http://cjreadings.org/ 2026-04-14T23:59:27-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/ http://cjreadings.org/lib/tpl/dokuwiki/images/favicon.ico text/html 2019-06-14T17:21:53-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=ag-food-crisis&rev=1560547313&do=diff Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar, Agriculture and Food in Crisis [Agriculture and Food in Crisis] Paper, 288 pages Monthly Review Press, 2010 ISBN: 9781583672266 The failures of “free-market” capitalism are perhaps nowhere more evident than in the production and distribution of food. Although modern human societies have attained unprecedented levels of wealth, a significant amount of the world’s population continues to suffer from hunger or food insecurity on a daily basis. In Agriculture and F… text/html 2018-10-10T10:52:59-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=air-conditioning&rev=1539183179&do=diff The Great Air Conditioning Debate of 2018 Leigh Phillips, “In Defense of Air Conditioning” Jacobin 8/30/18 <https://jacobinmag.com/2018/08/air-conditioning-climate-change-energy-pollution> Rut Elliot Blomqvist, “Pulling the Magical Lever” Uneven Earth 9/2/18 <http://unevenearth.org/2018/09/pulling-the-magical-lever/> Louis Proyect, “Jacobin, air-conditioning, and productivist nonsense text/html 2019-06-14T14:41:34-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=alkon-guthman&rev=1560537694&do=diff Alkon and Guthman, eds., The New Food Activism: Opposition, Cooperation, and Collective Action [New Food Activism] Paper, 344 pages University of California Press, 2017 ISBN: 9780520292147 Explores how food activism can be pushed toward deeper and more complex engagement with social, racial, and economic justice and toward advocating for broader and more transformational shifts in the food system. Topics examined include struggles against pesticides and GMOs, efforts to improve workers’ pay… text/html 2017-12-06T15:14:38-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=angus-facing&rev=1512591278&do=diff Ian Angus, Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System [Facing the Anthropocene] Paperback, 280 pages Monthly Review Press, 2016 ISBN: 1583676090 Bridging the gap between Earth System science and ecological Marxism, Ian Angus examines not only the latest scientific findings about the physical causes and consequences of the Anthropocene transition, but also the social and economic trends that underlie the crisis. Cogent and compellingly written, text/html 2019-07-05T09:02:27-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=battle-paradise&rev=1562331747&do=diff The Battle for Paradise: Resisting Disaster Capitalism in Puerto Rico On June 6, 2018, The Intercept presented a panel in New York City on “The Battle for Paradise,” featuring Elizabeth Yeampierre of UPROSE, Naomi Klein, Juan Gonzalez of Democracy Now!, Edwin Morales Laboy of the Puerto Rican Teachers Federation, and Katia Avilés-Vázquez, a specialist on agricultural sustainability in Puerto Rico. The event focused on how the forces of disaster capitalism are, in the wake of Hurricane Maria, se… text/html 2019-04-27T09:16:39-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=bendell&rev=1556370999&do=diff Jem Bendell, 'Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy' Sustainability scholar Jem Bendell looks to deep adaptation in the face of inevitable climate-induced social collapse - as the global system of carbon capitalism pushes life on this planet towards disaster, only a profound shift in the way we relate to the natural world, each other, and our own mortality can prepare us for the world that lies closer than we'd ever imagined. text/html 2019-04-26T21:18:00-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=bernes-devil&rev=1556327880&do=diff Jasper Bernes: Between the Devil and the Green New Deal Commune 4/25/19 <https://communemag.com/between-the-devil-and-the-green-new-deal> Excerpts: To meet the demands of the Green New Deal, which proposes to convert the US economy to zero emissions, renewable power by 2030, there will be a lot more mines gouged into the crust of the earth. That’s because nearly every renewable energy source depends upon non-renewable and frequently hard-to-access minerals: solar panels use indium, turbines … text/html 2017-12-07T14:47:39-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=bloom-6ques&rev=1512676059&do=diff Solidarity, “Six Questions for Ecosocialists” Introduction First Response by Salvatore DiEngel-Mauro Second Response by Steve Bloom Third Response by Dianne Feeley In early 2014, Solidarity’s Ecosocialist Working Group developed six questions that we felt deserved some substantial discussion among those who identify as “ecosocialists.” We invited members of our working group, of Solidarity as a whole, and others to draft some initial responses as a way to generate further discussion. Since … text/html 2019-06-13T10:24:47-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=book-template&rev=1560435887&do=diff Author, Title [Author, Short Title] BookFormat, 000 pages Publisher, 20xx ISBN: 0000000000 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Integer porta ipsum tellus, quis gravida erat placerat eu. Nullam non massa maximus, laoreet purus diam lacinia. Ut placerat ipsum finibus velit posuere tempus text/html 2017-12-27T19:06:28-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=bullard&rev=1514419588&do=diff Robert D. Bullard, ed., Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color [Unequal Protection] Paperback Sierra Club Books, 1994 ISBN: 0871563800 This anthology