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An urgent call for the political transformation needed to address the common causes of climate change, COVID-19, and racism.
“ . . . some big titles will address emergencies that have outlived Trump. The Path to a Livable Future by Stan Cox, explores the connections among the many crises of the past year and a half.”—Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times
2020 was a year defined by crisis. For decades, scientists have been sounding the alarm about the urgency of addressing climate change, but it took COVID-19 to demonstrate clearly that the future of human life on Earth is interconnected and at risk. While the virus quickly spread across the globe, extreme weather events compounded the suffering and economic catastrophe. In the U.S., public demonstrations of outrage over the murder of George Floyd expanded to include a growing awareness of the pandemic’s disproportionate impact on communities of color. In cities around the world, people took to the streets to protest racial inequity in all of its forms.
In The Path to a Livable Future, Stan Cox makes plain the connections between the multiple crises facing us today, and provides an inspired vision for how to resolve them. With a deeply informed, clear to-do list, Cox shows us how we can work together to address the climate emergency, white supremacy, and our vulnerability to future pandemics all at once. Our future depends on it.
’An iconoclast of the best kind, Stan Cox has an all-too-rare commitment to following arguments wherever they lead, however politically dangerous that turns out to be.’—Naomi Klein
’Cox lays out a refreshingly grounded roadmap for the survival of all life on earth, based on up-to-date science, and anchored in the racial justice imperative.’—Leah Penniman, co-founder of Soul Fire Farm, author of Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land
’Above all, he shows that a healthy, just, sustainable future is possible if we reduce our ecological footprint and share the earth’s gifts equitably. For this we need to organize, resist, imagine, and forge another path together.’—Vandana Shiva, author of Who Really Feeds the World?: The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology
Spis treści
The Path to a Livable Future
A NEW POLITICS TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE, RACISM, AND THE NEXT PANDEMIC
BY STAN COX
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
The Cruelest Year
The Tangled Roots of Our Predicaments
A To-Do List for the 2020s
Can We Beat the Odds?
Endnotes
About the Author
O autorze
Zenobia Jeffries Warfield is executive editor at YES! Media, a non-profit, independent publisher of solutions journalism, based in the Seattle area. An award-winning veteran journalist, Zenobia honed her skills as a reporter, managing editor, and editor for eight years at a community newspaper in her hometown Detroit. In addition to writing and editing, she has produced, directed, and edited short documentaries spotlighting community movements to international democracy. Zenobia directs coverage for YES! Magazine, YES! Media’s editorial and organizational partnerships, and serves as the organization’s chair of the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee.Więcej książek elektronicznych tego samego autora (ów) / Redaktor
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