Brian Tokar is an activist and author, director of the Institute for Social Ecology, (social-ecology.org) and a lecturer in Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont. He is the author of The Green Alternative, Earth for Sale, and Toward Climate Justice: Perspectives on the Climate Crisis and Social Change, which was reissued in an expanded and revised edition by the New Compass Press in 2014. He is an editor of Agriculture and Food in Crisis (with Fred Magdoff) and also edited two collections on biotechnology and GMOs: Redesigning Life? and Gene Traders. Tokar is a board member of 350Vermont, and a contributor to the Routledge Handbook of the Climate Change Movement, A Line in the Tar Sands, and other recent books. His articles on environmental issues and popular movements appear in Z Magazine and Green Social Thought, and on websites such as Counterpunch, ZNet, CommonDreams, New Compass, and Toward Freedom. He has lectured across the US and internationally on social ecology and the links between environmental and social movements.
The call for Climate Justice promises a renewed grassroots response to the climate crisis. This e... more The call for Climate Justice promises a renewed grassroots response to the climate crisis. This emerging movement is rooted in land-based and urban communities around the world that have experienced the most severe impacts of global climate changes. Climate Justice highlights the social justice and human rights dimensions of the crisis, using creative direct action to press for real, systemic changes. Toward Climate Justice explains the case for Climate Justice, challenges the myths underlying carbon markets and other false solutions, and looks behind the events that have obstructed the advance of climate policies at the UN and in the US Congress. This fully revised edition includes numerous updates on current climate science and politics worldwide. Drawing on more than three decades of political engagement with energy and climate issues, author Brian Tokar shows how the perspective of social ecology can point the way toward an ecological reconstruction of society.
The theory and praxis of social ecology have guided social movements seeking a radical, counter-s... more The theory and praxis of social ecology have guided social movements seeking a radical, counter-systemic ecological outlook since the 1960s, advancing goals of transforming society's relationship to non-human nature and reharmonizing human communities' ties to the natural world. This chapter reviews the philosophy and political outlook of social ecology, its multifaceted contributions to social movements past and present, and its emerging contributions to addressing current climate policy challenges. These include the viability of proposed transition strategies toward a fossil-free future, the potentialities and limitations of localist, community-centered responses to climate change, the problems inherent in current market-driven models of renewable energy development, and the potential contributions of reconstructive, neo-utopian outlooks to contemporary climate politics. We conclude that, despite the ever-present threat of climate catastrophe, a genuinely transformative climate justice movement needs to advance a forward-looking view of an improved quality of life for most people in a future freed from fossil fuel dependence.
In 2013, Vermont Gas Systems (VGS) received a certificate of public good for their proposed 41-mi... more In 2013, Vermont Gas Systems (VGS) received a certificate of public good for their proposed 41-mile pipeline extension called the Addison Natural Gas Project (ANGP) for transporting fracked gas from Alberta, Canada via the TransCanada Mainline. The ANGP is the largest expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure in Vermont in decades. Activists, those working and studying in higher education, local residents, and others have resisted the ANGP with diverse strategies. An investigation launched in 2017 regarding the pipelineās ongoing safety and construction problems remains open. In co-writing this chapter, we offer brief autobiographical comments, followed by a āmulti-logueā consisting of a facilitated and recorded discussion, which we transcribed and circulated among ourselves for revision and reflection. Our āmulti-logueā writing experiment highlights our multiple perspectives on the ANGP and on broader pipeline pedagogies and entanglements. We reflect on our experiences learning to undermine the ANGP through two themes: (1) strengthening human and more-than-human relationships with places threatened by pipeline expansion, and (2) practicing pipeline pedagogies amidst Higher Education Institution (HEI) politics.
The accelerating disruption of the Earth's climate systems is the defining issue of our time.... more The accelerating disruption of the Earth's climate systems is the defining issue of our time. The persistent failure of international climate diplomacy has encouraged local, regional, and some national-level solutions and spurred an emerging global movement for climate justice, mainly rooted in communities that bear disproportionate impacts from climate change. This article discusses the ways in which movements from below, seeking economic and energy democracy, are shaping our responses to the crisis. How can the imperative for immediate climate action and the ethical agenda of climate justice be furthered by movements seeking democratic alternatives and a more genuinely ecological future?
