Understanding The Climate Crisis - A Marxist View

In this Podcast we discuss with Elaine Graham Leigh a Marxist view on the climate crisis

 

From the youth climate strikes to the Green New Deal, climate change has moved up the political agenda. Elaine Graham Leigh a local author has just published a book on “Marx And The Climate Crisis.”

 

For many that may sound a strange title to relate a 19th century writer of the industrial era to a post industrial world we live in but Elaine says,

 

“Marx’s analysis of capitalism provides the basis for understanding how the system’s destructiveness is driving the climate crisis. Elaine Graham-Leigh shows how Marx’s ideas explain the climate breakdown and how we can create a society that protects both people and planet. This is a manifesto for system change as well as an account of why humanity faces its greatest crisis.”

 

Well is this webinar we discuss this with her and find her reasons behind the argument of her book