Climate Change and Capitalism in Australia: An Eco-Socialist Vision for the Future

This book explores Australian capitalism as a driver of climate change and the relationship between corporations, the Coalition, and Australian Labor parties. It examines the climate politics at the margins, including the Greens, labor union, environmental NGOs, and grassroots climate movement, and advocates for system-challenging transitional steps to shift Australia toward an eco-socialist vision.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 240 pages
\n Publication date: 30 September 2021
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Recognizing that climate politics has been an increasingly contentious and heated topic in Australia over the past two decades, this book examines Australian capitalism as a driver of climate change and the nexus between the corporations and Coalition and Australian Labor parties. As a highly developed country, Australia is punching above its weight in terms of contributing to greenhouse gas emissions despite rising temperatures, droughts, water shortages, raging bushfires, storm surges, and flooding, and the bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef. Drawing upon both archival and ethnographic research, Hans Baer examines Australian climate politics at the margins, namely the Greens, the labor union, the environmental NGOs, and the grass-roots climate movement. Adopting a climate justice perspective, which calls for system change, not climate change, as opposed to the conventional approach of seeking to mitigate emissions through market mechanisms and techno-fixes, particularly renewable energy sources, this book posits system-challenging transitional steps to shift Australia toward an eco-socialist vision in keeping with a burgeoning global socio-ecological revolution. Accessibly written and including an interview with renowned comedian and climate activist Rod Quantock OAM, this book is essential reading for academics, students, and general readers with an interest in climate change and climate activism.

\n Weight: 392g\n
Dimension: 154 x 234 x 22 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781032064888\n \n