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Why We Need Socialism
Our Changing Climate
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wiped from the face of the Earth record heat waves Drive thousands
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of death hurricane otus
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killing hundreds and soil degradation
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is at an all-time
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high a crisis at the scale
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this world has never seen
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is no longer at our doorstep
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it's now crashing through the threshold
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and threatening to pull us down into climate chaos
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and our current political
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and economic Solutions just aren't measuring up to the scale of this crisis
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we need to chart A New Path forward
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one that heals the vast Gulf that is opened up between humanity
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and nature we need
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ecosocialism but what exactly does that mean
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why is ecosocialism the answer
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today we dive into the inner workings of ecosocialism
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in order to uncover
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why socialism is necessary
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to avoid planetary disaster
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what linear programming has to do with rewilding
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why Cuba could unlock
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answers to cutting emissions
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and why this diagram
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is crucial to Healing our connection with the planet
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OCC videos that I haven't released on YouTube including my most recent bonus video
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on the ecological impact of Soviet planning
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as well as an hour and 20 minute interview
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with the authors of half- Earth
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socialism soil is the foundation
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of life a vibrant
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ecosystem teaming with organisms
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upon which Humanity has built their success
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agronomists know this farmers
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know this and yet this knowledge seems to be forgotten
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here in the barren fields
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of Minnesota's corn Farms
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monocultures of corn and soybean
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rip the soil clean of organic
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matter and nutrients demanding
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increasing amounts of fertilizer
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and pesticides to maintain
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yields but Farms like this aren't outliers
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they're Common Place worldwide
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declining soil health is one of the many alarm Bells signaling
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that our planet is on the brink of ecological
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collapse and behind it all lies
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capitalism under capitalism human labor transforms
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nature extensively in the pursuit
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of profit and capital accumulation
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this Relentless quest of transforming
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nature into marketable Goods disrupts
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the cycle of production
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and reproduction in nature
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or in other words
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Nature's metabolism as Marx writes in the first volume of capital
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all progress in capitalist
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agriculture is a progress in the art not only of robbing the worker but
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of robbing the soil
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so the deg ation of soil Health across the world
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isn't a symptom of human nature it's instead
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driven by the rampant hunger of capitalism
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throughout history there has always been a metabolic
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interaction between humans and their natural environments
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whether through Gathering or cultivation
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we have worked the land to sustain
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ourselves up until the capitalist mode of production
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however that which we extracted
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has been replenished whether through manure
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food scraps or clothing made from natural materials
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consequent quently ecosystems while certainly
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Disturbed were never shattered
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however capitalist production smashed
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this metabolic cycle it privatized
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common land forcing peasants from farms into the city
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survival was no longer based on how well you tended to the land and
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grow food but instead
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how big your wages
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were food was thus grown in the countryside
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and sold and shipped
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via markets to sustain growing urban populations
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now working under a capitalist
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wage labor system in this process capitalist
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production prevents the return of the soil of its constituent
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elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing
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hence it hinders the operation
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of the Eternal natural
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condition for the lasting fertility
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of the soil in essence the fundamental
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workings of capitalism directly
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contradict the regenerative processes
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of nature this is what ecosocialist
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scholar John Bellamy Foster
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calls the metabolic Rift
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capitalist production continuously extracts
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minerals nutrients and organic matter from the earth trans transforming them into commodities
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for profit and never completes the cycle by returning those extracted
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materials to the soil
