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Ecosocialism - Coggle Diagram

- - - - argues we need a more 'realist utopian approach' (12)
        
        transitional pathways
        
        nurturing new forms of democratic self governance (p 24)
    - - 1) 'abstract utopian'
        
        fails to consider how ecosocialism emerges within current trends (14)
        
        Richard Smith:
        
        worker led democratic planning
        
        shut down polluting industries
        
        abolish military state
        
        Troy Vettese:
        
        2,000 watt per capita global society
        
        compulsory veganism
        
        abstract ideals with no solution
        
        John Bellamy Foster:
        
        transitional steps
        
        but still lack conditions to make them possible
        
        Joel Kovel:
        
        more attention to revolutionary process
        
        lots of local expirements join together
        
        Green New Deal (15)
        
        transitional platform that works with current tendencies
        and near-term achievable targets (15)
      - 2) ignores possible trade offs/dangers
        
        there would be period of time where old consumption habits still persist (16)
        
        planning is supposed to be democratic, but may be challenging given the climate crisis timeline
        
        would need long term revolutionary shift
        
        state coercion may be needed to get rich countries to comply
        
        if we follow a democratic plan then biosphere may face the consequences
        
        could lead to authoritarian forms of socialism (p 22)
        
        need to acknowledge this as a risk so that strategies for initial 'emergency' phase can be created
        
        Huber - critiques degrowth ecosocialism
        
        proposes 'scientific ecosocialism' (p 17)
  - - - based on social and environmental needs
      - infrastructure/labour that is ecologically regenerative not profitable
      - ecofeminists: economy centred around reproductive labor/caring, education, care for elderly
    - - new forms of democratic planning
      - not necessarily trying to abolish markets
        
        contrain them by dominant public sector
        
        nationalization of large firms
        
        abolition/radical transformation of labor markets
    - - reduce material/energy consumption in overdeveloped areas
        
        reallocate materials to global south
        
        degrowth
- - - - green anarchism
      - social ecology
      - green syndicalism
      - emphasize direct action
        
        unlike ecosocialism which not necessarily want to take over the state or provide a clear path to doing so
- - - - term from entomogist E. O. Wilson
      - "the need to rewild half of the planet to staunch the haemorrhaging of biodiversity" (p 11)
      - mathematical relationship between land area and biodiversity
      - book divided into 4 parts:
        
        philosophical
        
        material
        
        ecosocialist solutions to the current material conditions
        
        adresses the shortcomings of mainstream environmentalism
        
        BECCS
        
        nuclear power
        
        Wilson's half earth
        
        material aspects of ecosocialist half-earth from these shortcomings
        
        veganism
        
        energy quotas
        
        planetary rewilding
        
        technical
        
        planning
        
        they made a fun game that simulates the kinds of trade-offs/planning strategies involved based on a hypothetical revolution that took place in 2022 at: http://half.earth
        
        imaginative
        
        utopian socialist fiction