explores the history of environmental racism (the locating of an unfair share of toxic hazards in communities of color) and provides case studies from around the country of blatant discrimination. Bullard, who served on President Clinton's environmental transition team, offers an overview of some early struggles. Am… text/html 2017-12-24T18:29:54-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=c-anthony&rev=1514158194&do=diff Carl Anthony, The Earth, the City and the Hidden Narrative of Race [The Earth, the City...] Paperback, 386 pages New Village Press, 2017 ISBN: 1613320213 This work connects the logics behind slavery, community disinvestment, and environmental exploitation to address the most pressing issues of our time in a cohesive and foundational manner. Most books dealing with these topics and periods silo issues apart from one another, but this book contextualizes the connections between social movemen… text/html 2019-07-03T11:54:55-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=cohen-ummel&rev=1562169295&do=diff Follow the Carbon: The Case for Neighborhood-Level Carbon Footprints By Daniel Aldana Cohen and Kevin Ummel - July 2, 2019 <https://kleinmanenergy.upenn.edu/policy-digests/follow-carbon> Excerpts: “The normal way of attributing carbon emissions to a population or a place is the territorial carbon footprint (Yetano Roche et al. 2013). The method is pick a jurisdictional boundary—national, regional, urban—and count up all the emissions that occur within it. text/html 2020-03-15T12:47:50-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=contents&rev=1584290870&do=diff Green New Deal Quick Reads Coronavirus Ecosocialism Strategy, Policy, Action Environmental/Climate Justice Environmental History and Capitalism Marxism, Nature and Political Economy Cities, Public Power, Infrastructure Transit / Mobility Mutual Aid / Disaster Recovery Social Ecology and Anarchism EcoFeminism Eco-imperialism and the Global South Agriculture and Food Justice Climate Science / the Anthropocene Some Precursors Fiction and Literature Accelerationism and Techno-Utopi… text/html 2019-06-13T10:33:47-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=dale-green-growth&rev=1560436427&do=diff Gareth Dale et al. eds., Green Growth – Ideology, Political Economy and the Alternatives [Dale, Green Growth] BookFormat, 300 pages Zed Press, 2016 ISBN: 9781783604876 The discourse of “green growth” has recently gained ground in environmental governance deliberations and policy proposals. It is presented as a fresh and innovative agenda centered on the deployment of engineering sophistication, managerial acumen, and market mechanisms to redress the environmental and social derelictions of … text/html 2017-12-22T18:10:11-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=davis-todd&rev=1513984211&do=diff Heather Davis and Zoe Todd, “On the Importance of a Date, or Decolonizing the Anthropocene” ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 2017, 16(4): 761-780 “Since we are not geologists, we cannot evaluate the dates for their stratigraphic accuracy or scientific merit. However, we would like to propose that this dating of the Anthropocene misses a valuable opportunity for evaluating the concept and opening it up beyond its current Eurocentric framing.… text/html 2019-06-14T17:37:57-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=diet-hot-planet&rev=1560548277&do=diff Anna Lappé, Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It [Diet for a Hot Planet] Paper, 288 pages Bloomsbury, 2010 ISBN: 9781608191307 Beyond what we already know about “food miles” and eating locally, the global food system is a major contributor to climate change, producing as much as one-third of greenhouse gas emissions. How we farm, what we eat, and how our food gets to the table all have an impact. And our government and the food indus… text/html 2018-12-14T12:15:21-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=fb-pollin&rev=1544807721&do=diff Critiques of Pollin: A Facebook Thread A Facebook conversation on Robert Pollin's New Left Review article, “De-Growth vs. a Green New Deal“ 9/22/18 M_: This essay is not without interest. But it seems that we have an economist writing from on high so to speak. NO mention of the military and the environment, agriculture and the environment, no notion of political realities today, just that if we do this and this and this, there is a viable path to stabilizing CO2 emissions at an earth sustaina… text/html 2019-06-14T14:51:54-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=food-rebellions&rev=1560538314&do=diff Eric Holt-Gimenez and Raj Patel, Food Rebellions: Crisis and the Hunger for Justice [Food Rebellions] Paper, 282 pages Food First, 2012 ISBN: 978–0–935028–34–8 Food Rebellions! reports on the current political and economic realities of our food systems. Anchored in political economy and an historical perspective, it is a valuable academic resource for understanding the root causes of hunger, growing inequality, the industrial agri-foods complex, and political unrest. Using a multidisciplina… text/html 2019-06-14T17:32:08-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=foodopoly&rev=1560547928&do=diff Wenonah Hauter, Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America [Foodopoly] Paper, 288 pages The New Press, 2014 ISBN: 978-1-59558-978-1 Foodopoly tells the shocking story of how agricultural policy has been hijacked by lobbyists, driving out independent farmers and food processors in favor of companies such as Cargill, Tyson, Kraft, and ConAgra. “A meticulously documented