******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ********************
#1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message.
#2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived.
#3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern.
*****************************************************************
On 2017/06/08 03:57 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:
(The same old critique. How is it that so little of this was heard
before oil prices began to plummet?)
Because, I think, we haven't been good at connecting the dots between
climate activism and general tendencies of Resource Cursing, applicable
also in Venezuela. That failure to work across sectors is a more general
problem, evident across the left, environmentalists, community, labour -
certainly in Africa:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/03/13/disconnecting-the-minerals-energy-climate-dots/
It's why Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything is so vital.
Actually, the lefty critique of fossil extractivism in the Pink Tide
zone that I just mentioned, from Edgardo Lander, has been rising fast in
that region since at least the early 2000s. One very interesting group -
Accion Ecologica radical eco-feminists based in Quito - has been central
to the Oilwatch global network, along with their comrades at
Environmental RIghts Action in Nigeria.
I hung out with them 6 years ago in the Yasuni forest trying to get a
handle on "leave the oil in the soil" politics:
http://links.org.au/node/2430
Here's a bit of a translation to an eco-social struggle in northern
KwaZulu-Natal not far from Durban:
http://ccs.ukzn.ac.za/files/Leave-the-coal-in-the-ground-somkhele.pdf
Obviously there's a great deal of debate going on about whether
'environmental justice' is the appropriate framing, or whether
eco-socialism can get traction in scenes like this, as a result of
various EJ limitations...
_________________________________________________________
Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm
Set your options at:
http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
