Issues a call to action to the environmental movement and labour activists to join forces in a common struggle to protect the environment from capitalism, corporate greed, and the extraction of resources. It argues for a major transformation to address the 'jobs versus the environment' rhetoric that divides these two groups. Combining practical initiatives and theoretical perspectives, this offers an approach that brings together radical ecology and revolutionary unionism in a promising vision of green politics.
Jeff Shantz is professor in the Criminology Department at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Surrey, British Columbia. His books include Radical Ecology and Social Myth: The Difficult Constitution of Counter-Hegemonic Politics and Living Anarchy: Theory and Practice in Anarchist Movements.