account of how we have lost control of our food system” (Steve Gliessman, professor emeritus of ag… text/html 2017-12-14T19:49:16-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=foster-burkett&rev=1513298956&do=diff John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett, Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique [Marx and the Earth] Paperback, 308 pages Brill/Haymarket, 2017 ISBN: 9781608467051 The authors address certain “critiques of the ecological content of Marx’s and Engels’s work, with some arguing that they failed to develop an ecological approach. This book seeks to address these in order to strengthen classical Marxism’s analysis of environmental questions. These debates are, it must be said, of a highly specific na… text/html 2017-12-13T17:21:43-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=foster-marxecol&rev=1513203703&do=diff John Bellamy Foster, Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature [Marx's Ecology] Paperback, 200 pages Monthly Review Press, 2000 ISBN: 9781583670125 Marx, it is often assumed, cared only about industrial growth and the development of economic forces. John Bellamy Foster examines Marx’s neglected writings on capitalist agriculture and soil ecology, philosophical naturalism, and evolutionary theory. He shows that Marx, known as a powerful critic of capitalist society, was also deeply concerned wi… text/html 2017-12-07T15:43:32-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=foster-trans&rev=1512679412&do=diff John Bellamy Foster, “Ecology and the Transition from Capitalism to Socialism” Monthly Review, November 2008 60(6) [Monthly Review] “My argument has three parts. First, it is crucial to understand the intimate connection between classical Marxism and ecological analysis. Far from being an anomaly for socialism, as we are often led to believe, ecology was an essential component of the socialist project from its inception—notwithstanding the numerous later shortcomings of Soviet-type societies … text/html 2018-12-04T22:01:13-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=fraser-abode&rev=1543978873&do=diff Nancy Fraser, 'Behind Marx's Hidden Abode: For an Expanded Conception of Capitalism' New Left Review 86 Mar-Apr 2014 My claim is that Marx’s account of capitalist production only makes sense when we start to fill in its background conditions of possibility. So the next question will be: what must exist behind these core features in order for them to be possible? Marx himself broaches a question of this sort near the end of Volume I of Capital in the chapter on so-called ‘primitive’ or original… text/html 2017-12-12T16:01:50-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=fraser-care&rev=1513112510&do=diff Nancy Fraser, “Contradictions of Capital and Care,” New Left Review 100 Jul-Aug 2016 The ‘crisis of care’ is currently a major topic of public debate. [1] Often linked to ideas of ‘time poverty’, ‘family-work balance’, and ‘social depletion’, it refers to the pressures from several directions that are currently squeezing a key set of social capacities: those available for birthing and raising children, caring for friends and family members, maintaining households and broader communities, and su… text/html 2019-03-30T10:08:09-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=gasper-cc&rev=1553954889&do=diff How can we prevent climate catastrophe? By Phil Gasper International Socialist Review no. 112 - Spring 2019 (3 paragraphs from a much longer essay) [ISR #112] We have to raise demands and be involved in grassroots struggles that can start shifting the economy away from fossil-fuel dependency as soon as possible. What is important to remember is that the form of the struggle matters just as much as its immediate goal. We want to mobilize the largest numbers of people possible. Radical change … text/html 2019-09-06T12:20:36-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=gnd-older&rev=1567786836&do=diff Green New Deal Archive Go to Dossier for current items. AOC's Message From the Future AOC's Original 2018 Proposal The Plan for a Green New Deal (and the draft legislation) shall be developed in order to achieve the following goals, in each case in no longer than 10 years from the start of execution of the Plan: text/html 2021-11-03T22:04:24-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=gndossier&rev=1635991464&do=diff The Green New Deal A dossier prepared and maintained by the NYC DSA Ecosocialist Working Group In most cases, items below include excerpts only - follow links for full text. For older items, go to Archive. Updated 4/29/20. Video: A Message From the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez A Planet to Win * Aronoff, Battistoni, Cohen, & Riofrancos, text/html 2019-06-13T10:23:12-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=instructions&rev=1560435792&do=diff Instructions See also Book page template and Wiki documentation for further details on formatting and coding. 1. Log in above with your user name and password (if you don't have one, email the webmaster). 