April 13, 2016

Hobart Forum with Ian Angus

Climate war and the billionaire class: Capitalism versus humanity in the fight to save the planet

This forum will address the "climate war" that has begun and the ecosocialist solutions needed to address it. More than ever, the line between rich and poor is a line between survival and death, as inequality and climate change combine to create new extremes of oppression. A handful of people live in obscene luxury, while billions are condemned to permanent poverty and hunger – and rich governments build fences, walls and concentration camps to keep the poor away. 
                                
Speaker Ian Angus is a long-time activist in socialist and environmental movements in Canada and internationally.

Editor 
"Climate and Captalism"www.climateandcapitalism.com

Editor 
The Global Fight for Climate Justice: Anticapitalist Responses to Global Warming and Environmental Destruction (Resistance Books, 2009).

Author
Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System (Monthly Review Press, 2016)

Co-Author with Simon Butler
Too Many People? Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis (Haymarket Books, 2011) Belem Ecosocialist Declaration.

Ian Angus is also a featured speaker at the Socialism for the 21st Century Conference:http://www.socialismforthe21stcentury.org/