Half-Earth Socialism - A Plan to Save Future From Extinction, Climate Change Pandemics

'Building a society that operates within ecological constraints requires an unleashing of our political imaginations, and this book helps us do just that'-Astra Taylor, author of The Age of InsecurityHalf-Earth Socialism is a radical call to action to save the planet, including trenchant proposals to rewild half the earth to absorb carbon emissions and restore biodiversity; rapidly transition to renewable energy, paired with drastic cuts in consumption; and shift to global veganism to reduce energy and land use. As this thrilling and provocative book makes clear, we must humbly accept that humanity cannot fully understand or control the earth - but we can plan new energy systems, large-scale rewilding, and food production for the common good.'Half-Earth Socialism embraces the hardest choices, the most exacting ecological constraints, and thinks with them to reinvent climate utopianism'-Richard Seymour, New Statesman'Vegan cookbook meets Minecraft ... flips the age of dystopias into a renewal of the genre of utopia ... empowers readers to write their own recipes for a future in peril'-Andreas Malm, author of Fossil Capital'A remarkable manifesto ... that envisages the immediate liberation of the entire world from the grip of capitalist exploitation'-Le Monde diplomatique

About the author

Troy Vettese is an environmental historian and a Max Weber fellow at the European University Institute, where he is affiliated with the ECOINT project. He studies the history of environmental economics, energy-systems, and animal life under capitalism. His writing has appeared in Bookforum, New Left Review, the Guardian, n+1 and many other popular and scholarly publications.

Product details

• Authors: Drew Pendergrass, Troy Vettese, Troy Pendergrass Vettese
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.04.2024
• EAN: 9781804290385
• ISBN: 978-1-80429-038-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, Environmental Economics, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies and movements