2. To open an existing page, click on the page title in the left-side index (the “sidebar”). text/html 2017-12-25T10:50:29-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=jma-envpoor&rev=1514217029&do=diff Joan Martínez-Alier, The Environmentalism of the Poor: A Study of Ecological Conflicts and Valuation [Environmentalism of the Poor] Paperback, 328 pages Edward Elgar Publishing, 2003 ISBN: 9781843764861 This work helps to establish two emerging fields of study – political ecology and ecological economics – whilst also investigating the relations between them. It analyses several manifestations of the growing ‘environmental justice movement’, and also of ‘popular environmentalism’ and the ‘e… text/html 2019-04-28T10:56:11-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=kallis-utop&rev=1556463371&do=diff Degrowth is utopian, and that’s a good thing ...and it’s scientific, too By Giorgios Kallis UnevenEarth 4/26/19 Excerpts from a rather long essay at <http://unevenearth.org/2019/04/degrowth-is-utopian-and-thats-a-good-thing/> What we dream about the future affects how we act today. If utopias express our desires, dystopias distill our fears. Utopias and dystopias are images we invoke to think and act in the present, producing futures that often look very different from either our dreams or … text/html 2019-01-03T10:43:10-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=kendi-denial&rev=1546530190&do=diff What the Believers Are Denying By Ibram X. Kendi, Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University The Atlantic 1/1/19 <https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/what-deniers-climate-change-and-racism-share/579190/> For two years, they formed a community of experts, about 1,000 in all, including 300 leading climate scientists inside and outside 13 federal agencies. For two years, they volunteered their time and expertise to produce the Fourth National Clim… text/html 2019-03-08T18:45:47-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=klein-ccc&rev=1552088747&do=diff David Klein and Stephanie McMillan, Capitalism and Climate Change: The Science and Politics of Global Warming [cover image] eBook Available here ASIN: B010TKWNUA The first part of this book gives a lucid explanation of the science of global warming and climate change. Drawing on a wide range of scientific findings, with specific references, Professor Klein presents stark scenarios for the future. Part 1 ends by explaining that technological solutions already exist, and the only barriers t… text/html 2019-09-17T13:25:08-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=klein-nne&rev=1568741108&do=diff Naomi Klein, No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need [Klein, No Is Not Enough] Paperback, 284 pages Haymarket, 2017 ASIN: B06Y2J2N3M No Is Not Enough website “This is one attempt to uncover how we got to this surreal political moment. It is also an attempt to predict how, under cover of shocks and crises, it could get a lot worse. And it’s a plan for how, if we keep our heads, we might just be able to flip the script and arrive at a radically better… text/html 2018-08-12T12:32:16-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=klein-paradise&rev=1534091536&do=diff Naomi Klein, The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists [Klein, Battle for Paradise] Hardcover, Paperback, and eBook - 96 pages Haymarket Books, 2018 ISBN: 9781608463572 In the rubble of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Ricans and ultrarich “Puertopians” are locked in a pitched struggle over how to remake the island. In this vital and startling investigation, bestselling author and activist Naomi Klein uncovers how the forces of shock politics and disaster capitalism seek… text/html 2019-09-17T13:20:59-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=klein-tce&rev=1568740859&do=diff Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything [Klein, This Changes Everything] Paperback, 577 pages Simon & Schuster, 2014 ASIN: B00JHIDON6 This Changes Everything website Forget everything you think you know about global warming. The really inconvenient truth is that it’s not about carbon—it’s about capitalism. The convenient truth is that we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better. text/html 2017-12-07T15:35:25-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=kovel-enemy&rev=1512678925&do=diff Joel Kovel, The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or The End of the World? [Enemy of Nature] Paperback, 352 pages Zed Press, 2007 ISBN: 9781842778715 Full-Text PDF Author's Foreword: Growing numbers of people are beginning to realize that capitalism is the uncontrollable force driving our ecological crisis, only to become frozen in their tracks by the awesome implications of the insight. Considering that the very possibility of a future revolves about this notion, I decided to take i… text/html 2019-01-17T10:59:33-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=leviathan&rev=1547740773&do=diff Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright, Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future [Mann/Wainwright, Climate Leviathan] Hardcover, 234 pages Verso Books, 2018 ISBN: 9781786634290 To further the struggle for climate justice, we need to have some idea how the existing global order is likely to adjust to a rapidly changing environment. Climate Leviathan provides a radical way of thinking about the intensifying challenges to the global order. Drawing on a wide range of political thou… text/html 2019-08-01T15:39:49-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=lindberg-emerg&rev=1564688389&do=diff Climate Emergency Declarations Guarantee Nothing; We Need Total System Transformation … By Sandra Lindberg System Change Not Climate Change 7/11/19 <https://systemchangenotclimatechange.org/article/climate-emergency-declarations-guarantee-nothing-we-need-total-system-transformation-climate> Excerpts: In an effort to mobilize populations within the US (and other countries), some environmental organizations demand that climate change be renamed a climate