Politics in the Zeros

“Confronting the climate change crisis” details how socialism can provide answers to global warming.

A radical movement against climate change can be built around demands such as these:

Establish and enforce rapid mandatory reductions in CO2 emissions: real reductions, not phony trading plans.

Make the corporations that produce greenhouse gases pay the full cost [...]

I don’t usually post on environmental issues, not because I’m not interested but mainly because it’s not a subject I feel particularly knowledgeable about. Usually I prefer to read and learn but I do enjoy a challenge so this post is largely me thinking aloud.

For me, the merits of eco-socialism largely depend [...]

From an article by Richard A. Smith, his three principles for an ecosocialist economy to save us from collapse.

Ecosocialist economy of stasis. Massive cutbacks on growth and rationing in the developed world combined with strictly planned growth in the third world.

But under what mechanism could this occur? It would require either complete consensus [...]

This is the first of a number of posts on Ian Angus’ seminal “Confronting the Climate Change Crisis” on his blog, Climate and Capitalism.

His primary point is that capitalism, due to its inherent structure, can not and will not be able to solve global warming.

Why? One reason is because greenhouse gas emissions [...]