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

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A plan to save the earth and bring the good life to all "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 radically 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. "Conclusively demonstrates how a livable 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 "Read this book if you not only dream of saving the world but want a plan for how to do it." Ziya Tong, author of The Reality Bubble "Finally, the book we have been waiting for. We 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, artist and author of Dead Meat [logo] SUBJECT LINE [INITIAL CAP ONLY]: Environment / Politics RETAIL PRICES [DOMESTIC MARKET FIRST]: $19.95 / £9.99 / $25.95 CAN versobooks.com ISBN-13: 978-1-80429-038-5 '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

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A plan to save the earth and bring the good life to all Over the next generation, humanity will confront a dystopian future of climate disaster and mass extinction. Yet the only "solutions" on offer are toothless cap-and-trade programs, catastrophic geoengineering schemes, and privatized conservation, which will do nothing to reverse the damage suffered by the biosphere. Indeed, these mainstream approaches assume that consumption in the Global North can continue unabated. It can't. What we can do, environmental scholars Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass argue, is strive for a society able to provide a comfortable standard of living while stabilizing the environment: half-earth socialism. This means: - Rewilding half the Earth to absorb carbon emissions and restore biodiversity. - A rapid transition to renewable energy, paired with drastic cuts in consumption by the world's wealthiest. - Global veganism to cut down on energy and land use. - Worldwide socialist planning to efficiently and equitably manage production. - The involvement of everyone - even you! As this thrilling and provocative book makes clear, we must humbly accept that we cannot fully understand or control the Earth - but we can control our economic system, and we can regulate energy and land use for the common good.

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