Half-Earth Socialism
A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change, and Pandemics

One of the great paradoxes of thinking on the Left is the bad reputation that utopias have, not helped by Engels’ early 1880 Socialism: Utopian and Scientific – a quite reasonable critique of a whole bunch of writers who had a vision of socialism but no real large scale vision of how to get there. T......more

I liked this, despite being fairly obviously on the ecomodernist end of ecosocialism and so hence unsure about compulsory veganism and land-tilling. Half-Earth Socialism does some quite unusual things in the often very hand-wavey ecosocialist Verso book subgenre. It's both a) very honestly implausib......more

A recent tweet from the co-author nicely sums up the stance that Half-Earth Socialism is up against. "Why are there so many 'ecosocialists' who hate animals?" It can be hard to be a socialist and an environmentalist at the same time in terms of knowing what exactly to do with one's sentimentality. O......more

The recently published IPCC Report puts this book in earth-shattering context. (both literally and figuratively). The Authors present what I suppose would be called four main ideas to put forth the idea of half earth socialism. I have to, in my very, average-ish person understanding, give props to t......more

The subtitle calling this book a "plan" isn't really accurate. It's more a "vision." I have nothing against visions, and as visions go, this one isn't so far off from mine. If we don't consider radical solutions and if we aren't prepared to try some of them, we may miss out on the best opportunities......more