emergency. Organizing and training citi… text/html 2020-03-11T21:06:40-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=list-agrofood&rev=1583975200&do=diff Agriculture, Land, Food Justice, Farm Workers * Rob Wallace, "Capitalist agriculture and Covid-19: A deadly combination" Climate & Capitalism * IPCC, Climate Change and Land | NY Times on IPCC report | In-Depth Q&A * Timothy A. Wise, Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food * Raj Patel, Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System * Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore, “Cheap Food,” in A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things *… text/html 2020-01-31T08:09:41-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=list-cities&rev=1580476181&do=diff Cities, Public Power, Transport, Infrastructure * DSA Intro to Energy Democracy Reading List * Ashley Dawson, Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change * Jeff Goodell, The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World * Clyde Woods, Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans * David Company, "Life in Miami on the Knife's Edge of Climate Change" * Simon Pirani,… text/html 2019-07-22T10:53:56-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=list-clifi&rev=1563807236&do=diff Fiction and Literature * Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable * Amitav Ghosh, Gun Island * Kim Stanley Robinson, New York 2140 * Margaret Atwood, The MaddAdam Trilogy * Paolo Bacigalupi, The Water Knife and The Windup Girl * Manuel García, "Ye Cannot Swerve Me: Moby-Dick and Climate Change" * Dr. Seuss, The Lorax text/html 2020-01-31T08:06:40-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=list-clijustice&rev=1580476000&do=diff Environmental and Climate Justice * Principles of Environmental Justice (1991) * Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing (1996) * Bhavnani et al., Climate Futures: Re-imagining Global Climate Justice * Bill E. Lawson, The Value of Environmental Justice * Carl Anthony, The Earth, the City and the Hidden Narrative of Race * Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor * Joan Martínez-Alier, The Environmentalism of the Poor: A Study of Ecological Conflicts and Valuation… text/html 2019-12-10T17:52:35-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=list-clisci&rev=1576018355&do=diff Climate Science / the Anthropocene * The UN Environment Programme's Emissions Gap Report 2019 * World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency * Information for DSAers on the 2018 IPCC Report * Paul N. Edwards, A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming * Sarah Dry, Waters of the World: The Story of the Scientists Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Our Oceans, Atmosphere, and Ice Sheets and Made the Planet Whole * José A. Tapia, Fairy Tales About Clima… text/html 2019-11-14T10:01:21-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=list-denial&rev=1573743681&do=diff Climate Denial and Other Right-Wing Responses * Michael Klare, All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change * Richard Seymour, "A Note on Climate Sadism" * Max Ajl, "Eco-Fascisms and Eco-Socialisms" * Susie Cagle, "'Bees, not refugees': the environmentalist roots of anti-immigrant bigotry" text/html 2019-09-21T12:07:23-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=list-ecofem&rev=1569082043&do=diff Ecofemimism, Women, Social Reproduction * Ariel Salleh, Ecofeminism as Politics: Nature, Marx and the Postmodern * Nancy Fraser, "Contradictions of Capital and Care" * Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation * Silvia Federici, “Feminism and the Politics of the Commons” * Maria Mies and Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen, The Subsistence Perspective: Beyond the Globalised Economy * Vandana Shiva and Maria Mies, Ecofeminism * Donna Haraway, Staying with … text/html 2020-06-17T11:18:29-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=list-ecosoc&rev=1592407109&do=diff Ecosocialism * Socialist Forum: The Climate Crisis and the Future of American Politics * Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams, Creating an Ecological Society * Michael Löwy, Ecosocialism * Michael Löwy, "Ecological and Social Planning and Transition" * Ian Angus, Facing the Anthropocene * John Bellamy Foster, “Ecology and the Transition from Capitalism to Socialism” * Giorgos Kallis, Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care * Samuel Alexander, “Life in a ‘Degrowth’… text/html 2019-12-15T12:44:51-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=list-glosouth&rev=1576431891&do=diff Imperialism, Extraction, and the Global South * Michael Klare, All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change * Macarena Gómez-Barris, The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives * Foster et al., "Imperialism in the Anthropocene" * Patrick Bond, "Social Movements for Climate Justice during the Decline of Global Governance" * World Rainforest Movement, "Infrastructure and Extraction: A Host of Deforestation" * Ramachandra Guha, Environmentalism:… text/html 2019-07-24T12:02:53-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=list-histcap&rev=1563984173&do=diff Environmental History and Capitalism * Jason W. Moore, Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital * Jason W. Moore and Raj Patel, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things * Andreas Malm, Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming * Nancy Fraser, "Behind Marx's Hidden Abode" * Bonneuil and