EJ386154 - Social Ecology, Deep Ecology and the Future of Green Political Thought. ... Identifier... more EJ386154 - Social Ecology, Deep Ecology and the Future of Green Political Thought. ... Identifiers: Deep Ecology; Social Ecology. Record Type: Journal. Level: N/A. ...
The concept of climate justice has emerged over several decades as a research agenda, an ethical ... more The concept of climate justice has emerged over several decades as a research agenda, an ethical and legal framework and most uniquely as the basis for an engaged grassroots response to the unfolding global climate crisis. Climate justice highlights the disproportionate impacts of climate changes on the most vulnerable and marginalised human populations, as well as the limitations of conventional political responses to rising climate instability. As a distinct thread in the evolving global civil society responses to climate change, climate justice networks have brought together representatives of indigenous and other land-based peopleās movements, environmental justice advocates who have confronted inequities in exposure to toxic pollution, and elements of the global justice/alter-globalisation movements that have long challenged international financial institutions and other elite networks. This constellation of social movement actors has articulated a distinct countercurrent to traditional climate diplomacy, challenged both technological and market-oriented āfalse solutionsā to the climate crisis and organised public expressions of opposition to the incomplete and largely inadequate policy measures developed under the auspices of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. This chapter will outline many of the distinct contributions climate justice activists have brought to the wider global movement for climate action, especially through their organising methods, overarching ethical framework, intersectional politics and egalitarian, community-centred visions of a carbon-free future. It will also address some of the persistent challenges to this perspective, especially in an era of increasingly visible global climate impacts, coupled with rising political uncertainties and declining restraints on corporate political influence in several key countries.
Pipeline Pedagogy: Teaching About Energy and Environmental Justice Contestations, 2021
In 2013, Vermont Gas Systems (VGS) received a certificate of public good for their proposed 41-mi... more In 2013, Vermont Gas Systems (VGS) received a certificate of public good for their proposed 41-mile pipeline extension called the Addison Natural Gas Project (ANGP) for transporting fracked gas from Alberta, Canada via the TransCanada Mainline. The ANGP is the largest expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure in Vermont in decades. Activists, those working and studying in higher education, local residents, and others have resisted the ANGP with diverse strategies. An investigation launched in 2017 regarding the pipelineās ongoing safety and construction problems remains open. In co-writing this chapter, we offer brief autobiographical comments, followed by a āmulti-logueā consisting of a facilitated and recorded discussion, which we transcribed and circulated among ourselves for revision and reflection. Our āmulti-logueā writing experiment highlights our multiple perspectives on the ANGP and on broader pipeline pedagogies and entanglements. We reflect on our experiences learning to un...
Plantations, as distinct from forests, are uniform agroecosystems that substitute for natural eco... more Plantations, as distinct from forests, are uniform agroecosystems that substitute for natural ecosystems and their biodiversity. As such, plantations are frequently associated with negative environmental and social impacts: decrease in water availability, modifications in the structure and composition of soils, depletion of biological diversity, encroachment on indigenous peoples' communities, agricultural lands and forests, and eviction of peasants and indigenous peoples from their lands with loss of livelihoods. Introducing genetically engineered trees into monoculture plantations will exacerbate these negative impacts. In addition, the traits for which trees are being engineeredā reduced lignin, faster growth, insect resistance and sterilityāwill have other serious and irreversible consequences for the worldās native forests and forest dwelling peoples. The UN Convention on Biological Diversityās March 2006 statement on genetically engineered trees urges careful examination o...
