The Socialist Solution to the Ecology Crisis
From International Trotskyist No. 4, Fall-Winter 1991.
Introductory Note: With the threat of global climate change becoming more dire each year, this article on socialism and the environment is even more relevant and important today than when it was first published in 1991. It explains why capitalism is inherently incapable of preventing or significantly mitigating the potentially catastrophic effects of climate change.
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