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this Perpetual extraction without replenishment
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represents one of the fundamental
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contradictions of capitalism and is part of the reason why we're experiencing
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climate chaos right now so we need a new economic
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system one that prioritizes
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the well-being of humanity
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and nature over the accumulation
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of profits and capital
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and that system is
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in 2020 the world needed to cut emissions
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by 7.6% every year in order to stay below
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1.5° cius of warming
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that same year the covid-19
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pandemic hit State actors mobilized
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massive plans to Halt the spread of disease
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which also happened to grind the economy to a halt
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and yet Global emissions
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only fell by 5.4%
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only to then quickly rebound
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as production kicked into high gear a year later the pandemic lays bare the
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destruction and incomp idence of our Global capitalist
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economy it reveals that even extreme
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austerity and forced consumption cuts under capitalism
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will never be enough to Stave off the worst of climate chaos
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capitalism cannot stop the climate crisis
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it cannot dismantle the fossil fuel industry
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nor can it halt the sixth mass extinction
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it can't do these things because it is the core driver
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of all of these crises
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but as much as we can recognize the growing Rift between human and nature
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born out of capitalism
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critiquing the present is not enough we must Envision
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a beautiful and realistic
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future one that excites us and helps fuel the fire of transition
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as environmental historian and author of half Earth socialism
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Troy vesse argues that having this Utopia
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this end goal is very useful because that actually glues
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together your Coalition that actually binds you together ecosocialism
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might just offer that powerful
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Vision that glues us all together it calls for a worker and peasant L
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Revolution that rips the ownership
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of production away from the Elite and puts decision-making
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power into the hands of the masses
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unlike capitalism which prioritizes
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decisions based on the endless creation of products to sell for more profit ecosocialism
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advocates for an economy that makes decisions based on the well-being
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of all people and the plan
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but what makes ecosocialism
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ecological most of these ideas of worker-led
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planning is well within the bounds of many socialist
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goals and visions and minely as Victor Wallace notes
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it's even redundant to put the Eco prefix on because socialism
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implies that you make decisions
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on the basis of what's in the interest of people
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and you can't legislate in the interest of people without taking into account the
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environment so while socialist goals often align
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with ecological concerns ecosocialism
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specifically emphasizes a democratically
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planned Economy based on social
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and ecological constraints planning is crucial not only for the ethical redistribution
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of wealth and knowledge sharing
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but also for living harmoniously
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with in our natural
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environments history though teaches us that there are many pitfalls
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in the planning process
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especially when it comes to environmental
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concerns just because you are striving for socialism
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like in the case of the Soviet Union doesn't necessarily
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mean that you will achieve ecological
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sustainability and if you're interested in learning more about Soviet planning
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I've uploaded a whole companion video to this one on nebula
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examining the environmental faults and successes
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of Soviet planning these past and present examples
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of the various forms of socialism
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show us that ecology
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whether species Extinction or climate change or ocean
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acidification all need to be foregrounded
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in the planning process if we were to avoid
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ecological destruction if left out of the picture
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socialist planning could very well drive us down the path of heavy industrial
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fossil fuel use so ecological
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planning is essential because capitalism
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with its market-driven Anarchy
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fails to account for ecological
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sustainability in any meaningful
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way capitalism has already failed
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as in capitalism is not going to get us out this mess
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we've been talking about climate change
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and let other environmental
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crises for more than uh three decades
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and things have gotten much worse
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so we know that capitalism
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has ripped the natural world apart and has failed to mend it back together
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an ecosocialist planned economy
