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Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet

Revolutionary Left Radio

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The Climate Crisis Is Not About Individual Carbon Footprints

In your book, you assert that the professional class in particular has disproportionately led and shaped the mainstream climate movement. So can you talk about this professional class, who makes it up, kind of the three archetypes you use to describe them? Er. The capitalist class plots according to their class interests much more systematically than i think the american working class has,. at least for the last several decades. It might be more accurate to actually talk about the professional class as a stratum within the working class, or whatever. But with that prelude, am, you know, the what i argue is that theres the professional class which uses credentials to carve out advantages in the labor market. And

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