Climate Change as Class War av Matthew T. Huber

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<b>How to build a movement to confront climate change</b><br><br>The climate crisis is not primarily a problem of ‘believing science’ or individual ‘carbon footprints’ – it is a <i>class</i> problem rooted in who owns, controls and profits from material production. As such, it will take a class struggle to solve. In this ground breaking class analysis, Matthew T. Huber argues that the carbon-intensive capitalist class must be confronted for <i>producing</i> climate change. <br> <br>Yet, the narrow and unpopular roots of climate politics in the professional class is not capable of building a movement up to this challenge. For an alternative strategy, he proposes climate politics that appeals 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 need to dramatically transform. In t