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then is a necessary
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intervention if we were to truly heal the rift between
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human economies and the natural world
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but what exactly do those ecosocialist
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Futures look like imagine a world where you don't feel forced to go to
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your job just to put food on the table
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where climate collapse isn't driving every Global disaster
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a world where decisions
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about what products get made what public goods are free and accessible
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are carried out by everyday
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people not by CEOs
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and board members a world where community
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and chosen family are just a bike ride a high-speed train or a quick
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walk away living under capitalism
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it's easy to feel like these Visions are unrealistic
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or even utopian we know that capitalism
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isn't working for us and for the planet but it's hard to imagine
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an alternative we're caught between
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understanding the destructive logic of capitalism
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and struggling to engage
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with viable Alternatives perhaps
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that's part of capitalism's
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plan as author and educator Ashley C ford writes the goal of oppressors
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is to limit your imagination
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about what is possible
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without them so you might never imagine more for yourself and the world you
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live in this is why we need vibrant visions and debates not just about
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the destruction of capitalism
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not just about how we get to an ecological
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zeroc carbon world but also about what that world looks like when we get
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there Drew Pendergrass and Troy vess's
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book halfe socialism is an excellent example
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of envisioning a socialist
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ecological future addressing the sixth mass extinction
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the threat of global pandemics
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and the climate crisis
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halfe socialism calls for a socialist
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planned economy that hinges
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on the key parameters
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of land preservation minimizing
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emissions and a good life for all
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rather than What markets normally plan around
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monetary costs and profits
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more concretely the Tessa and Pendergrass
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call for half- Earth socialism
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that uses linear programming
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methods to set broadscale
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goals like veganism energy quotas enforc Rew Wilding and stewardship
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under indigenous control Pendergrass
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notes we could imagine
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feasible ways uh to use Simple algorithms
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to plan plausible ways of organizing
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society and then debate about what those
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plans look like at on various
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levels so we kind of Imagine a little federalism
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where we set broad
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coarse goals at a large level
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and then figure out in detail
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what that looks like as you go
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towards the more local level in the context of climate change
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socialist planning is crucial
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because it lets us understand exactly
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what we need to do at all levels
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as vesse argues okay soan
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or someone has a Tesla
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you know someone doesn't fly they great you know but
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what what is actually necessary
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and I think when you're in a market this is super opaque
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one really has no idea he goes on to add that with a planning
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model then you begin to think
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okay like how many
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how much energy can we use as a society
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or where are we getting our energy from how much land are we using
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with animal agriculture I wish that land could be remed
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you being to see these things in their totality
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which is difficult to do or impossible to do Under capitalis the reality is
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that any ecological socialist
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society will have tradeoffs
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to dramatically downscale the economy
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to preserve half of the world's ecosystems
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in a decolonial way while also redistributing
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wealth and energy to everyone in the world
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countries and especially the rich in the Imperial core
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will certainly have to cut down on production
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and consumption in the last chapter of their book vesse and Pendergrass
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reveal what this might look like through the idea of the gos plant
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an algorithmic planning tool
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that reveals the trade-offs
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that must be made in order to reach an ecological
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sound Society drawing on the work of Prior planning theorists
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and the power and capacity of new planning and modeling systems like climate models
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the authors Envision a central planning tool called gos plan using linear programming
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algorithms which are already used throughout a lot of the business World
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gos plant would spit out broad plans depending on which parameters
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are emphasized for example if we very simplistically