Fressoz, The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us * Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Acc… text/html 2019-12-14T18:40:44-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=list-marxnature&rev=1576366844&do=diff Marxism, Nature and Political Economy * John Bellamy Foster, Marx’s Ecology * Kohei Saito, Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism * John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett, Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique * James O'Connor, "The Second Contradiction of Capitalism" * Hannah Holleman, "Method in Ecological Marxism: Science and the Struggle for Change" * John Bellamy Foster, "Marxism and Ecology: Common Fonts of a Great Transition" * Monthly Review, Special Issue on “The Robbery of Nature,” August 2018… text/html 2019-08-01T12:30:19-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=list-mutaid&rev=1564677019&do=diff ===== Mutual Aid / Disaster Recovery * Petr Kropotkin, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution * Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster * Ashley Dawson, Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change text/html 2019-09-30T01:32:01-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=list-precursors&rev=1569821521&do=diff Some Precursors Early Warnings and Classic Works * William Morris: Father of Socialist Ecology * Rachel Carson, The Silent Spring * Barry Commoner, The Closing Circle and The Poverty of Power * Club of Rome, The Limits to Growth * Our Common Future: The Brundtland Report (1987) * Herman Daly, The Steady State * Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition * Janet Biehl, Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin text/html 2020-03-11T21:09:47-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=list-reform&rev=1583975387&do=diff Strategy, Policy, Action * McAlevey, We Have to Change the Way We Talk About Green Jobs * Riofrancos, Plan, Mood, Battlefield - Reflections on the Green New Deal * Green New Deal Dossier * Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal * Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything * Naomi Klein, No Is Not Enough * Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright, Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future * George Monbiot, Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisi… text/html 2019-07-10T12:23:55-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=list-socecol&rev=1562775835&do=diff Social Ecology and Anarchism * Brian Tokar, Toward Climate Justice: Perspectives on the Climate Crisis and Social Change * John P. Clark, Between Earth and Empire: From the Necrocene to the Beloved Community * Murray Bookchin and Harry Cleaver, The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy text/html 2020-03-11T21:03:02-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=list-techno&rev=1583974982&do=diff Geoengineering, Eco-Modernism, Techno-Utopianism Much of this literature is quite counter to ecosocialist perspectives and at the extreme presents apologias for capitalism. See Critiques below. * Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility text/html 2020-02-01T08:47:35-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=list-transit&rev=1580564855&do=diff Transit / Mobility * Mimi Shaller, Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes - “shows how power and inequality inform the governance and control of movement. She connects the body, street, city, nation, and planet in one overarching theory of the modern, perpetually shifting world. Concepts of mobility are examined on a local level in the circulation of people, resources, and information, as well as on an urban scale, with questions of public transport and 'the right to … text/html 2017-12-09T15:48:49-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=living-forest&rev=1512852529&do=diff Kichwa People of Sarayaku (Ecuador) - Living Forest Proposal On November 6-17, 2017, a delegation of Indigenous Kichwa leaders from the community of Sarayaku, deep in Ecuadorian Amazon, accompanied by Amazon Watch, traveled to the 23rd Conference of the Parties (COP23) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bonn, Germany, to promote their Kawsak Sacha ( text/html 2017-12-07T15:38:25-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=lowy&rev=1512679105&do=diff Michael Löwy, Ecosocialism: A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe [Löwy, Ecosocialism] Paperback, 144 pages Haymarket Books, 2015 ISBN: 1608464717 Löwy lays out the ecosocialist alternative to capitalism. Ecosocialism asserts that “only a collective and democratic reorganization of the productive system could . . . satisfy real social needs, reduce labor time, suppress useless and/or dangerous production, and replace fossil fuels with renewable energy sources.” All of society’s pr… text/html 2019-07-10T13:16:25-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=magdoff-williams&rev=1562778985&do=diff Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams, Creating an Ecological Society: Toward a Revolutionary Transformation [Creating an Ecological Society] Paperback, 384 pages Monthly Review Press, 2017 ISBN: 1583676295 Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams, who have devoted their lives to activism, Marxist analysis, and ecological science, provide informed, fascinating accounts of how a new world can be created from the ashes of the old. Their book shows that it is possible to envision and create a society that is… text/html 2018-06-13T13:12:20-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=malm-strategy&rev=1528909940&do=diff “Revolution in a Warming World: Lessons from the Russian to the Syrian Revolutions” by Andreas Malm New Politics, June 7, 2018 Excerpts: In the report Climate Change and Labour: Impacts of Heat in the Workplace, several union federations and UN branches draw attention to what might be the most universal and the most widely ignored experience of global warming: it’s getting hotter at work.