Toward Climate Justice

Perspectives on the Climate Crisis and Social Change

Brian Tokar

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.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Brian Tokar (1955-) has been an activist, author and a leading critical voice for ecological activism since the 1970s, and is the Director of the Vermont-based Institute for Social Ecology. Brian was the recipient of a 1999 Project Censored award for his investigative history of the Monsanto company (The Ecologist, Sept./Oct. 1998). His books include Earth for Sale, Toward Climate Justice, Redesigning Life? (ed.), and Crisis in Food and Agriculture: Conflict, Resistance and Renewal (co-edited with Fred Magdoff).

Language: English
Publisher: New Compass Press
Release year: 2014
Pages: 184
Formats: Paperback; Ebook
Print ISBN: 978-82-93064-08-4
Ebook ISBN: 978-82-93064-09-1

Table of Contents:

Introduction by Eirik Eiglad

Preface to the Revised Edition

1. Global Warming and the Struggle for Justice
2. The UN Climate Negotiations and Beyond
3. Toward a Movement for Climate Justice
4. Carbon Trading and Other False Solutions
5. On Utopian Aspirations in the Climate Movement
6. Social Ecology and the Future of Ecological Movements

 

"An important book by an important writer on the most important challenge the planet has ever faced. We can meet that challenge—and in the process come closer to building a just society—but it will take real focus and real movement-building, which this fine volume helps push us toward!"

— Bill McKibben, author Eaarth

Interview with Brian Tokar, in the New Compass magazine:

Interviewer: What makes your book special? Why is it needed?
Tokar: The book seeks to bring together, in one comprehensive and accessible volume, an analysis of the social justice dimensions of the present crisis, a critique of climate politics as currently practiced, and thoughts on how we can move beyond the despair of the present moment toward a more forward-looking, reconstructive outlook for the development of our movement and the transformation of society. It’s rooted in the holistic philosophical and political outlook of social ecology, which in my view offers the most promising framework for guiding our way forward.

Read the whole interview in the New Compass magazine

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