Climate Change as Class War - Book Review Thursday Dec. 4, 2025, 7 - 8 pm
Peter Wirth
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I also have a Facebook post if that is helpful. Just let me know. PeteClimate Change Awareness & Action (CCAA) is excited to partner with the Climate Reality Finger Lakes Book Group for a special virtual book club discussion on: “Climate Change as a Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet”
Date: Thursday, December 4, 2025
Time: 7:00–8:00 PM
How: Zoom (link below)
We’re thrilled to share that the author, Matthew Huber, professor in the Geography and the Environment Department at Syracuse University, will be joining us for the conversation.
You’re welcome to join the discussion whether you’ve read the book or not. Listeners are absolutely encouraged!If you'd like to read it beforehand, the book or ebook is available from Verseo Books. https://www.versobooks.com/products/775-climate-change-as-class-war
🔗 Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/92627957489?pwd=Z21YbjU3WGNVZk1sbkZESXdpRWVYZz09#success Meeting ID: 926 2795 7489Interview of Matthew Huber about the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4JHK3uyn-o
For more information: • CCAA: pwi...@verizon.net
• Climate Reality Project: tjhir...@mac.com
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More about the book:The climate crisis is not primarily a problem of ‘believing science’ or individual ‘carbon footprints’ – it is a class problem rooted in who owns, controls and profits from material production. As such, it will take a class struggle to solve.
In this groundbreaking class analysis, Matthew T. Huber argues that the carbon-intensive capitalist class must be confronted for producing climate change. Yet, the narrow and unpopular roots of climate politics in the professional class is not capable of building a movement up to this challenge. For an alternative strategy, he proposes climate politics that appeals to the vast majority of society: the working class.Huber evaluates the Green New Deal as a first attempt to channel working class material and ecological interests and advocates building union power in the very energy system we so need to dramatically transform. In the end, as in classical socialist movements of the early 20th Century, winning the climate struggle will need to be internationalist based on a form of planetary working-class solidarity.
On 11/20/25 10:18 AM, Peter Wirth wrote:
Climate Change Awareness & Action (CCAA) is excited to partner with the Climate Reality Finger Lakes Book Group for a special virtual book club discussion on: “Climate Change as a Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet”
Date: Thursday, December 4, 2025 Time: 7:00–8:00 PM How: Zoom (link below)We’re thrilled to share that the author, Matthew Huber, professor in the Geography and the Environment Department at Syracuse University, will be joining us for the conversation.
You’re welcome to join the discussion whether you’ve read the book or not. Listeners are absolutely encouraged!If you'd like to read it beforehand, the book or ebook is available from Verseo Books. https://www.versobooks.com/products/775-climate-change-as-class-war
🔗 Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/92627957489?pwd=Z21YbjU3WGNVZk1sbkZESXdpRWVYZz09#success
Meeting ID: 926 2795 7489-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
More about the book:
The climate crisis is not primarily a problem of ‘believing science’ or individual ‘carbon footprints’ – it is a class problem rooted in who owns, controls and profits from material production. As such, it will take a class struggle to solve. In this groundbreaking class analysis, Matthew T. Huber argues that the carbon-intensive capitalist class must be confronted for producing climate change. Yet, the narrow and unpopular roots of climate politics in the professional class is not capable of building a movement up to this challenge. For an alternative strategy, he proposes climate politics that appeals to the vast majority of society: the working class. Huber evaluates the Green New Deal as a first attempt to channel working class material and ecological interests and advocates building union power in the very energy system we so need to dramatically transform. In the end, as in classical socialist movements of the early 20th Century, winning the climate struggle will need to be internationalist based on a form of planetary working- class solidarity. Interview of Matthew Huber about the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4JHK3uyn-o
For more information: • CCAA: pwi...@verizon.net
• Climate Reality Project: tjhir...@mac.com