Overview

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.

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"""Ecology for the 99% is a wonderful introduction to the burning issues raised by the ecological crisis and climate change. In clear wording and with precise arguments, it dispels myths and illusions propagated by the conformist media and points to the urgent need to get rid of the system responsible for the crisis: capitalism."" - Michael Löwy, author of Ecosocialism: A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe ""Finally, an eminently accessible introduction to the climate crisis that uses Marxist concepts to expose the capitalist system at the root of the emergency. This is the book we all need to navigate the onslaught of business-as-usual green policies being promoted by the economic and political elite. Ecology for the 99% goes well beyond dispelling myths, it also gifts us compelling proposals for how to build power and win the just future we all deserve."" - Emily Eaton, professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Regina; co-author of The End of This World: Climate Justice in So-Called Canada ""This punchy, provocative book is part political-economy primer and part organizers' manual. The authors show that protecting the planet means confronting and defeating the power of those who are profiting from its destruction. Their clarion call for a movement of the 99 percent to take on both climate change and the system that permits it is both timely and hopeful."" - Jim Stanford, economist and director, Centre for Future Work, Vancouver"

Author Information

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. 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 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. 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.

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