Below are a couple of articles on Ecosocialism for people who just want to read about it or are interested in it.  It’s a new model of solving the climate crisis with something besides capitalism, which is based on selling as many things as possible in order to make as high a profit as possible. Waste is built into capitalism to the point where it is seen as a plus.   Anyone who has seen Michael Moore’s movie called “Capitalism” knows this economic system is killing us, and you can’t solve climate change with the free market, while making lots of money.  See the video “The Story of Stuff” too,  for why it’s impossible to continue on with this model and still stop climate change.   We can either have growth and capitalism, many believe, or we can stop climate change, but we can’t do both.

There are many resources online for people interested in ecosocialism that explain why it should be the model of the future.  The current model of using our planet to make things that we throw away to make more and more things, using tons of energy in the process, shipping them all over the world — isn’t working anymore.

People should get back in touch with nature and appreciate our planet, basic as that may sound. President Obama agrees with that, and is creating a Conservation Summit. Great idea!   Naturally, anti-nature corporate types will ridicule the idea and call it “socialist”. The fact is that eco-socialism might be the best option for a new economic model as we attempt to stop and/or adapt to climate change.

Anti-capitalism and climate justice

by Esther Vivas

Today, climate change is an undeniable reality. The political, social and media impact of the Copenhagen Summit in December 2009 was a good proof of this. A summit that showed the inability of the capitalist system to give a credible response to a crisis that it has itself created. Green capitalism offers a series of technological solutions (nuclear power, capture of carbon from the atmosphere to be stored, biofuels and so on) that will have a major social and environmental impact. These are false solutions to climate change that try to hide the structural causes that have led us to the current crisis situation and raise the contradiction between the short term calculations of capital and the long rhythms of ecological equilibrium.

In this context, a movement able to challenge the dominant discourse of green capitalism, recognising the impact and the responsibility of the current model of capitalist production, distribution and consumption and linking the global climate threat with everyday social problems is urgent. Copenhagen saw the increased expression of the movement for climate justice, precisely to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the mobilizations against the WTO [...]