For the last two years I put together all my favorite ecosocialist reads of that year. Well here is my 2024 edition!
First, @adriennebuller.bsky.social’s @the-breakdown.bsky.social is my favorite new podcast & place for anti-capitalist ecological thought. Give it a read & listen!
https://www.break-down.org
First, @adriennebuller.bsky.social’s @the-breakdown.bsky.social is my favorite new podcast & place for anti-capitalist ecological thought. Give it a read & listen!
https://www.break-down.org
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Kai is a favorite writers & thinker on political ecology. I really look forward to his forthcoming book.
FUCK ecomodernism & ecomodernists.
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/forget-eco-modernism?srsltid=AfmBOorJNZHyby8NAkgnbicNPhzDrw3bPGFqjpzMY4RymBXiUYGDweg2
It helped me think about how culture is vital for eco-politics & how the right will defend to the death all our current destructive practices
https://salvage.zone/the-great-driving-right-show/
John Bellamy Foster goes through painstaking detail & critique to expose these clowns
https://monthlyreview.org/2024/11/01/the-new-denial-of-imperialism-on-the-left/
“The degrowthers are right: There needs to be a lot less stuff produced & for anyone w/ the least sense of justice, this means rich countries consuming less & poor countries more.” https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/growth-degrowth-kohei-saito-susskind/
“Degrowth is the liferings beside the river”
Part 1: https://medium.com/the-new-climate/we-need-to-talk-about-degrowth-part-i-a8f555461878
Part 2: https://medium.com/the-new-climate/we-need-to-talk-about-degrowth-part-ii-4d71c44067b9
In this piece by the great @katearonoff.bsky.social, she reminds us of a very simple point: global warming is global. It does not care about borders. It does not care about cities being marketed as “climate havens.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/186526/hurricane-helene-asheville-climate-havens
Why keep getting stuck on "either, or" when the real world is higher-dimensional than that, and babies get thrown out with bath water (or swept under carpets) when we stop forgetting that complexity is the rule, and our bipolar thinking is MERELY OURS.