Political Ecologies.
All of the articles we have published under the tag Political Ecologies, beginning with the most recent.
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Reconsidering climate change intervention: a review of Holly Jean Buck’s ‘After Geoengineering’
Blending essay and fiction, Holly Jean Buck argues that ecosocialists must engage with new technologies
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Playing With Fire: Securing the Borders of a Green New Deal
Reviewing Naomi Klein's book "On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal", the author challenges Klein's view that the right can and should be useful in any challenge to ecological disaster.
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Resisting Green Colonialism: Lithium, Bolivia, and the Green New Deal
There are potential contradictions between decarbonisation in the Global North and the needs of communities in the Global South. How should we handle them?
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Economic Planning and Degrowth: How Socialism Survives the 21st Century
The economy is already planned, the task is for that planning to be based on democratic & ecosocialist values not profit.
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A Crisis With No Borders
The scale of the climate is global, but propositions on the left have largely confined themselves to the scale of the national and territoriality bounded - any Green New Deal must include free movement
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Climate Change and Capitalism: A Political Marxist View.
To solve the disastrous impact of capitalism on the climate, we need to understand that the economy, the energy system, and the environment are all inextricably linked.
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There's More to Life than This! An argument for joy, against economism.
Technocratic policy fixes and sci-fi fantasies won’t save us—ecological collapse calls us to rethink our attitudes to extraction, exploitation, and interconnection.
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Coal is the past: time to plan for the future.
Appeals to a fantasy past won't save us. We need to imagine—and plan for—a better, greener future.
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Against the New Vitalism.
Recent attempts to rehabilitate vitalism, despite claims to be radically ecological, are an example of how fascism re-appropriates the past in an attempt to colonise the future.