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input that we want to cut emissions
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by 7.6% every year rewi
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25% more land while maintaining
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a global good life all by 2030
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the gos plant might spit out a variety of plans ranging
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from more lenient energy quotas
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but faster uptake of vegetarian
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or vegan production and consumption
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or perhaps it might spit out a plan
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with more aggressive reing
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and aforestation instead or a more rapid increase
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in renewable production essentially
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it would mean thousands of planners and scientists
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would plug a massive amount of data into gos plant and model coar blueprints
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5 10 or even 25
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years into the future projecting
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what it would look like like to cut emissions
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rewi half the planet
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and redistribute wealth at different speeds
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and crucially those broad plans would be disseminated
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debated and transformed as they pass through global
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national and local levels
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in the last chapter of the book we get a brief glimpse of that
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future as fictional local Massachusetts
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planner Edith explains the folks down in Havana have made a few different plans
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for the next year assuming different energy quotas ensuring in each plan that nature
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is always respected and no one is Left Behind
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plan 5f is the most austere
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keeping consumption at about 750
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watts per person which includes all of the industrial
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production and Social Services required to keep Society Running
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for us she continued
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plan 5f means we can let a lot of pasture return to Wilderness
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rather than planting more of those terrible
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biofuel plantations Throughout the chapter the characters debate the various plans
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constantly because for ecosocialist
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planning to succeed it must be in constant motion
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it must be intensely
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transparent understandable accessible and subject to debate plans
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must come from everyone
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be formulated and run through modeling tools like the fictional Goss plant
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and then sent back to the masses in an endless cycle of construction
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and exploration but Pendergrass
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and vesse are just two thinkers in a vast world of ecosocialist
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ideas there are other Visions
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like those of Max Isle
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wherein green belts surround
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all cities as popular planning converts sprawling
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suburbs into Farm swarts
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high-speed trains link bigger C
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to smaller ones smaller ones to capillary
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lines leading to outlining
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hamlets Isles world prioritizes
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anti-imperialism and state sovereignty
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in the periphery ultimately
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as Max Isle writes ecosocialism
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aspires to egalitarian redistribution
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public ownership of the means of production
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respectful modest and Humane
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management of the human interaction
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with non-human nature and decommodification
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of social life globally
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not merely locally and it aspires to eliminate
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capitalism not merely locally
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but globally and it is explicitly
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Anti-Imperialist and pro- third world State sovereignty
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we need a solution that attacks the problem at the roote first of all
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and that also does not restrict itself
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to looking at a reconstruction
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of the United States and Europe but also looks
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towards uh the global South towards Latin America towards Africa towards Asia is's Vision
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seeks to mend the metabolic
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Rift of capitalism by shrinking
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the distance between urban production
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and rural land ending a system
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of extraction and embracing
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one of replenishment ideas that even Carl Marx was writing about a century and
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a half before Marx writes that it's not enough to just Liberate the worker
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for a truly just and liberated
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Society we must also heal our broken relationship
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with the land arguing that communal land ownership
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communism is the only way to heal the metabolic
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Rift as ecosocialist Scholars John Bellamy
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Foster and Brett Clark WR for marks the only lasting
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path to sustainability is the conscious
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and rational treatment of the land
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as permanent communal property
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or in other words the abolition
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of private landed property
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ecological sustainability is only a possibility
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in a future Society of associated
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producers a socialist society
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which could bring about a new and higher synthesis
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a union of Agriculture
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and Industry meanwhile authors at the Red Nation
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argue for an indigenous Le Global ecosocialism