Monsanto is the main enterprise in transgenic research in staple foods. lts history is full of no... more Monsanto is the main enterprise in transgenic research in staple foods. lts history is full of non ethicintentions since 1 920. PCB's (polichlorinated bipheniles) are one of the first Monsanto's chemical compounds with hughe problems of bioconcentration. The content of dioxines in several of its chemical products is very important, not only among users, also in Monsanto's workers. This problem was analyzed after the exposition to Orange Agent in Vietnam's vets. Transgenic soy is not sent to the market to solution world's lamine, in stead of forcing farmers to use the herbicide (Round up) associated with transgenic soy. Similar are the exeriencies with rBGH (recombinant bovine growth hormone), used to enhance milk production in cows, with many health problems to the livestock. Due to the growing concern of public opinion against transgenic industry, monsanto has launched a "Greenwash" policy , treating to associate "green" and "ecological&...
Published in 1987, Revised 1992 by R & E Miles (San Pedro, CA). Revised edition co-published wit... more Published in 1987, Revised 1992 by R & E Miles (San Pedro, CA). Revised edition co-published with New Society Publishers of Philadelphia and Vancouver.
The call for Climate Justice promises a renewed grassroots response to the climate crisis. This e... more The call for Climate Justice promises a renewed grassroots response to the climate crisis. This emerging movement is rooted in land-based and urban communities around the world that have experienced the most severe impacts of global climate changes. Climate Justice highlights the social justice and human rights dimensions of the crisis, using creative direct action to press for real, systemic changes. Toward Climate Justice explains the case for Climate Justice, challenges the myths underlying carbon markets and other false solutions, and looks behind the events that have obstructed the advance of climate policies at the UN and in the US Congress. This fully revised edition includes numerous updates on current climate science and politics worldwide. Drawing on more than three decades of political engagement with energy and climate issues, author Brian Tokar shows how the perspective of social ecology can point the way toward an ecological reconstruction of society.
Earth for Sale: Reclaiming Ecology in the Age of Corporate Greenwash,
by Brian Tokar (South ... more Earth for Sale: Reclaiming Ecology in the Age of Corporate Greenwash,
by Brian Tokar (South End Press, Spring 1997)
Table of Contents
Introduction: Environmental Politics at the Crossroads
Part One: The Limits of Environmentalism
Prologue: The Challenge of Environmentalism
1. The Rise and Fall of Official Environmentalism
2. Trading Away the Earth
3. The Limits of Regulation
4. Activist Dilemmas: Insider Politics vs. the Forests
Part Two: New Ecological Movements
5. Ecology and Revolution
6. Environmental Justice
7. The New Forest Activism
8. Ecological Movements in the Third World
9. Unifying Movements: Theory and Practice
10. Ecology, Community and Democracy
The call for Climate Justice promises a renewed grassroots response to the climate crisis. This e... more The call for Climate Justice promises a renewed grassroots response to the climate crisis. This emerging movement is rooted in land-based and urban communities around the world that have experienced the most severe impacts of global climate changes. Climate Justice highlights the social justice and human rights dimensions of the crisis, using creative direct action to press for real, systemic changes. Toward Climate Justice explains the case for Climate Justice, challenges the myths underlying carbon markets and other false solutions, and looks behind the events that have obstructed the advance of climate policies at the UN and in the US Congress. This fully revised edition includes numerous updates on current climate science and politics worldwide. Drawing on more than three decades of political engagement with energy and climate issues, author Brian Tokar shows how the perspective of social ecology can point the way toward an ecological reconstruction of society.
The theory and praxis of social ecology have guided social movements seeking a radical, counter-s... more The theory and praxis of social ecology have guided social movements seeking a radical, counter-systemic ecological outlook since the 1960s, advancing goals of transforming society's relationship to non-human nature and reharmonizing human communities' ties to the natural world. This chapter reviews the philosophy and political outlook of social ecology, its multifaceted contributions to social movements past and present, and its emerging contributions to addressing current climate policy challenges. These include the viability of proposed transition strategies toward a fossil-free future, the potentialities and limitations of localist, community-centered responses to climate change, the problems inherent in current market-driven models of renewable energy development, and the potential contributions of reconstructive, neo-utopian outlooks to contemporary climate politics. We conclude that, despite the ever-present threat of climate catastrophe, a genuinely transformative climate justice movement needs to advance a forward-looking view of an improved quality of life for most people in a future freed from fossil fuel dependence.
