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Toward Climate Justice: Perspectives on the Climate Crisis and Social Change Paperback – August 7, 2014

by Brian Tokar (Author), Eirik Eiglad (Foreword)
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The call for Climate Justice promises a renewed grassroots response to the climate crisis. This emerging movement is rooted in land-based and urban communities around the world that have experienced the most severe impacts of global climate changes. Climate Justice highlights the social justice and human rights dimensions of the crisis, using creative direct action to press for real, systemic changes. Toward Climate Justice explains the case for Climate Justice, challenges the myths underlying carbon markets and other false solutions, and looks behind the events that have obstructed the advance of climate policies at the UN and in the US Congress. This fully revised edition includes numerous updates on current climate science and politics worldwide. Drawing on more than three decades of political engagement with energy and climate issues, author Brian Tokar shows how the perspective of social ecology can point the way toward an ecological reconstruction of society.

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"An important book by an important writer on the most important challenge the planet has ever faced. We can meet that challenge -- and in the process come closer to building a just society -- but it will take real focus and real movement-building, which this fine volume helps push us toward!" - Bill McKibben (via email to New Compass Press, 11/26/14)

"It is time that all people understand why the efforts to mitigate the climate crisis have failed to date, what needs to be done now and how the social transformation which will bring about the necessary changes works. Brian Tokar's newly revised Toward Climate Justice: Perspectives on the Climate Crisis and Social Change does just that and that's why I recommend it as essential reading for everyone. It provides facts and explanations to counter the current misinformation about climate change and the proposed solutions to the climate crisis." - Margaret Flowers, popularresistance.org

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Brian Tokar is a lecturer in Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont. Since the 1980s he is an activist, author and well-known critical voice for ecological activism. He serves on the board of 350-Vermont, and is currently the Director of the Institute for Social Ecology. Tokar has lectured throughout the U.S., as well as internationally, and is acclaimed as an advocate of grassroots action for ecological sanity and global justice. He received a Project Censored award for his investigative history of Monsanto, originally published in The Ecologist, and he has contributed to "The Routledge Handbook of the Climate Change Movement," "A Line in the Tar Sands," and other recent books.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ New Compass Press; 2nd Revised and Expanded ed. edition (August 7, 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 182 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 8293064080
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-8293064084
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.06 x 0.41 x 7.81 inches
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Brian Tokar has been an activist, author and a well-known critical voice for ecological activism since the 1980s. He is currently the Director of the Institute for Social Ecology (social-ecology.org) and a lecturer in Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont. Brian's books include The Green Alternative (1987, revised 1992), Earth for Sale (1997), and Toward Climate Justice: Perspectives on the Climate Crisis and Social Change, originally published in 2010, and revised and expanded in 2014. He edited two books on the politics of biotechnology, Redesigning Life? and Gene Traders, and co-edited (with Fred Magdoff) the recent collection, Agriculture and Food in Crisis: Conflict, Resistance and Renewal (Monthly Review Press). He serves on the board of 350-Vermont, and his articles on environmental issues and popular movements appear in Z Magazine and Green Social Thought, as well as on websites such as Counterpunch, ZNet, and Toward Freedom.

Brian has lectured throughout the U.S., as well as internationally, and is acclaimed as an advocate of grassroots action for ecological sanity and global justice. He received a Project Censored award for his investigative history of Monsanto (originally published in The Ecologist), and was an organizer of the annual “Biojustice” protests against the biotechnology industry from 2000 - 2007. He is a contributor to the Routledge Handbook of the Climate Change Movement, A Line in the Tar Sands, and other recent books. Brian holds concurrent degrees from MIT in biology and physics, and a Masters degree in biophysics from Harvard University.

