Description: How can we challenge global warming? What kind of politics can help us build a sustainable and just society? How can we achieve climate justice? In this book, life-long activist Brian Tokar shows how grassroots movements, direct action, and social ecology can point the way toward an ecological future.
Brief description: Brian Tokar is a lecturer in Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont. Since the 1980s he is an activist, author and well-known critical voice for ecological activism. He serves on the board of 350-Vermont, and is currently the Director of the Institute for Social Ecology. Tokar has lectured throughout the U.S., as well as internationally, and is acclaimed as an advocate of grassroots action for ecological sanity and global justice. He received a Project Censored award for his investigative history of Monsanto, originally published in The Ecologist, and he has contributed to "The Routledge Handbook of the Climate Change Movement," "A Line in the Tar Sands," and other recent books.
Review Quotes:
An important book by an important writer on the most important challenge the planet has ever faced. We can meet that challenge--and in the process come closer to building a just society--but it will take real focus and real movement-building, which this fine volume helps push us toward!
-- Bill McKibben, author Eaarth