In 2013, Vermont Gas Systems (VGS) received a certificate of public good for their proposed 41-mi... more In 2013, Vermont Gas Systems (VGS) received a certificate of public good for their proposed 41-mile pipeline extension called the Addison Natural Gas Project (ANGP) for transporting fracked gas from Alberta, Canada via the TransCanada Mainline. The ANGP is the largest expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure in Vermont in decades. Activists, those working and studying in higher education, local residents, and others have resisted the ANGP with diverse strategies. An investigation launched in 2017 regarding the pipelineās ongoing safety and construction problems remains open. In co-writing this chapter, we offer brief autobiographical comments, followed by a āmulti-logueā consisting of a facilitated and recorded discussion, which we transcribed and circulated among ourselves for revision and reflection. Our āmulti-logueā writing experiment highlights our multiple perspectives on the ANGP and on broader pipeline pedagogies and entanglements. We reflect on our experiences learning to undermine the ANGP through two themes: (1) strengthening human and more-than-human relationships with places threatened by pipeline expansion, and (2) practicing pipeline pedagogies amidst Higher Education Institution (HEI) politics.
The accelerating disruption of the Earth's climate systems is the defining issue of our time.... more The accelerating disruption of the Earth's climate systems is the defining issue of our time. The persistent failure of international climate diplomacy has encouraged local, regional, and some national-level solutions and spurred an emerging global movement for climate justice, mainly rooted in communities that bear disproportionate impacts from climate change. This article discusses the ways in which movements from below, seeking economic and energy democracy, are shaping our responses to the crisis. How can the imperative for immediate climate action and the ethical agenda of climate justice be furthered by movements seeking democratic alternatives and a more genuinely ecological future?
EJ386154 - Social Ecology, Deep Ecology and the Future of Green Political Thought. ... Identifier... more EJ386154 - Social Ecology, Deep Ecology and the Future of Green Political Thought. ... Identifiers: Deep Ecology; Social Ecology. Record Type: Journal. Level: N/A. ...
The concept of climate justice has emerged over several decades as a research agenda, an ethical ... more The concept of climate justice has emerged over several decades as a research agenda, an ethical and legal framework and most uniquely as the basis for an engaged grassroots response to the unfolding global climate crisis. Climate justice highlights the disproportionate impacts of climate changes on the most vulnerable and marginalised human populations, as well as the limitations of conventional political responses to rising climate instability. As a distinct thread in the evolving global civil society responses to climate change, climate justice networks have brought together representatives of indigenous and other land-based peopleās movements, environmental justice advocates who have confronted inequities in exposure to toxic pollution, and elements of the global justice/alter-globalisation movements that have long challenged international financial institutions and other elite networks. This constellation of social movement actors has articulated a distinct countercurrent to traditional climate diplomacy, challenged both technological and market-oriented āfalse solutionsā to the climate crisis and organised public expressions of opposition to the incomplete and largely inadequate policy measures developed under the auspices of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. This chapter will outline many of the distinct contributions climate justice activists have brought to the wider global movement for climate action, especially through their organising methods, overarching ethical framework, intersectional politics and egalitarian, community-centred visions of a carbon-free future. It will also address some of the persistent challenges to this perspective, especially in an era of increasingly visible global climate impacts, coupled with rising political uncertainties and declining restraints on corporate political influence in several key countries.
Pipeline Pedagogy: Teaching About Energy and Environmental Justice Contestations, 2021
In 2013, Vermont Gas Systems (VGS) received a certificate of public good for their proposed 41-mi... more In 2013, Vermont Gas Systems (VGS) received a certificate of public good for their proposed 41-mile pipeline extension called the Addison Natural Gas Project (ANGP) for transporting fracked gas from Alberta, Canada via the TransCanada Mainline. The ANGP is the largest expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure in Vermont in decades. Activists, those working and studying in higher education, local residents, and others have resisted the ANGP with diverse strategies. An investigation launched in 2017 regarding the pipelineās ongoing safety and construction problems remains open. In co-writing this chapter, we offer brief autobiographical comments, followed by a āmulti-logueā consisting of a facilitated and recorded discussion, which we transcribed and circulated among ourselves for revision and reflection. Our āmulti-logueā writing experiment highlights our multiple perspectives on the ANGP and on broader pipeline pedagogies and entanglements. We reflect on our experiences learning to un...
