DSA Ecosocialist Resources

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==== Ecosocialism ====

  * Pirani, [[https://thisishell.com/episodes/1064|The system that's warming the globe won't stop global warming]] (podcast)
  * Gracie Brett (Boston DSA), [[https://bostonpewg.org/2019/07/10/the-case-for-ecosocialism-polluting-plutocracy-vs-prosperity/amp/|"The Case for Ecosocialism: Polluting Plutocracy vs. Prosperity"]]
  * 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”]]

==== Marxism, Nature, and Political Economy ====

  * Ashley Dawson, [[https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4141-capitalism-s-organic-crisis|"Capitalism's Organic Crisis"]]
  * Matt Huber, [[https://marxistsociology.org/2019/02/climate-and-contradiction-in-marxs-theory-of-history/|“Climate and Contradiction in Marx’s Theory of History”]]
  * Adam Tooze, [[https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/07/20/why-central-banks-need-to-step-up-on-global-warming/|"Why Central Banks Need to Step Up on Global Warming"]]
  * Robinson Meyer, [[https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/08/how-fed-could-fight-climate-change-adam-tooze/595084/|"How Climate Change Could Trigger the Next Global Financial Crisis"]]

==== 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)
  * Raj Patel (interview), [[http://kalw.org/post/one-planet-capitalism-nature-and-future-planet#stream/0|"One Planet: Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet"]]
  * Matt Simon, [[https://www.wired.com/story/the-bizarre-peaty-science-of-arctic-wildfires/|"The Bizarre, Peaty Science of Arctic Wildfires"]]


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

  * Moore, [[https://www.academia.edu/39776872/The_Capitalocene_and_Planetary_Justice|"The Capitalocene and Planetary Justice"]]
  * 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"]]
  * Haraway and Tsing, [[http://edgeeffects.net/haraway-tsing-plantationocene/|”Reflections on the Plantationocene”]]


==== Cities, Public Power, Infrastructure ====

  * David Company, [[https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/life-in-miami-on-the-knifes-edge-of-climate-change-anastasia-samoylova|"Life in Miami on the Knife's Edge of Climate Change"]]
  * Richard Westra, [[https://socialistproject.ca/2019/08/green-designs-for-21st-century-socialism/|"Green Designs for 21st Century Socialism"]]
  * James Angel, [[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/anti.12289|"Berlin's Struggle for Energy Democracy"]]
  * Wojciech Keblowski, [[https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/08/public-transportation-brussels-free-tickets|"Public Transit Can Be Free"]]
  * Simon 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
  * Ashley 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 ====

  * [[https://www.labor4sustainability.org/articles/the-third-national-labor-convergence-on-climate-chicago-june-28-23-2019/|Labor Network for Sustainability: The Third National Labor Convergence on Climate]]
  * Sandra Lindberg, [[lindberg-emerg|“Climate Emergencies Guarantee Nothing...”]]
  * Feffer, [[http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176591/tomgram%3A_john_feffer%2C_how_to_decide_the_fate_of_the_planet/|"Lifeboat Earth: Is China or the Green New Deal the Answer to Climate Change?"]]
  * Mann and Wainwright, [[https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/political-scenarios-for-climate-disaster|Political Scenarios for Climate Disaster]]
  * The Democracy Collaborative, //[[https://democracycollaborative.org/sites/clone.community-wealth.org/files/downloads/GreenInfrastructure_Web.pdf|Building Resiliency Through Green Infrastructure]]//
  * Bob Massie, [[https://www.thenation.com/article/green-new-deal-unions/|Unions Are Finally Learning to Love the Green New Deal]]
  * John Treat, [[http://aidc.org.za/what-ever-happened-to-the-energy-transition/|”What Ever Happened to the Energy Transition?”]]
  * Thea 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]]
  * Lars Henriksson, [[https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/10/cars-jobs-climate-change-auto-industry-ford-gm-lucas-aerospace-alternative-production/|Can Autoworkers Save the Climate?]]
  * Dahr Jamail (interview), [[https://truthout.org/articles/a-farewell-to-glaciers-coral-reefs-and-rainforests/|To Take Down Fossil Fuels, Abandon Capitalism]]
  * Daniel Tanuro, [[https://jacobinmag.com/2017/04/climate-change-cop21-tax-dividend-cap-trade-emissions-capitalism/|"The Right's Green Awakening"]]
  * [[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
  * Kate Aropnoff (interview), [[http://jacobinmag.com/2017/09/hurricane-harvey-irma-global-warming-the-dig|“The Ecological Is Political”]]
  * Nancy Romer (interview), [[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 ====

  * [[https://www.boell.de/sites/default/files/radical_realism_for_climate_justice_volume_44_6_1.pdf|La Via Campesina in Action for Climate Justice]]
  * Alexander Zaitchik, [[https://theintercept.com/2019/07/06/brazil-amazon-rainforest-indigenous-conservation-agribusiness-ranching/|"Rainforest on Fire: On the Front Lines in the Amazon"]]
  * World Rainforest Movement, [[https://wrm.org.uy/articles-from-the-wrm-bulletin/viewpoint/infrastructure-and-extraction-a-host-of-deforestation/|"Infrastructure and Extraction: A Host of Deforestation"]]
  * Foster et al., [[https://monthlyreview.org/2019/07/01/imperialism-in-the-anthropocene/|"Imperialism in the Anthropocene"]]
  * Llenín Figueroa, [[https://www.radicalhistoryreview.org/abusablepast/?p=3145|"From Puerto Rico: The Maroons Are Deathless, We Are Deathless"]]
  * Lerner, [[https://theintercept.com/2019/07/20/plastics-industry-plastic-recycling/|How the Plastics Industry Is Fighting to Keep Polluting the World]]
  * 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]]
  * Goldfield, [[https://roarmag.org/essays/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-green-war/|No Such Thing as a Green War]]\\ (Compare to McKibben, [[https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/06/27/the-pentagons-outsized-part-in-the-climate-fight/|”Pentagon’s Part in the Climate Fight”]])
  * Charles Mudede, [[https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/08/08/30459308/the-fact-is-nothing-is-going-to-done-about-climate-change-until-it-kills-lots-of-white-people|"Nothing Is Going to Be Done About Climate Change Until It Kills Lots of White People"]]


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

  * CBS News, [[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-reckoning-in-the-heartland-cbsn-originals/|"Farmers reckon with new climate reality in the heartland"]]
  * IATP, [[https://www.iatp.org/agroecology-key-agricultural-resilience-and-ecosystem-recovery|Agroecology: Key to Agricultural Resilience and Ecosystem Recovery]]
  * 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)
  * Karen Washington (interview), [[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"]]

==== Accelerationism and Techno-Utopianism ====

  * Gabriel Levy, [[https://peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2019/09/03/getting-lost-on-the-road-to-communist-utopia/|"Getting lost on the road to communist utopia"]]
  * Ben Reynolds, [[https://roarmag.org/essays/fully-automated-luxury-communism-vision-or-fairy-tale/|"Fully Automated Luxury Communism: Vision or Fairy Tale?"]]
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