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Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet

Revolutionary Left Radio

Breht O'Shea

Communism, Politics, Liberalism, Society & Culture, Philosophy, News, History, Leftwing, Socialism, Marxism

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2022

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Matt Huber is a professor of geography at Syracuse University. His new book, Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet, is out from Verso Books in 2022.

Professor Huber joins Breht to discuss the politics of climate change and how to build an effective socialist movement, rooted in the working class and militant labor unions, to confront the challenges of the climate crisis.
Follow Prof. Huber on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Matthuber78

Outro music: 'Highwomen' by The Highwomen


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0:00.0

Hello everybody and welcome back to RevLeft Radio.

0:09.0

On today's episode I have on Professor Matt Huber to talk about his newest book Climate

0:14.4

Change as Class War.

0:16.9

This is a really crucial dive into the Marxist class-based perspective on the climate crisis

0:24.3

and how best to address it.

0:26.7

We talk about unions, we talk about NGOs, we talk about certain strata in the working

0:32.3

class and what they represent.

0:34.4

We talk about a lot of fascinating essential stuff to the issue of climate change.

0:40.7

And we're sitting here in June when we're recording this.

0:44.2

You know very quickly we're already on some places and we're going to increasingly be

0:47.9

in the drought and wildfire season which every year ranges more and more out of control.

0:54.4

I sometimes think that winters in the Northern Hemisphere give people a recess a little bit

1:00.4

from having to think about climate change because sometimes it can be out of the news

1:05.0

and people can move on to other topics as we've seen very quickly.

1:09.4

But with the re-emergence of summer every year it's sort of like recess is over.

1:13.8

Remember what's happening in the background this whole time?

1:16.3

Maybe we should start fucking addressing it.

1:19.1

And so you know starting off the summer I wanted to make sure that we covered climate change

1:23.3

once again and we'll continue to do that because obviously it's a huge focus of this show.

1:27.6

I also wanted to give a shout out to the friends over at Left Reckoning, another good Left

1:32.2

Wing podcast who also had Matt Huber on for an interview with him as well.

1:36.8

So if you listen to this interview you enjoy it.

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