Plantations, as distinct from forests, are uniform agroecosystems that substitute for natural eco... more Plantations, as distinct from forests, are uniform agroecosystems that substitute for natural ecosystems and their biodiversity. As such, plantations are frequently associated with negative environmental and social impacts: decrease in water availability, modifications in the structure and composition of soils, depletion of biological diversity, encroachment on indigenous peoples' communities, agricultural lands and forests, and eviction of peasants and indigenous peoples from their lands with loss of livelihoods. Introducing genetically engineered trees into monoculture plantations will exacerbate these negative impacts. In addition, the traits for which trees are being engineeredā reduced lignin, faster growth, insect resistance and sterilityāwill have other serious and irreversible consequences for the worldās native forests and forest dwelling peoples. The UN Convention on Biological Diversityās March 2006 statement on genetically engineered trees urges careful examination o...
Monsanto is the main enterprise in transgenic research in staple foods. lts history is full of no... more Monsanto is the main enterprise in transgenic research in staple foods. lts history is full of non ethicintentions since 1 920. PCB's (polichlorinated bipheniles) are one of the first Monsanto's chemical compounds with hughe problems of bioconcentration. The content of dioxines in several of its chemical products is very important, not only among users, also in Monsanto's workers. This problem was analyzed after the exposition to Orange Agent in Vietnam's vets. Transgenic soy is not sent to the market to solution world's lamine, in stead of forcing farmers to use the herbicide (Round up) associated with transgenic soy. Similar are the exeriencies with rBGH (recombinant bovine growth hormone), used to enhance milk production in cows, with many health problems to the livestock. Due to the growing concern of public opinion against transgenic industry, monsanto has launched a "Greenwash" policy , treating to associate "green" and "ecological&...
Published in 1987, Revised 1992 by R & E Miles (San Pedro, CA). Revised edition co-published wit... more Published in 1987, Revised 1992 by R & E Miles (San Pedro, CA). Revised edition co-published with New Society Publishers of Philadelphia and Vancouver.
The call for Climate Justice promises a renewed grassroots response to the climate crisis. This e... more The call for Climate Justice promises a renewed grassroots response to the climate crisis. This emerging movement is rooted in land-based and urban communities around the world that have experienced the most severe impacts of global climate changes. Climate Justice highlights the social justice and human rights dimensions of the crisis, using creative direct action to press for real, systemic changes. Toward Climate Justice explains the case for Climate Justice, challenges the myths underlying carbon markets and other false solutions, and looks behind the events that have obstructed the advance of climate policies at the UN and in the US Congress. This fully revised edition includes numerous updates on current climate science and politics worldwide. Drawing on more than three decades of political engagement with energy and climate issues, author Brian Tokar shows how the perspective of social ecology can point the way toward an ecological reconstruction of society.
Earth for Sale: Reclaiming Ecology in the Age of Corporate Greenwash,
by Brian Tokar (South ... more Earth for Sale: Reclaiming Ecology in the Age of Corporate Greenwash,
by Brian Tokar (South End Press, Spring 1997)
Table of Contents
Introduction: Environmental Politics at the Crossroads
Part One: The Limits of Environmentalism
Prologue: The Challenge of Environmentalism
1. The Rise and Fall of Official Environmentalism
2. Trading Away the Earth
3. The Limits of Regulation
4. Activist Dilemmas: Insider Politics vs. the Forests
Part Two: New Ecological Movements
5. Ecology and Revolution
6. Environmental Justice
7. The New Forest Activism
8. Ecological Movements in the Third World
9. Unifying Movements: Theory and Practice
10. Ecology, Community and Democracy
āCity & Ecologyā: Dialogues with Brian Tokar and Dimitris Roussopoulos, 2022
In this edition, the editorial team of Aftoleksi talks to Brian Tokar and Dimitris Roussopoulos, ... more In this edition, the editorial team of Aftoleksi talks to Brian Tokar and Dimitris Roussopoulos, two influential figures from the North American movement for social ecology ā a theoretical body that focuses on the direct relationship between the political organization of society and our attitudes towards nature.
