Monday, May 30, 2016

Book Launch Video: Ian Angus introduces ‘Facing the Anthropocene’ [a must-view video]

Click here if you wish to directly access the introduction reproduced below and the 34:09m video from the website of Climate & Capitalism.
Author’s presentation at book launch meeting for ‘Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System,’ at the Socialism for the 21st Century conference in Sydney, Australia, May 13, 2013.

The meeting was sponsored by Socialist Alliance, Green Left Weekly, and Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal. It was chaired by Simon Butler, and the first speaker was Christopher Wright, co-author ‘Climate Change, Capitalism and Corporations.’  Wright has posted the text of his talk on his blog, Climate, People and Organizations.

Video by GreenLeftTV.
Angus makes this very accurate comment of what is at stake: "If we fight we might lose. If we don't fight we will lose, and my [all of our] grandchildren will pay the price."