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D. Kyle
5.0 out of 5 stars Rising CO2 = Rising Tide and and an Unsustainable Planet
Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2015
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Anyone who reads this book and doesn't become an activist for in the struggle for a sustainable planet hasn't really read it. The book is well documented and well written. Brian brings out the problem we have with our system...capitalism. He states that infinite growth on a finite planet is not sustainable. The corporate world is winning...so far. This is a not to be overlooked book for anyone concerned about the environment. Many sources are quoted to back-up claims of a 2 deg. C rise in average global temperature is not one that most species can live with. This is a subject that's not easy to write or read about, but is a must read. Indigenous people are shown to be on the front lines of the battle. They are effected the most by climate change, have done the least to cause it and deserve our backing. That is just a tiny bit of Brian's story.

Eric Brattstrom, Warren VT
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Carol L. Noyes
5.0 out of 5 stars A Unique Perspective on Climate Change
Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2017
Brian Tokar’s book on climate justice stands out from other books on climate change because he brings his unique perspective on Social Ecology to the topic. Brian was a student and friend of the late Murray Bookchin, cofounder of the Institute for Social Ecology, whose book Our Synthetic Environment, came out even before Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, which most people view as the first book to put environmentalism and ecology on the map. Brian’s book belongs on every climate activist’s shelf as a reference book because he has researched and written about all the UN Climate Conferences and their failings, beginning with the Kyoto Protocol in 1997. He talks about false solutions promoted by the UN Climate Conferences, such as the promotion of biofuels and use of carbon offsets. He also discusses the development of alternative groups, such as the Climate Justice Now network, that challenge the current climate policies and work towards creating climate justice. My favorite slogan in the book was that of the Ecuadorian Yasuni Park campaigners against oil drilling: “Leave the oil in the soil, the coal in the hole, and the tar sands in the land.” I have seen firsthand how people of the poorer countries in the south have been unfairly hurt by the overuse of fossil fuels by northern countries. I sponsor three children in Haiti and their letters to me speak of the devastation that hurricanes Sandy and Matthew have wreaked upon their lands. Hurricanes fueled by warmer ocean temperatures are much more intense now. The book ends with a message of hope that the idealistic, utopian visions of social ecologists, combined with the wisdom of indigenous communities for living in harmony on the earth, can form a unified movement towards a world of balance. It is the visionaries who will change the world by creating a sound alternative to the failed capitalistic system.
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Emily Lanxner
5.0 out of 5 stars This book offers a great perspective on the climate crisis
Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2014
This book offers a great perspective on the climate crisis, especially for motivating people to actually stand up and do something to work for justice. It is filled with detailed source materials and information about many aspects that have shaped the current situation. The biggest impact this book had on me was to help me grasp the fact that there are millions of people on the planet today who are already living in marginalized circumstances as a result of climate disasters, and they are not the ones who have caused the problem. It is time to work for change while there still might be time to salvage something for future generations on our fragile planet.
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Joseph Gainza
5.0 out of 5 stars This combination makes his book a good source of both the science and the worldwide struggle ...
Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2014
Brian Toker is both a scholar and activist. He is equally at home in the classroom and on the streets. This combination makes his book a good source of both the science and the worldwide struggle to slow down and stop the destructive effects of climate change. This is no ivory tower rumination but the insights of an educator who organizes for social, economic and climate justice.
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eleanor finley
5.0 out of 5 stars Tokar's book provides an inspiring account of the global Climate ...
Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2014
Tokar's book provides an inspiring account of the global Climate Justice Movement as well as a thoughtful, thorough debunking of the false, market-based solutions proposed by many powerful global stakeholders.

This is an essential book for young climate justice activists as well as scholars wanting to study contemporary climate and ecology-based movements.
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Federico Venturini
5.0 out of 5 stars This new edition broadens our understanding of the environmental crisis ...
Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2014
This new edition broadens our understanding of the environmental crisis that we are facing and analyze the social-political implications. Social Ecology is then proposed as an inavuable tool to help social change.
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C. Martin
5.0 out of 5 stars Climate common sense-good addition to Environment classes!
Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2011
As a professor of Environmental Issues, I highly recommend Brian Tokar's Toward Climate Justice. He writes concisely and gives us the wakeup call we need. He is a scientist with a sense of economic justice. This book is an inexpensive way to get students in Environmental courses thinking about the steps we must take to reverse climate change and environmental catastrophe before it's too late.
George Longenecker
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