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What should be done to resolve the climate crisis? Tanuro argues that government measures - eco-taxes, commodification of natural resources, and carbon trading - do not tackle the drive for profit. Evidence from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and other sources demonstrates the impossibility of a sustainable green capitalism . Climate degradation comes with the natural functioning of capitalism - a system based on the accumulation of capital (in particular the functioning of the energy system required by this accumulation process). An emancipatory project to overcome the impending crisis needs to recognize natural constraints and aim for a fundamental redefinition of social wealth. Tanuro uses the Marxist theory of value to explain ecological crisis. He addresses a failing in Marxs ecology: an inadequate appreciation of the crucial implications of capitalisms reliance on non-renewable fossil-fuel resources. He challenges both mainstream Green strategy and traditional Left alternatives. He points to solutions: de-growth , re-localisation and the decentralisation of production are necessary to limit global warming.

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Daniel Tanuro is a qualified agricultural engineer and a Marxist. He has previously published: '21st Century Socialists must be ecosocialists', in The Global Fight for Climate Justice; 'Marxism, Energy, and Ecology: The Moment of Truth', in Capitalism Nature Socialism; and 'Foundations of an ecosocialist strategy', 2011, on climateandcapitalism.com.

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