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restoring land to indigenous caretakers
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is a necessary step towards ensuring any kind of future
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on this planet that future must be in my opinion
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a socialist one that foregrounds
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stewardship an end to Colonial occupation
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everywhere and an emphasis
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on mass action and non- reformist
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reforms From Below right now
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but we're very serious
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about you know a revolutionary
16:48
struggle and what it means to build a political program for that type of
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Revolution and as indigenous
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people we think that our environmental
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justice struggles and our struggles for climate Justice must also be respons Ive to
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the demands for abolition
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and divesting from those
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institutions we must reinvest
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in the common Dignity of all
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which means healing our bodies and healing our Earth they call for radical acts
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that weaken capitalist structures
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today while also building
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power to topple settler
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Colonial capitalism in the future
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this looks like immediate
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defunding of police immigration
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and military forces free sustainable
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housing Education Health Care and Mental Health Services
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enforcement of treaty rights reinvesting
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care work alongside land air and water restoration
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the red deal is a crucial
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intervention into ecosocialist Visions
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it shows that while it's important to have future Visions
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to hold on to the climate crisis
17:41
capitalism and colonialism are destroying
17:43
life and land right now
17:45
especially within oppressed communities
17:47
so we need serious harm prevention
17:49
immediately in the words of the Red Nation
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we cannot simply build isolated
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Utopias while the rest of the world Burns
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nor can we wait for the slow process of reformist
17:59
reform to kick in we cannot simply heal our individual
18:02
trauma nor can we consume better to save the environment
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we cannot vote harder
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and place all of our hope in a few individuals
18:09
in Congress climate change will kill us before any of these strategies
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Liberate the planet from capitalism
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despite their differences communal stewardship
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rational and ecological production
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and anti-imperialism are all through lines throughout these ecosocialist
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manifestos however these visions of ecosocialism
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are just that visions
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and blueprints imagined realities
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to hold on to as we chart the path towards ecological
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and political transition but there are realworld
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instances however flawed of ecosocialism
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in action and The Shining Star among them lies in the heart of the
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Caribbean battered on all sides by
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pressure nestled within Havana's
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concrete Skyline Li green rows
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of luscious vegetables an organic
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Urban Farm here in organon
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Lason Cooperative workers tend to the many rows of raised beds that feed their
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neighbors and surrounding City lasas
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a full-scale organic farm
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with minimal chemical and fossil fuel inputs
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is not an outlier
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in Havana it's the north but Cuban agriculture
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wasn't always like this Cuba's unique history forged
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this organic system through hardship
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and struggle for most of the first half of the 20th century Cuban agriculture
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was heavily industrialized monocrops
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of sugar cane Co
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the countryside as Cuba was forced to produce sugar for its Imperial
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colonizer the United States
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but after thrusting off the weight of imperialist
19:36
forces in 1959 with a triumphant
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socialist Revolution Cuba was ready for change
19:42
however much of Cuban agriculture
19:44
was still tooled towards High fossil fuel import
19:47
and high monoculture output
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up until the collapse of the Soviet Union
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Cuba still mainly grew sugar
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and traded exclusively with the Soviets for Staples
19:57
such as rice wheat tractors and gas
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but this system was dramatically
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upended in 1991 when the Soviet Union unraveled
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and the Imperial core maintained
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its trade embargo on Cuba
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the country was left isolated
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from oil staple foods and mechanized
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farming systems like tractors
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that had long been the Cornerstone
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of their Farms as a result Cuba entered
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what was deemed the special period
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journalist and author Bill McKibben
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writes that in 1989
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the average Cuban was eating about 3,000
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calories per day by 1992
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that plummeted to 1,900
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calories per day in short Cuba was starving
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because their semi-industrialized agricultural
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system was ripped out from under them and imperialist
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sanctions left them no other option but to look inward
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for a solution and the forces and organization
20:45
of socialist production bore them out of the crisis