[25] Physical labour makes the body warm. If it takes place under the sun or inside facilities without ad… text/html 2019-09-17T13:30:56-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=monbiot-mess&rev=1568741456&do=diff George Monbiot, How Did We Get Into This Mess? Politics, Equality, Nature [Monbiot, How Did We Get Into This Mess?] Paperback, 352 pages Verso, 2017 ASIN: B00Z3E3OCO Where we have gone wrong, and what to do about it: “Without countervailing voices, naming and challenging power, political freedom withers and dies. Without countervailing voices, a better world can never materialise. Without countervailing voices, wells will still be dug and bridges will still be built, but only for the few. F… text/html 2018-06-16T09:06:23-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=monbiot-out&rev=1529154383&do=diff George Monbiot, Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis [Monbiot, Out of the Wreckage] Paperback, 224 pages Verso, 2017 ASIN: B01LX5A54F What does the good life—and the good society—look like in the twenty-first century? A toxic ideology of extreme competition and individualism has come to dominate our world. It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose. Only a positive vision can replace it, a new story that re-engages people in politics and lights a… text/html 2019-06-02T11:34:17-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=moorepatel&rev=1559489657&do=diff Jason W. Moore and Raj Patel, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet [Seven Cheap Things] Hardcover, 328 pages University of California Press, 2017 ISBN: 9780520293137 Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. In text/html 2020-03-11T21:07:25-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=more-quick-reads&rev=1583975245&do=diff Quick Reads archive Items posted prior to 9/15/19. For more recent items, visit our raindrop.io collection. Ecosocialism * Pirani, The system that's warming the globe won't stop global warming (podcast) * Gracie Brett (Boston DSA), "The Case for Ecosocialism: Polluting Plutocracy vs. Prosperity" * Mark Schaeffer, “Capitalism, Socialism, and Sustainability” (DSA resource) * Hans Baer, "Toward Democratic Ecosocialism as the Next World System" * Phil Gasper, How can we prevent climate… text/html 2017-12-24T18:34:57-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=nixon-slow&rev=1514158497&do=diff Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor [Slow Violence...] Paperback, 370 pages Harvard University Press, 2013 ISBN: 9780674072343 The violence wrought by climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the environmental aftermath of war takes place gradually and often invisibly. Using the innovative concept of “slow violence” to describe these threats, Rob Nixon focuses on the inattention we have paid to the attritional lethality of many environmental cris… text/html 2017-12-12T16:23:01-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=norgaard&rev=1513113781&do=diff Kari Marie Norgaard, Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life [Living in Denial] Paperback, 304 pages MIT Press, 2011 ISBN: 9780262515856 Global warming is the most significant environmental issue of our time, yet public response in Western nations has been meager. Why have so few taken any action? In Living in Denial, sociologist Kari Norgaard searches for answers to this question, drawing on interviews and ethnographic data from her study of text/html 2017-12-06T11:50:54-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=oconnor-2nd&rev=1512579054&do=diff James O'Connor, “The Second Contradiction of Capitalism” Full Text available online. Originally published in O'Connor, Natural Causes: Essays in Ecological Marxism, pp. 158-177 The Guilford Press, 1997 ISBN: 1572302739 Opening paragraph: “This article expounds the traditional Marxist theory of the contradiction between forces and relations of production, over-production of capital and economic crisis, and the process of crisis-induced restructuring of productive forces and production relat… text/html 2019-08-22T17:58:01-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=online&rev=1566511081&do=diff Online Resources Websites System Change Not Climate Change Climate & Capitalism Uneven Earth Uneven Earth Resources 350.org Next System Project Resilience.org Green Social Thought - “Produce less. Distribute it fairly. Create a greener world for all.” Our Place in the World Great Transition Initiative Unequal Carbon Footprints Videos and Podcasts Max Ajl and Kali Akuno, Left Forum 2019 Panel on the Green New Deal Eco-Socialism and the Climate Crisis - Podcast by The Dig, featuring… text/html 2017-12-27T19:16:18-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=pellow&rev=1514420178&do=diff David Naguib Pellow, What is Critical Environmental Justice? [Critical Environmental Justice] Paperback, 200 pages Polity Books, 2017 ISBN: 0745679382 Human societies have always been deeply interconnected with our ecosystems, but today those relationships are witnessing greater frictions, tensions, and harms than ever before. These harms mirror those experienced by marginalized groups across