Who Will Build the Ark?: Debates on Climate Strategy from New Left Review - Paperback
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Who Will Build the Ark?: Debates on Climate Strategy from New Left Review - Paperback
$24.95
by Lola Seaton (Editor), Benjamin Kunkel (Editor)
What ecological politics should the left propose?
In Who Will Build the Ark?, leading radical thinkers debate left alternatives to runaway global heating, capitalist crisis and wider environmental breakdown, clarifying the stakes in today's key disputes between Green New Deal supporters and proponents of "degrowth." In a series of landmark texts first published by New Left Review, Herman Daly and Benjamin Kunkel discusses the possibility of an egalitarian, steady-state economy, while Robert Pollin warns against the worldwide slump "degrowth" could bring and calls instead for a single-issue campaign--2 per cent of global GDP dedicated to the switch to renewable energy--as the swiftest solution to the emissions crisis. Nancy Fraser envisages an eco-socialist exit from capitalism's multifold crises, while Troy Vettese advocates eco-austerity and half-earth rewilding. Lola Seaton draws out the strategic implications of these contested perspectives, in a set of unavoidable "green questions." In the realm of contemporary politics, Alyssa Battistoni writes on the dead-end of COP diplomacy, Cédric Durand asks whether energy shortages will derail the transition away from fossil fuels, and Thomas Meaney compares Green New Deal proposals to the pinched reality of Biden's Inflation Reduction Act. The world's major powers accept the likelihood of dangerous climate change, yet seem incapable of averting it. Can radical green models generate the social leverage needed to do so? Or, as Mike Davis puts it: Who will build the Ark?Author Biography
Benjamin Kunkel is the author of Indecision, Utopia or Bust and Buzz, a founding editor of n+1, and a member of the New Left Review editorial committee. He lives in Colorado.
Lola Seaton is an editor at New Left Review and a contributing writer at the New Statesman. She lives in London.
Number of Pages: 288
Dimensions: 0.7 x 9.2 x 6 IN
Publication Date: June 27, 2023
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