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While the world's people suffer the apocalyptic torments of floods, fires, droughts, heatwaves, desertification, disease vectors, food shortages, forced migration, ecosystem collapse, extinction,and other effects of uncontrolled climate change, the world's governmental and political leaders continue to accelerateour wild ride to climate doom.Is there any way for the rest of us to put on the brakes? Climate insurgencyis a strategy for using people power to realize our common interest in protecting the climate. It uses mass, global, nonviolent action to challenge the legitimacy of public and corporate officials who are perpetrating climate destruction. A global climate insurgency has already begun. It has the potential to halt and roll back the fossil fuel agenda and the global thrust toward climate destruction. tells how to put that strategy into action-and how it can succeed. It is a handbook for halting global warming and restoring our climate-a how-to for climate insurgents.

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Against Doom lays out key elements of a far-reaching, global-scaled, pragmatic, people-powered strategy to topple the power of the fossil fuel industry and the institutions behind it. --David Solnit, author of Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World In Against Doom, Brecher has provided the climate movement with two essential tools: a moral framework for the struggle against fossil fuels, and an actual plan for victory. By blending sober social movement analysis with the fire of grassroots activism, this book shows that there is a genuine, and winnable, case against the fossil fuel economy--a case to be argued in the streets as well as the courtroom. It's an essential volume for anyone committed to social change in the fight against climate change. --Joseph Hamilton, Climate Defense Project Jeremy Brecher has managed to combine his passion for justice with the wisdom gleaned from decades of research, writing, and personal engagement in social movements and condense them into this short and accessible strategy document. Having benefited from his guidance on a variety of campaigns over the last twenty years, I look forward to collaborating with other organizers and activists in using this book as a blueprint for building a global climate insurgency. --John Humphries, Connecticut Roundtable on Climate and Jobs A crisp, clear, and savvy synthesis of key concepts and ideas that will help the global climate justice movement to succeed. Brecher outlines many feasible climate solutions that should give all of us hope, despite the odds. --Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate

Neither glitzy, eloquent nor subtle, Brecher methodically lays out an interlocking vision of direct action within a constitutional legal framework to build the powerful nonviolent climate insurgency necessary to turn the ship around. --Jay O'Hara, wagingnonviolence.org

Brecher explains in clear ways just how civil resistance could be developed further and made a core strategy of an effective climate justice movement . . . . Right now, I just want to urge people to read this book! --Steve Chase, nonviolent-conflict.org If you have any interest in climate change but needed current data in your hands . . . then this easily qualifies. --GF Willmetts, sfcrowsnest.org.uk Jeremy Brecher has managed to combine his passion for justice with the wisdom gleaned from decades of research, writing, and personal engagement in social movements and condense them into this short and accessible strategy document. Having benefited from his guidance on a variety of campaigns over the last twenty years, I look forward to collaborating with other organizers and activists in using this book as a blueprint for building a global climate insurgency. --John Humphries, Connecticut Roundtable on Climate and Jobs Neither glitzy, eloquent nor subtle, Brecher methodically lays out an interlocking vision of direct action within a constitutional legal framework to build the powerful nonviolent climate insurgency necessary to turn the ship around. --Jay O'Hara, wagingnonviolence.org Climate insurgency is a strategy for using people power to realise our common interest in protecting the climate. It uses mass, global, nonviolent action to challenge the legitimacy of public and corporate officials who are perpetrating climate destruction. --Ian Angus, Green Left Weekly Against Doom is a hopeful plan of action to prevent a catastrophic climate bust. Brecher explores various pathways to challenge big fossil fuels' grip on politics and the economy. We are racing against the clock, so read Against Doom and take action now. --Bennett Baumer, indypendent.org In Against Doom, Brecher ties complex strategies for a just transition to a sustainable civilization that seeks broad cooperation from diverse organizations and groups. This book is a great read. --nixbeat.com Against Doom lays out key elements of a far-reaching, global-scaled, pragmatic, people-powered strategy to topple the power of the fossil fuel industry and the institutions behind it. --David Solnit, author, Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World A crisp, clear, and savvy synthesis of key concepts and ideas that will help the global climate justice movement to succeed. Brecher outlines many feasible climate solutions that should give all of us hope, despite the odds. --Naomi Klein, author, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate In Against Doom, Brecher has provided the climate movement with two essential tools: a moral framework for the struggle against fossil fuels, and an actual plan for victory. By blending sober social movement analysis with the fire of grassroots activism, this book shows that there is a genuine, and winnable, case against the fossil fuel economy--a case to be argued in the streets as well as the courtroom. It's an essential volume for anyone committed to social change in the fight against climate change. --Joseph Hamilton, Climate Defense Project

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Jeremy Brecher is the author of more than a dozen books on labor and social movements, including Save the Humans? Common Preservation in Action and his classic labor history Strike!. He has been writing about climate protection since 1988, most recently in his book Climate Insurgency: A Strategy for Survival. In addition to being awarded five regional Emmy Awards for his documentary film work, Jeremy was arrested in the early White House sit-ins against the Keystone XL pipeline.

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