the planet. text/html 2018-08-09T23:40:05-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=rich-critiques&rev=1533872405&do=diff Responses to "Losing Earth" Critical responses to Nathaniel Rich, “Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change,” published in the August 4, 2018, New York Times. See also interviews with Rich on Democracy Now and The Takeaway on WNYC. * Naomi Klein, “Capitalism Killed Our Climate Momentum, Not 'Human Nature' text/html 2017-12-14T19:39:19-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=saito&rev=1513298359&do=diff Kohei Saito, Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy [Karl Marx's Ecosocialism] Paperback, 308 pages Monthly Review Press, 2017 ISBN: 9781583676424 Karl Marx, author of what is perhaps the world’s most resounding and significant critique of bourgeois political economy, has frequently been described as a “Promethean.” According to critics, Marx held an inherent belief in the necessity of humans to dominate the natural world, in order to en… text/html 2019-06-27T13:05:01-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=seymour-hell&rev=1561655101&do=diff "Hell Is Coming" By Richard Seymour June 27, 2019 Excerpts. Full essay at <https://www.patreon.com/posts/hell-is-coming-27918387> Until recently, climate mourning was the niche concern of academics, psychologists, psychoanlysts, and a few deep ecologists. Where it appeared in the environmental movement, it was often inflected with Kingsnorthian white melancholia and climate nationalism. Now, after decades of compulsory optimism and spiritual uplift from greenwashed capitalism, years of phone… text/html 2017-12-06T15:10:29-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=smith-green&rev=1512591029&do=diff Richard Smith, Green Capitalism: The God That Failed [Green Capitalism] Paperback, 172 pages World Economic Association Books ISBN: 1848902050 Author's synopsis: This book deals with the prime threat to human life on earth: the tendency of global capitalist economic development to develop us to death, to drive us off the cliff to ecological collapse. It begins with a review of the origins of this economic dynamic in the transition to capitalism in England and Europe and with an analysis of… text/html 2018-11-27T13:45:19-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=smith-plan&rev=1543344319&do=diff An Ecosocialist Path to Limiting Global Temperature Rise to 1.5°C By Richard Smith Full text Key Excerpts: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Plan “is first of all, a definitive break with the Reagan-Thatcher-Friedman “capitalism good, government bad” doctrine which holds that the best role for governmenti is to “get out of the way and just incentivize the private sector.” Instead, the Plan calls for robust expansive government to drive the needed changes, for two reasons: (1) scale and (2) time: Fi… text/html 2021-05-23T11:49:18-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=start&rev=1621784958&do=diff Resources for Ecosocialists A Wiki to guide activists in self-education and organized study groups A project of the NYC DSA Ecosocialist Working Group Use the menu on the left to browse key resources on the various topics. For shorter reads, visit our frequently updated raindrop.io links collection. For posts prior to 9/15/19 see text/html 2019-06-14T17:39:42-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=stuffed-starved&rev=1560548382&do=diff Raj Patel, Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System [Patel, Stuffed and Starved] Paper, 432 pages Melville House, 2012 ISBN: 9781612191270 It’s a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving people in the world than ever before, while there are also more people who are overweight. To find out how we got to this point and what we can do about it, Raj Patel launched a comprehensive investigation into the global food network. It took him from the colossal super… text/html 2018-10-24T10:21:13-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=vast-machine&rev=1540390873&do=diff Paul N. Edwards, A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming [Edwards, Vast Machine] Paper, 552 pages The MIT Press, 2010 ISBN: 9780262518635 The science behind global warming, and its history: how scientists learned to understand the atmosphere, to measure it, to trace its past, and to model its future. text/html 2019-07-10T12:44:41-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=wallis-red-green&rev=1562777081&do=diff Victor Wallis, Red-Green Revolution: The Politics and Technology of Ecosocialism [Wallis, Red-Green Revolution] Paper, 222 pages Political Animal Press, 2018 ISBN: 9781895131291 Red-Green Revolution is an impassioned and informed confrontation with the planetary emergency brought about by accelerated ecological devastation in the last half-century. Victor Wallis argues that sound ecological policy requires a socialist framework, based on democratic participation and drawing on the historica… text/html 2018-08-12T12:14:01-04:00 http://cjreadings.org/doku.php?id=wallis-redgreenrev&rev=1534090441&do=diff Victor Wallis, Red-Green Revolution: The Politics and Technology of Ecosocialism [Author, Short Title] Paperback, 200 pages Political Animal Press, 2018 ISBN: 978-1-895131-29-1 Red-Green Revolution is an impassioned and informed confrontation with the planetary emergency brought about by accelerated ecological devastation in the last half-century. Victor Wallis argues that sound ecological policy requires a socialist framework, based on democratic participation and drawing on the historical…