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now on the other end of such a brutal crisis born out of imperialist
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aggression Cuba has transformed
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in Havana alone its residents converted
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35,000 hectares or 135
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Square mil of land into agriculturally
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productive space which is about the same as converting the area of six Manhattans
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into farming space but Havana
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is just a small part of Cuba's socialist
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Agricultural Revolution isolated from almost all trading partners
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Cubans either had to adapt
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or start through plans like comp pasino
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aino or farmer-to-farmer knowledge
21:23
sharing as well as Urban farming
21:25
initiatives Cuba pulled itself out of the depths of industrial
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fossil fuel intensive Agriculture
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and built a socialist
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agriculture that dramatically decreased
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emissions output while prioritizing
21:37
food access they moved from monocultures
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growing Commodities to Farms
21:42
growing food in the 1980s
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Cuba had more tractors
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per hectare than California
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but by the 2000s
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tractors were quickly replaced
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by over 400,000 oxen teams
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monocultures were replanted with polycultures
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crop diversity was valued
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for its ability to decrease pest pressure and encourage healthy soil fossil fuel Reliant
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techniques were replaced with sustainable
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and permaculture oriented systems
22:06
Organo panicos or the Cuban term for Urban Garden
22:10
proliferated widely using raised beds to grow healthy plants
22:15
on poisoned Urban soil
22:17
crucial to this regenerative
22:18
farming explosion was the comp pasino aino
22:21
or farmer to Farmer movement
22:23
the goal of this movement was for small farmers to share knowledge with each
22:27
other and integrate new sustainable
22:29
systems of Agriculture through social participation
22:32
mobilizing local resources and reverting to traditional
22:36
peasant knoow this Grassroots
22:38
knowledge building meant that as Aiden Ratchford
22:40
writes many small farmers were producing
22:42
80 to 100% of food necessary for family consumption
22:46
by 2011 and a Cooperative
22:49
jaguay Grande for example
22:51
produces 80% of food needs for the 60,000
22:54
residents of its municipality
22:56
by purposefully placing the needs of the people
22:59
like good healthy soil accessible food and control over what to grow
23:03
instead of emphasizing growing for commodity sale
23:06
like selling sugar cane to multinational
23:08
corporations Cuba has successfully
23:10
built an ecosocialist agriculture
23:12
Ratchford goes on to write a country
23:14
previously rying on Imports for 90%
23:17
of its food was able to feed itself through Urban
23:20
organic agriculture this movement
23:23
represents the largest conversion
23:25
from conventional to Alternative
23:26
organic agriculture in the world's
23:29
history Cuba reveals the possibilities
23:31
of an ecosocialist degrowth
23:33
future right now especially
23:35
when it comes to agriculture
23:36
it not only is deepening
23:38
the connection between its people and land through agroecological
23:42
and urban farming cooperatives
23:43
but it's done so while increasing
23:45
literacy food access and minimizing
23:47
fossil fuel use while by no means
23:49
the end goal Cuba's form of socialist
23:52
organization represents an ecosocialist
23:55
degrowth in action they're shortening
23:57
the distance between Factory
23:58
and field between humans
24:01
and the natural world but Cuba is constantly battered on all sides by the
24:05
forces of capitalism in order for ecosocialism
24:08
to take root it must spread out in all directions
24:11
and across the globe
24:13
and to achieve that
24:14
we need a plan
24:17
whether it was the US in 1776
24:20
Haiti in 1791 Russia in 1917
24:23
or Cuba in 1959
24:25
revolutions have always been the engines
24:27
of change the destruction of capitalism
24:30
will continue ever onward
24:31
until we actively disrupt it unfortunately
24:34
there is no Silver Bullet solution to achieving an ecosocialist
24:38
economy it will only come about from the long Collective struggle
24:41
of the workingclass and peasants taking control
24:44
of production this may happen peacefully
24:46
or involve violence especially if the capitalist elite are heavily entrenched
24:51
in the cycle of capital accumulation
24:53
like those in the United States
24:54
but most likely this Revolution
24:56
Will begin in the peripher free in countries like India and the Philippines
25:00
where there are already
25:01
thriving communist revolutions attempting
25:04
to build power for most of the rest of the world unfortunately
25:07
the conditions of capitalist State backlash
25:10
against the left make Global ecosocialism
25:12
seem too far away
25:14
especially if we want to address urgent environmental
25:16
needs we need rapid ecological
25:18
action within the next 10 years
25:20
and unfortunately a global ecosocialist
25:22
Revolution doesn't seem likely
25:24
within that time frame so we cannot rely solely
25:27
on the prospect of global ecosocialism
25:30
to address climate action instead we will need to work within our current system
25:34
right now while simultaneously
25:36
striving for a more rationally
25:38
planned ecological economy as Brazilian ecosocialist
25:42
activist Sabrina Fernandez writes
25:44
to escape the looming
25:45
ecological disaster before we have the chance to establish a socialist
25:49
society we will have to implement
25:51
ideas policies micr systems
25:53
reforms and other sociopolitical
25:55
arrangements that will slow the pace of the crisis
25:58
while establishing the foundations
26:00
for popular power that can overcome it and support a new system
26:04
these interventions can range from building Union power and pushing for more worker agency
26:09
in the workplace or seeking support for more urban and agroecological
26:13
farming methods it can involve organizing
26:16
communities to advocate for safe accessible and electrified
26:19
public transit as well as developing
26:21
extensive bike infrastructure it can mean blocking or sabotaging
26:25
pipelines across indigenous land or it can mean defunding
26:28
the military and police
26:30
tendergrass points towards the recent United Auto Workers strike
26:33
as another example of immediate
26:35
social and environmental harm reduction
26:38
one of the things they're demanding is a 4-day work week because they recognize
26:41
that the transition to electric
26:43
vehicles is requires less labor
26:46
but in the process of fighting for those stop Gap interventions
26:50
it is crucial not to lose sight of the larger goal
26:53
these are harm reduction
26:54
strategies and will forever
26:56
be beholden to the whim of capitalist
26:58
production if we don't continue to escalate
27:01
towards ecosocialist Democratic planning
27:03
the goal is to build an ecological
27:05
transition that will make the Socialist
27:07
transition Possible only through the complete dismantling
27:11
of capitalist forces a feat historically
27:13
achieved through Revolution will we finally be able to embark on the Journey
27:18
of constructing and planning an ecological
27:21
and ethical world for all luckily we won't be starting from scratch on that
27:25
Journey socialism and more specifically
27:27
socialist planning has been tried and tested
27:29
in China Cuba and especially the Soviet Union it's crucial to learn from the
27:34
successes and importantly the failures
27:36
of those planning methods which is why I've made a whole another video about
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the ecological implications of Soviet planning
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the Bolshevik successfully protected
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