Praise

“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

“A lucid and compelling account of how the collective power of grassroots movements can break through the barriers to change—economic, political, cultural, and psychological. This book is required reading for anyone interested in a course correction from our current trajectory toward climate catastrophe. Democratic change from below is not only possible; it is indispensable.”

– William K. Carroll, professor, Department of Sociology, University of Victoria

“There are innumerable books on the market today that profess to offer solutions to today’s planetary ecological crisis, while in fact providing merely an ecology for the one percent, in which profits are put before people and the planet. Such works cynically present as the solution to the unparalleled threat before us the very capitalist system that is its cause. Thoroughly refuting all of this in an analysis that also has the virtue of being accessible to everyone, Legault, Theurillat-Cloutier, and Savard provide what can genuinely be considered a much-needed ecology for the 99 percent.”

– John Bellamy Foster, author of The Dialectics of Ecology: Society and Nature