Global Capitalism and Climate Change

Hans A. Baer is principal honorary research fellow in the School of Social Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne.

• Chapter 1: The Impact of Climate Change on the Environment and Human Societies Chapter 2: The Capitalist World System and its Contradictions Chapter 3: The Capitalist Treadmill of Production and Consumption as a Generator of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Chapter 4: The Inadequacies of Existing Climate Regimes for Mitigating Climate Change Chapter 5: Why Green Capitalism Is Insufficient to Mitigate Climate Change Chapter 6: The Climate Movement: Internationally, Nationally, and Locally Chapter 7: Visions of the Future: Dystopia, Reflexive Modernization, and Eco-Socialism Chapter 8: Toward a Socio-Ecological Revolution: System-Challenging Transitional Reforms Conclusion: Climate Change, the COVID-19 Pandemic, and the Need for Eco-Socialism

System change has been an increasingly strong rallying call within climate action movements. But what does it really mean? In this second edition of Global Capitalism and Climate Change: The Need for an Alternative World System, nearly a decade since its original publication, Hans A. Baer details the massive implications of system change for the climate emergency that we are now experiencing globally.