The EcoSocialist is an individual socialist blog.
I believe that socialism holds to the key to reversing our mad trajectory to environmental and social chaos.
My aim is to translate ecosocialist concepts and theories into concrete political ideas – ideas that can become a platform for a transition to environmental sanity and a socialist society.
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Agriculture, COP28 and a just transition
The COP28 conference in November 2023 was the first of the COPs to say anything serious about agriculture. Before the conference, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) put out a document on food and climate change. At the conference, over 150 countries signed a declaration on “sustainable agriculture”. Of course, the big agricultural…
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Gaza massacres and the climate movement
Many climate activists have condemned the massacre of civilians in Gaza by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). But the Hamas atrocities in southern Israel and the IDF’s horrific bombing campaign in Gaza have evoked sharp differences in some sections of the climate movement. The climate change movement stands with oppressed, vulnerable, exploited people everywhere. Support…
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Low expectations for COP28
In the past, COP meetings were events where climate protesters met with world leaders, made critical comments about them, and leaders tried hard to look good. But many activists no longer have hope in high level lobbying of leaders. They have realized that the leaders don’t take much notice of what protesters say. Indeed, leaders…