The climate srisis South African and global democratic eco-socialist alternatives

Capitalism's addiction to fossil fuels is heating our planet at a pace and scale never before experienced. Extreme weather patterns, rising sea levels and accelerating feedback loops are a commonplace feature of our lives. The number of environmental refugees is increasing and several island st...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Satgar, Vishwas, editor (editor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Johannesburg : Wits University Press 2018.
Colección:Democratic Marxism.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009434183206719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The climate crisis and systemic alternatives
  • The limits of capitalist solutions to the climate crisis
  • The anthropocene and imerpeial ecocide
  • The employment crisis, just transition and the universal basic income grant
  • The rights of Mother Earth
  • Buen Vivir: an alternative perspective from the peoples of the global south to the crisis of capitalist modernity
  • Challenging the growth paradigm: Marx, Buddha and the pursuit of "happiness"
  • Ubuntu and the struggle for an African eco-socialist alternative
  • The climate crisis and the struggle for African food sovereignty
  • The climate crisis and a "just transition" in South Africa
  • Energy, labour and democracy in South Africa
  • Capital, climate and the politics of nuclear procurement in South Africa
  • Climate jobs at two minutes to midnight
  • Deepening the just transition through food sovereignty and the solidarity economy
  • Eco-capitalist crises in the "Blue Economy"