Political Science Environmental Policy
Ecology for the 99%
Twenty Capitalist Myths Debunked
- Publisher
- Between the Lines
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2024
- Category
- Environmental Policy, Global Warming & Climate Change, Activism & Social Justice, Capitalism
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781771136457
- Publish Date
- Mar 2024
- List Price
- $26.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781771136464
- Publish Date
- Mar 2024
- List Price
- $25.99
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If everyone—from Emmanuel Macron to Jeff Bezos, and even Coca Cola—is green, why is the environmental crisis growing at an alarmingly rapid rate? The world is already experiencing the impact of climate crisis, but we are not equally responsible for its violent effects. Some of those who claim to be helping the planet are actually making things worse. To avoid being duped by false allies and to create an ecology for the 99%, we must discuss a radical topic: the exit from capitalism. Ecology for the 99% provides inspiration for building grassroots environmental movements through a lively discussion of the most persistent capitalist myths. It presents compelling evidence for why carbon market policies will fail, why a capitalist economy cannot be based on renewable energy sources, and why we should be protesting against overproduction, not overconsumption.
Ecology for the 99% is an antidote to apathy and a bulwark against false leads. Time is running out, we can’t afford to take any wrong turns.
About the authors
Frédéric Legault is a teacher and has a PhD in sociology about post-capitalist economics. He lives in Montreal, also known as Tiohtià:ke and Mooniyaang.
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Arnaud Theurillat-Cloutier is a philosophy teacher, doctoral candidate in sociology and author of Printemps de force (Lux éditeur, 2017, Prix du livre
politique de l’Assemblée nationale du Québec, 2018). He lives in Montreal, also known as Tiohtià:ke and Mooniyaang.
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Alain Savard is an organiser and negociator for labor unions in the food processing industry. He also has a PhD in political science (York University) on
the theories of power and social change. He lives in Montreal, also known as Tiohtià:ke and Mooniyaang.
Artist, author, and illustrator, Clément de Gaulejac has lived in Montreal since the early 2000s. His most recent exhibition is entitled Les Maitres du monde sont des gens (Galerie UQO, 2019; Écart, 2021; Plein sud, 2022; Musée régional de Rimouski, 2023). He is also the creator of the fountain called Bottes de pluie, installed in front of the Maisonneuve Library in Montreal. With Le Quartanier editions, he has published Les artistes (2017), Grande école (2012) as well as Le livre noir de l’art conceptuel (2011). In 2021, he was the recipient of the Grantham Foundation Research Fellowship. In 2022, he published in the collection Terrains vague des PUM the theoretical essay Tu vois ce que je veux dire ? Illustrations, métaphores et autres images qui parlent, recipient of the Spirale Eva-Legrand prize. In 2023, he published Petites différences, les anciennes les modernes et toutes les autres with Éditions du Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal. As an illustrator, he regularly collaborates with various newspapers, magazines and publishing houses. You can see all the posters he has produced in support of various social or political movements on the site: www.eau-tiede.org.
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Charles Simard is a Québécois editor and translator from Montréal, also known as Tiohtià:ke and Mooniyaang. He works as poetry, fiction, and non-fiction editor for Talonbooks in Vancouver on Coast Salish Territory. His published work includes the essay Littérature, analyse et forme: Herbert, Tolkien, Borges, Eco (EUE, 2010) and a number of translations for Orca Book Publishers, including Elise Gravel’s The Wrench and Myriam Daguzan Bernier’s dictionary of sexuality, Naked. As a lexicographer, he has collaborated on the making of the popular linguistic suite Antidote in its bilingual editions. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in comparative literature from Université de Montréal and was a postdoctoral fellow at the City University of New York’s Graduate
Center. His doctoral and postdoctoral publications focused on the poetics of avant-garde composer and writer John Cage. He lives in Montréal, Québec.
