The Climate Crisis: South African and Global Democratic Eco-Socialist Alternatives

ISBN-13: 9781776140541 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 372 str.

Satgar, Vishwas

Opis

Capitalism's addiction to fossil fuels is heating our planet at a pace and scale never before experienced. Political leaders across the world are failing to provide systemic solutions to the climate crisis. The Climate Crisis investigates ecosocialist alternatives that are emerging.

Spis treści

• Tables, figures and box
• Acknowledgements
• Acronyms and abbreviations
• 1 The Climate Crisis and Systemic Alternatives
• PART ONE :THE CLIMATE CRISIS AS CAPITALIST CRISIS
• 2 The Limits of Capitalist Solutions to the Climate Crisis
• 3 The Anthropocene and Imperial Ecocide: Prospects for Just Transitions
• PART TWO: DEMOCRATIC ECO-SOCIALIST ALTERNATIVES IN THE WORLD
• 4 The Employment Crisis, Just Transition and the Universal Basic Income Grant
• 5 The Rights of Mother Earth
• 6 Buen Vivir: An Alternative Perspective from the Peoples of the Global South
• 7 Challenging the Growth Paradigm: Marx, Buddha and the Pursuit of ‘Happiness’
• 8 Ubuntu and the Struggle for an African Eco-socialist Alternative
• 9 The Climate Crisis and the Struggle for African Food Sovereignty
• PART THREE: DEMOCRATIC ECO-SOCIALIST ALTERNATIVES IN SOUTH AFRICA
• 10 The Climate Crisis and a ‘Just Transition’ in South Africa: An Eco-Feminist-Socialist Perspective
• 11 Energy, Labour, and Democracy in South Africa
• 12 Capital, Climate and the Politics of Nuclear Procurement in South Africa
• 13 Climate Jobs at Two Minutes to Midnight
• 14 Deepening the Just Transition Through Food Sovereignty and the Solidarity Economy
• 15 Eco-Capitalist Crises in the ‘Blue Economy’: Operation Phakisa’s Small, Slow Failures
• CONCLUSION
• Contributors
• Index