Key topics of discussion include climate change, energy management, the imaginary of economic growth, and the right to the city. In our own historical era, the character of urgency is appropriate as global warming is now an inescapable horizon. In the face of ecological and social catastrophe, the concept of climate justice, introduced by Tokar himself, is more relevant than ever.
We are also discussing the city and the possibility of building networks of solidarity and direct democracy in the urban fabric, recreating the free public space with democratic institutions of self-government. Rousopoulosā account of his experience, from the self-managed neighbourhood of Milton Parc in Montreal, and the project of libertarian minucipalism is a historical legacy for contemporary movements.
We undertook this project as we firmly believe that ecological and urban issues are vital to the present and future of our presence on the planet. And we have chosen to speak with these thinkers, who have been warning for decades about the destructive direction of our societies, proposing a radical way forward towards a direct-democratic and ecological social institution.
Participants in the dialogues: Ioanna Maravelidi, Peter Piperkov, Dimitris Roussopoulos, Alexandros Schismenos, Yavor Tarinski, Brian Tokar.
This book brings together the voices of people from five continents who live, work, and research ... more This book brings together the voices of people from five continents who live, work, and research on the front lines of climate resistance and renewal.
The many contributors to this volume explore the impacts of extreme weather events in Africa, the Caribbean and on Pacific islands, experiences of life-long defenders of the land and forests in Brazil, India, Indonesia, and eastern Canada, and efforts to halt the expansion of fossil-fuel infrastructure from North America to South Africa. They offer various perspectives on how a just transition toward a fossil-free economy can take shape, as they share efforts to protect water resources, better feed their communities, and implement new approaches to urban policy and energy democracy.
Climate Justice and Community Renewal uniquely highlights the accounts of people who are directly engaged in local climate struggles and community renewal efforts, including on-the-ground land defenders, community organizers, leaders of international campaigns, agroecologists, activist-scholars, and many others. It will appeal to students, researchers, activists, and all who appreciate the need for a truly justice-centered response to escalating climate disruptions.
This book brings together the voices of people from five continents who live, work, and research ... more This book brings together the voices of people from five continents who live, work, and research on the front lines of climate resistance and renewal.
The many contributors to this volume explore the impacts of extreme weather events in Africa, the Caribbean and on Pacific islands, experiences of life-long defenders of the land and forests in Brazil, India, Indonesia, and eastern Canada, and efforts to halt the expansion of fossil-fuel infrastructure from North America to South Africa. They offer various perspectives on how a just transition toward a fossil-free economy can take shape, as they share efforts to protect water resources, better feed their communities, and implement new approaches to urban policy and energy democracy.
Climate Justice and Community Renewal uniquely highlights the accounts of people who are directly engaged in local climate struggles and community renewal efforts, including on-the-ground land defenders, community organizers, leaders of international campaigns, agroecologists, activist-scholars, and many others. It will appeal to students, researchers, activists, and all who appreciate the need for a truly justice-centered response to escalating climate disruptions.
With contributors from: Bolivia, Puerto Rico, India, Brazil, Nigeria, South Africa, Italy, Canada and across the US.
In celebration of Murray Bookchin's birth centenary, his daughter Debbie is joined by a number of... more In celebration of Murray Bookchin's birth centenary, his daughter Debbie is joined by a number of his former friends, students and fellow travelers to honor his memory and reflect on his revolutionary legacy. ROAR Magazine is an independent journal of the radical imagination providing grassroots perspectives from the frontlines of the global struggle for real democracy.
