We have a weekly environmental column in Solidarity, and hundreds of climate articles on our website. There are countless books we might recommend, beyond those reviewed and mentioned so in the pamphlet. But there are a few notable areas which we wanted to cover in this pamphlet, but couldn’t because of space.
What is the ruling class likely to do in response to climate change, in the coming decades? We read and discussed a book, Climate Leviathan, that we were heavily critical of, but which is nonetheless thought provoking. See two reviews: “Against Leviathan, a workers’ plan” and “Four climate futures”.
How may global warming play out? David Wallace-Wells’ The Uninhabitable Earth attempts to sketch answers. “Climate disaster is already with us” is a review of this book. There have been some critical replies, and a debate, following this. The interlocutors both agree the book is worth reading. See the articles.
Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming by Andreas Malm attempts to chart the rise of steam power and its links to the develop- ment of capitalism. We are critical of much of his pol- itics. See workersliberty.org/malm-debate for several differing reviews on Malm’s writings, a debate, plus a critical study guide.
Degrowth? What should socialists advocate? We read and discussed several different readings on “Degrowth” from a Marxist perspective. The recordings from the reading group have to be published soon, and more articles are in the pipeline. Check out workersliberty.org/readings-degrowth for the readings we discussed — future articles may be linked from there.
The climate, and related science, politics, and activism are constantly changing. This pamphlet will start going out of date as soon as we publish it. We work to make that happen: to build a climate movement to move us onto a different track. Below are ways to keep up to date:
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The following articles were in the
third edition of our pamphlet, but were removed for the fourth edition:
See our Broadsheet: How Socialists Think We Can Solve Climate Change