Science-Based Ecosocialist Strategy for Climate Security
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12433131 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D Schwartzman (0000-0003-4723-9177, Howard University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 108-135 |
| Publication date | 2025-04-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of World-Systems Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1076-156X • E-ISSN: 1076-156X |
| Publisher | University Library System, University of Pittsburgh (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5195/jwsr.2025.1323 |
| OpenAlex | W4409540271 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 15 |
The natural, physical, and informational sciences—in particular, climatology, ecology, biogeochemistry, and thermodynamics—which along with the wisdom derived from the experience of thousands of years of indigenous peoples’ agriculture and culture should inform an effective global plan to prevent future climate catastrophes much worse than now witnessed which will very likely occur if the 1.5°C warming limit is exceeded in the next few decades. Strategy is imperative to guide transnational political struggle, to first defeat fossil capital while creating a Global Green New Deal (GGND) confronting the growing threat of climate catastrophes. Degrowth has been promoted as a program for climate security, but a major problem is its grounding in Georgescu-Roegen’s fallacious entropy concept with regard to energy supplies to society. Degrowthers call for a global reduction in energy. However, sufficient levels of renewable energy likely greater than the present global energy consumption level will eliminate energy poverty while having the capacity for climate mitigation and adaptation with a phase out of extractive industries. Organizing for a GGND must start now with the recognition of the role of green capital at least in its first stage, both for implementation of an ever-growing renewable energy infrastructure replacing fossil fuel, as well as a potential ally in defeating the agenda of militarized fossil capital. At the same time, green capital must be challenged to insure environmental, worker and community protection. The GGND can potentially develop in an increasingly ecosocialist direction, culminating with end of reproduction of capital on the planet
Business · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Computer Science · Environmental Science · Global Energy and Sustainability Research
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Greening the job
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An Ecosocialist Perspective on Gaia 2.0
Resource geography III
The Limits to Entropy
Prefiguration and the Emergence of the Global Subject
Super-Exploitation from the Perspective of the Global Working Class
Rentiers of the low-carbon economy? Renewable energy's extractive fiscal geographies
Fossil capitalism, climate capitalism, energy democracy
New political ecologies of renewable energy
Varieties of green capitalism
Green Devaluation
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |