num_pages: 320
description: Why the struggle against climate change is a class struggleThe climate crisis is not primarily a problem of believing science or individual carbon footprintsit is a class problem rooted in who owns controls and profits from material production. As such it will take a class struggle to solve.In this groundbreaking class analysis Matthew T. Huber argues that the carbon-intensive capitalist class must be confronted for producing climate change. Yet the narrow and unpopular roots of climate politics in the professional class is not capable of building a movement to face this challenge. For an alternative strategy he proposes climate politics that will appeal to the vast majority of society: the working-class. Huber evaluates the Green New Deal as a first attempt to channel working class material and ecological interests and advocates building union power in the very energy system we so need to dramatically transform. In the end as in classical socialist movements of the early twentieth Century winning the climate struggle will require an internationalist approach based on a form of planetary working class solidarity.
language: English
title: Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet
publisher: Verso