental and Climate Justice ====

  * Ibram X. Kendi, [[kendi-denial|What Climate Believers Are Denying]]
  * Vijay Prashad, [[https://www.thetricontinental.org/newsletterissue/tomorrow-will-be-too-late-to-do-what-we-should-have-done-a-long-time-ago-the-thirty-third-newsletter-2018/|On 'Disaster Socialism' in Cuba and Kerala]]
  * Jeff Goodell, [[https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-damage-722570/|How Climate Change and Wall Street Almost Killed Puerto Rico]]
  * Françoise Vèrges, [[http://bit.ly/fverges|"Racial Capitalocene,"]] //Futures of Black Radicalism// (Verso, 2017)
  * Interview with Raj Patel, [[http://kalw.org/post/one-planet-capitalism-nature-and-future-planet#stream/0|"One Planet: Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet"]]


==== Environmental History and Capitalism ====

  * Ashley Dawson, [[https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4141-capitalism-s-organic-crisis|“Capitalism’s Organic Crisis”]]
  * Benjamin Kunkel, [[https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n05/benjamin-kunkel/the-capitalocene|"The Capitalocene"]]

==== Mutual Aid, Cities, Disaster Recovery ====

  * Pirani, [[https://theecologist.org/2018/oct/05/we-need-talk-about-technology-argues-simon-pirani|We Need to Talk About Technology]] - on architecture, electricity, and urban struggles
  * Dawson et al., [[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/20/bill-de-blasio-energy-plan-green|De Blasio's Energy Plan Isn't as Green as it Looks]]

==== Policy/Reform/Strategy ====

  * Treat, [[http://aidc.org.za/what-ever-happened-to-the-energy-transition/|”What Ever Happened to the Energy Transition?”]]
  * Riofrancos, [[http://inthesetimes.com/article/21939/climate-democratic-debate-sanders-harris-biden-buttigieg-warren-inslee|”Democratic Debates Showcased Most Dangerous Form of Climate Denial”]]
  * Howie Hawkins, [[https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/05/17/does-the-climate-movement-really-mean-what-it-says/|”Does the Climate Movement Really Mean What it Says?”]]
  * Jem Bendell on [[bendell|Deep Adaptation]]
  * [[https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/10/cars-jobs-climate-change-auto-industry-ford-gm-lucas-aerospace-alternative-production/|Can Autoworkers Save the Climate?]] By Lars Henriksson
  * [[https://truthout.org/articles/a-farewell-to-glaciers-coral-reefs-and-rainforests/|To Take Down Fossil Fuels, Abandon Capitalism]] - Dahr Jamail interview
  * [[https://jacobinmag.com/2017/04/climate-change-cop21-tax-dividend-cap-trade-emissions-capitalism/|"The Right's Green Awakening"]] by Daniel Tanuro
  * [[https://communemag.com/the-uses-of-disaster/|The Uses of Disaster]] //Commune// Fall 2018
  * TUED: [[http://unionsforenergydemocracy.org/resources/when-green-doesnt-grow/|When 'Green' Doesn't 'Grow': Facing Up to the Failures of Profit-Driven Climate Policy]]
  * [[https://www.eastbaydsa.org/news/2018/11/19/deadly-wildfires-prove-we-must-nationalize-pge|East Bay DSA Statement on Deadly Wildfires and Utilities Nationalization]] November 2018
  * [[http://jacobinmag.com/2017/09/hurricane-harvey-irma-global-warming-the-dig|“The Ecological Is Political”]] Kate Aronoff interview - //Jacobin// 9/16/17
  * Interview with Nancy Romer, [[https://youtu.be/YVPlWvOZGeQ|"How the Divestment Movement Won in NYC"]]
  * Aaron Vansintjan, [[http://unevenearth.org/2018/01/why-the-left-needs-elinor-ostrom/|"Why the Left Needs Elinor Ostrom"]]
  * Alyssa Battistoni, [[https://www.thenation.com/article/climate-change-david-wallace-wells-nathaniel-rich-the-uninhabitable-earth-losing-earth-book-review/|Everything to Lose]] - review of //Losing Earth// and //The Uninhabitable Earth//
  * [[rich-critiques|More critical responses to "Losing Earth"]] //[[https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/01/magazine/climate-change-losing-earth.html|New York Times]]//, 8/1/18
  * Giorgios Kallis, [[kallis-utop|Degrowth and utopianism]]
  * Vijay Kolinjivadi, [[https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/hipster-vegan-green-tech-economy-sustainable-190605105120654.html|Why a hipster, vegan, green tech economy is not sustainable]]



==== Imperialism, Extraction, and the Global South ====

  * Adam Tooze, [[https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/12/20/rising-tides-will-sink-global-order-climate-change/|”Rising Tides Will Sink Global Order”]]
  * Alfred McCoy, [[http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176533/tomgram%3A_alfred_mccoy%2C_climate_change_as_the_end_game_for_u.s._global_power/|How Climate Change Could End Washington’s Global Dominion]]

==== Agriculture and Food Justice ====

  * North African Network for Food Sovereignty, [[http://bit.ly/NAfrFood|"Food Sovereignty Is a Right"]] (2017)
  * Audrea Lim, [[https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/05/farm-land-cooperation-jackson-environmental-sustainability|"How the GND Can Deliver Land Justice"]]
  * Sue Sunhee Volz, [[https://www.the-trouble.com/content/2019/4/26/in0ipnptnhqqbot1zvqv6ubfnrculh|"It Begins With the Land"]]
  * North African Network for Food Sovereignty, [[http://bit.ly/NAfrFood|"Food Sovereignty Is a Right"]] (2017)
  * Justin Theoda, [[http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/43147-it-s-time-to-confront-the-scourge-of-advertising-in-the-capitalist-food-system|"It's Time to Confront the Scourge of Capitalism in the Food System"]] (2017)
  * Interview with Karen Washington, [[https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/may/15/food-apartheid-food-deserts-racism-inequality-america-karen-washington-interview|"Food Apartheid: The Problem with America's Groceries"]]
  * Colin Todhunter, [[https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/05/18/dangerous-liaison-industrial-agriculture-and-the-reductionist-mindset/|"Dangerous Liaison: Industrial Agriculture and the Reductionist Mindset"]]
  * Crazy Town podcast, [[https://www.resilience.org/stories/2019-05-20/my-dinner-is-stuck-in-traffic-saving-fuel-for-the-farm-episode-11-of-crazy-town/|My dinner is stuck in traffic]]

==== Climate Science / The Anthropocene ====

  * Heather Davis and Zoe Todd, [[davis-todd|“On the Importance of a Date, or Decolonizing the Anthropocene”]]
  * Troy Vettese, [[https://socialistproject.ca/2019/01/the-political-economy-of-half-earth/|"The Political Economy of Half-Earth"]]
  * Richard Seymour, [[seymour-hell|"Hell Is Coming"]]
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