Contents

• Carlo Fanelli
  Climate Change, Food Crises & Socialist Reimaginings

  “As continuing food shortages expand onwards in scale and scope, the usual strategy of blaming the victims for over-population, insufficient investment in human capital, or simply because they lack a ‘protestant ethic’ to work hard, despite being theoretically and empirically vacuous, continues to hold sway.”

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• Richard Greeman
  Ecotopia: A Bet You Can’t Refuse

  “The men who rule the world today are the officers of a ship drifting rudderless toward a rocky shore, busy looting the cargo, locking up the passengers and crew below decks and fighting among themselves for the booty. The only hope is that the passengers and crew can figure out a way to get organized and take over the bridge before it is too late.”

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• Peter Lach-Newinsky
  Doomed to Consciousness: 13 Mildly Millennial Theses on Climate Chaos

  “The planetary process of deep social change needed to prevent run-away climate chaos and adapt to now inevitable climate change amounts to a deep cultural and spiritual revolution in the human psyche itself.”

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• Salvatore Folisi
  Technology, Human Beings and the Fate of the Earth: A Social Critique Of Modern Life

  “Because we have created our own processed environment of roads, cars, industry, buildings, malls, homes; because we live in a world designed by capitalism, a world of incessant advertising, sales and the desperate, frantic pursuit of material things; we rarely, if ever, experience an intimate connection with the natural world we are hoping to save.”

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• Michael Barker
  Saving Trees and Capitalism Too

  “Describing a group funded by the world’s leading capitalist elites as grassroots demonstrates how desperately well-meaning environmentalists cling to the illusion that by working with capitalists (not the grassroots) they will be able to counter the destruction wrought on the planet by capitalists (evidently for the benefit of the grassroots).”

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• Kenneth Couesbouc
  The Gardener’s Spirit

  “By mid-century the specious questions concerning human destiny had been settled. Wealth became the only point of life, wealth at any price, wealth and the power it buys. Humanity embarked on a wild race for more, and the world’s diverse materiality was reduced to money. When the gods die of disbelief, the realm of matter is epitomised as gold.”

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• Shepherd Bliss
  In Praise of Fallen Leaves – Let Them Be!

  “A life without visible fallen leaves afoot, especially in the fall, is missing something important. A leafless town is a lifeless town. Fallen leaves remind us of the natural birth/grown/death cycle.”

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• Karyn Strickler
  Carbon Cuts: 350 Is Not Adequate

  “If we’re organizing around a goal that is too little, too late, with the survival of humanity hanging in the balance, we not just wasting time, we’re toying with our own annihilation.”

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• Ian Angus
  Ecosocialism: For a Society of Good Ancestors!

  “In short, pollution is not an accident, and it is not a ‘market failure.’ It is the way the system works.”

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• Peter Lach-Newinsky
  Thirty Three Historical Theses on Ecocide and Its Utopian Abolition

  “In its current neo-liberal phase, industrial capitalism is seeking to even further privatise, ‘enclose’, commodify and exploit the last remaining niches and refuges of evolved life, wildness and the human commons.”

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• Carl Finamore
  San Francisco Readies for a Major Labor Dispute

  “If the bosses delay negotiations longer, other local contracts will expire and hotel workers in other major cities will also work together to establish common expiration dates and common bargaining objectives.”

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• Little Big Pine
  The Poetry Will Be Waiting (Poetry)

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