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by Brian Tokar (South End Press, Spring 1997)
Table of Contents
Introduction: Environmental Politics at the Crossroads
Part One: The Limits of Environmentalism
Prologue: The Challenge of Environmentalism
1. The Rise and Fall of Official Environmentalism
2. Trading Away the Earth
3. The Limits of Regulation
4. Activist Dilemmas: Insider Politics vs. the Forests
Part Two: New Ecological Movements
5. Ecology and Revolution
6. Environmental Justice
7. The New Forest Activism
8. Ecological Movements in the Third World
9. Unifying Movements: Theory and Practice
10. Ecology, Community and Democracy
by Brian Tokar (South End Press, Spring 1997)
Table of Contents
Introduction: Environmental Politics at the Crossroads
Part One: The Limits of Environmentalism
Prologue: The Challenge of Environmentalism
1. The Rise and Fall of Official Environmentalism
2. Trading Away the Earth
3. The Limits of Regulation
4. Activist Dilemmas: Insider Politics vs. the Forests
Part Two: New Ecological Movements
5. Ecology and Revolution
6. Environmental Justice
7. The New Forest Activism
8. Ecological Movements in the Third World
9. Unifying Movements: Theory and Practice
10. Ecology, Community and Democracy
Key topics of discussion include climate change, energy management, the imaginary of economic growth, and the right to the city. In our own historical era, the character of urgency is appropriate as global warming is now an inescapable horizon. In the face of ecological and social catastrophe, the concept of climate justice, introduced by Tokar himself, is more relevant than ever.
We are also discussing the city and the possibility of building networks of solidarity and direct democracy in the urban fabric, recreating the free public space with democratic institutions of self-government. Rousopoulosā account of his experience, from the self-managed neighbourhood of Milton Parc in Montreal, and the project of libertarian minucipalism is a historical legacy for contemporary movements.
We undertook this project as we firmly believe that ecological and urban issues are vital to the present and future of our presence on the planet. And we have chosen to speak with these thinkers, who have been warning for decades about the destructive direction of our societies, proposing a radical way forward towards a direct-democratic and ecological social institution.
Participants in the dialogues: Ioanna Maravelidi, Peter Piperkov, Dimitris Roussopoulos, Alexandros Schismenos, Yavor Tarinski, Brian Tokar.
The many contributors to this volume explore the impacts of extreme weather events in Africa, the Caribbean and on Pacific islands, experiences of life-long defenders of the land and forests in Brazil, India, Indonesia, and eastern Canada, and efforts to halt the expansion of fossil-fuel infrastructure from North America to South Africa. They offer various perspectives on how a just transition toward a fossil-free economy can take shape, as they share efforts to protect water resources, better feed their communities, and implement new approaches to urban policy and energy democracy.
Climate Justice and Community Renewal uniquely highlights the accounts of people who are directly engaged in local climate struggles and community renewal efforts, including on-the-ground land defenders, community organizers, leaders of international campaigns, agroecologists, activist-scholars, and many others. It will appeal to students, researchers, activists, and all who appreciate the need for a truly justice-centered response to escalating climate disruptions.
The many contributors to this volume explore the impacts of extreme weather events in Africa, the Caribbean and on Pacific islands, experiences of life-long defenders of the land and forests in Brazil, India, Indonesia, and eastern Canada, and efforts to halt the expansion of fossil-fuel infrastructure from North America to South Africa. They offer various perspectives on how a just transition toward a fossil-free economy can take shape, as they share efforts to protect water resources, better feed their communities, and implement new approaches to urban policy and energy democracy.
Climate Justice and Community Renewal uniquely highlights the accounts of people who are directly engaged in local climate struggles and community renewal efforts, including on-the-ground land defenders, community organizers, leaders of international campaigns, agroecologists, activist-scholars, and many others. It will appeal to students, researchers, activists, and all who appreciate the need for a truly justice-centered response to escalating climate disruptions.
With contributors from: Bolivia, Puerto Rico, India, Brazil, Nigeria, South Africa, Italy, Canada and across the US.
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