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Half-Earth Socialism Troy Vettese

Half-Earth Socialism By Troy Vettese

Half-Earth Socialism by Troy Vettese

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A plan to save the earth and bring the good life to all

Half-Earth Socialism Summary

Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics by Troy Vettese

'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 Insecurity

Half-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

Half-Earth Socialism Reviews

Half-Earth Socialism conclusively demonstrates how a liveable future requires a fundamentally different relationship to the Earth, the only home our species has ever known. A must read for post-capitalists and those who care about the climate crisis. -- Aaron Bastani, author of Fully Automated Luxury Communism
The best way to subvert a dystopia is to plan a utopia. In Half-Earth Socialism, Vettese and Pendergrass delve into this vital work of practical dreaming. So what does a better world look like? Blending science, history, philosophy and fiction, the authors thoughtfully chart a possible future to avert the worst impacts of the climate crises. Importantly, beyond climate mitigation and adaptation, this book tackles the critical need to address large-scale system change. Read this book if you not only dream of saving the world, but want a plan for how to do it. -- Ziya Tong, science broadcaster and author of The Reality Bubble
Finally, the book we have been waiting for. A real plan, simple and elegant. Half the planet is re-wilded. Within the vision of this book, is admirable forensic research, the science, that can power a vegan socialist world. Up to now, the capitalization of nature, has successfully delivered profit for the few, at the expense of all life. Capital is indifferent to the cries from slaughterhouses, the roar of anguish of burning forests, the animals who cannot flee infernos and flooding, sea creatures drowning in oceans of plastic and chemicals. The neo liberal capitalist ship sails on, a soulless machine, extracting humanity from humans. We can no longer see many stars through the haze of pollutants, but the stars shine on, within the idea of utopian socialism. We don't don't want to go to the stars as colonizing billionaires, we want to see the stars. This remarkable book, points the way. -- Sue Coe, artivist, author of Dead Meat, Cruel, and Sheep of Fools
Vegan cookbook meets Minecraft, starring an economist of the Munich soviet republic as unlikely hero - here is a book unlike any you've read. Half-Earth Socialism flips the age of dystopias into a renewal of the genre of utopia. Unlikely to suit everyone's taste, it empowers readers to write their own recipes for a future in peril: an exercise in democracy few books have dared to undertake. -- Andreas Malm, author of Fossil Capital
Capitalism is clearly destroying the planet. If socialists want to offer a real alternative to profit-driven catastrophe, they need to rethink deeply ingrained assumptions and abandon ruinous habits. Building a society that operates within ecological constraints requires an unleashing of our political imaginations, and this book helps us do just that. You may not agree with every word of this bold and provocative book, but it raises urgent and necessary questions that the left must grapple with before it's too late. -- Astra Taylor, author of Democracy May Not Exist, but Well Miss it When Its Gone
Moves fluidly between sharp polemic, technical detail and utopian climate fiction...Vettese and Pendergrass add weight to a growing movement of socialist environmentalists who put economic planning at the core of their proposals. -- Chris Saltmarsh * The Ecologist *
Refreshing ... Vettese and Pendergrass's is a humble utopia. There is solidarity, fulfilment, full bellies, and plenty of leisure time. Crucially, there is a climate in repair, which is more than enough to win me over in my darkest hours. -- Russell Warfield * Resurgence & Ecologist *
A radical vision of how to build a better world for all. -- Dan Carrier * Islington Tribune *
Revive[s] the utopian socialist tradition. -- Hema Vaishnavi Ale * LSE Review of Books *
Engaging -- Jack Kellam * The Oxonian Review *

About Troy Vettese

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.

Drew Pendergrass is a PhD student in Environmental Engineering at Harvard University. His current research uses satellite, aircraft and surface observations of the environment to correct supercomputer models of the atmosphere. His environmental writing has been published in Harper's, the Guardian, Jacobin, and Current Affairs.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Binding Prometheus
2. A New Republic
3. Planning Half-Earth
4. News from 2047
Epilogue: An Epoch of Rest

Acknowledgements
Appendix
Notes

Additional information

NGR9781804290385
9781804290385
1804290386
Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics by Troy Vettese
Troy Vettese
New
Paperback
Verso Books
2024-04-23
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