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An iconoclast of the best kind, Stan Cox has an all-too-rare commitment to following arguments wherever they lead, however politically dangerous that turns out to be.-Naomi Klein
2020 was a year defined by crisis. For decades, scientists have been sounding the alarm about the urgency of addressing climate change, but it took COVID-19 to demonstrate clearly that the future of human life on Earth is interconnected and at risk. While the virus quickly spread across the globe, extreme weather events compounded the suffering and economic catastrophe. In the U.S., public demonstrations of outrage over the murder of George Floyd expanded to include a growing awareness of the pandemics disproportionate impact on communities of color. In cities around the world, people took to the streets to protest racial inequity in all of its forms.
In The Path to a Livable Future, Stan Cox makes plain the connections between the multiple crises facing us today, and provides an inspired vision for how to resolve them. With a deeply informed, clear to-do list, Cox shows us how we can work together to address the climate emergency, white supremacy, and our vulnerability to future pandemics all at once. Our future depends on it.
In The Path to a Livable Future, Stan Cox shows us that the calamitous problems faced by all humanity, from pandemic to environmental devastation and settler colonialism, have a common root: the Western doctrine of looting and exploitation. Cox lays out a refreshingly grounded roadmap for the survival of all life on earth, based on up-to-date science, and anchored in the racial justice imperative. Global civilization is on a disastrous trajectory that can only be averted through holistic and bold pivots. The Path charts the way forward and gives us a reason to cling to hope.-Leah Penniman, co-founder of Soul Fire Farm, author of Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farms Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land
Above all, he shows that a healthy, just, sustainable future is possible if we reduce our ecological footprint and share the earths gifts equitably. For this we need to organize, resist, imagine, and forge another path together.-Vandana Shiva, author of Who Really Feeds the World?: The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology
Stan Cox cuts through the fog of mediocrity and offers a clear, honest vision for how social movements can win a truly just and sustainable society. There are few books I would recommend as wholeheartedly as this one. Dont miss it.-Jason Hickel, author of Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
As Cox shows in this devastating but clear-eyed assessment, the multiple existential crises of our modern world-from climate change to pandemics-are interrelated and can be traced back to centuries of colonial domination of land and people.-Dina Gilio-Whitaker, author of As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock
Stan Cox stands in a class of his own. . . . The Path to a Livable Future is a testament to the fact that meaningful responses to the multifarious crises we face are unlikely to come-first and foremost-from traditional urban liberal strongholds.-Felix Marquardt, author of The New Nomads: How the Migration Revolution is Transforming our Lives for the Better
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PRAISE FOR STAN COXS
The Path To A Livable Future
In The Path to a Livable Future, Stan Cox shows how Covid, climate change, and racism have common roots in violation of planetary boundaries, ecological limits, and the rights of all people to justice and equality. He warns us that technological fixes in medicine, agriculture, and energy will deepen the crises. Above all, he shows that a healthy, just, sustainable future is possible if we reduce our ecological footprint and share the earths gifts equitably. For this we need to organize, resist, imagine, and forge another path together.
Vandana Shiva, author of Who Really Feeds the World?:
The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology
As Cox shows in this devastating but clear-eyed assessment, the multiple existential crises of our modern worldfrom climate change to pandemicsare interrelated and can be traced back to centuries of colonial domination of land and people. Unfettered capitalism is the through-line that ties it all together, and it is only through degrowth, anti-racism, and anti-colonialism that a sustainable and just future can be imagined.
Dina Gilio-Whitaker, author of As Long as Grass Grows:
The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock
Stan Cox stands in a class of his own. Chronicling the emergence of a translocal alliance including Black, Indigenous and people of color, and a growing number of white folks outside urban centers who have started coming to terms with the pervasive coloniality of our agrarian system and political institutions, The Path to a Livable Future is a testament to the fact that meaningful responses to the multifarious crises we face are unlikely to comefirst and foremostfrom traditional urban liberal strongholds. Having masterfully demonstrated in Any Way You Slice It and The Green New Deal and Beyond that climate breakdown was fundamentally an energy-rationing and wealth-redistribution issue, Cox continues to meticulously lay the groundwork for the radical paradigm shift that the ecosphere, our politics, and our economics so urgently require.
Felix Marquardt, author of The New Nomads:
How the Migration Revolution Is Transforming Our Lives for the Better
When it comes to the climate crisis, our governments are still in complete denial about the scale of what needs to be done. Stan Cox cuts through the fog of mediocrity and offers a clear, honest vision for how social movements can win a truly just and sustainable society. There are few books I would recommend as wholeheartedly as this one. Dont miss it.
Jason Hickel, author of Less Is More:
How Degrowth Will Save the World
The Path shows us that the calamitous problems faced by all humanity, from pandemic to environmental devastation and settler colonialism, have a common root: the Western doctrine of looting and exploitation. Cox lays out a refreshingly grounded roadmap for the survival of all life on earth, based on up-to-date science, and anchored in the racial justice imperative. Global civilization is on a disastrous trajectory that can only be averted through holistic and bold pivots. The Path charts the way forward and gives us a reason to cling to hope.
Leah Penniman, co-founder of Soul Fire Farm,
author of Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farms
Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land
Copyright 2021 by Stan Cox
Foreword Copyright 2021 by Zenobia Jeffries Warfield
All Rights Reserved.
Open Media Series Editor: Greg Ruggiero
Cover design: Victor Mingovits
ISBN: 978-0-87286-878-6
eISBN: 978-0-87286-856-4
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Cox, Stan, author.
Title: The path to a livable future : a new politics to fight climate change, racism, and the next pandemic / Stan Cox ; foreword by Zenobia Jeffries Warfield.
Description: San Francisco : City Lights Books, [2021] | Series: Open Media Series | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021018340 | ISBN 9780872868786 (Trade Paperback)
Subjects: LCSH: EnvironmentalismUnited States. | Environmental policyUnited States. | RacismUnited States. | Public healthUnited States. | Food industry and tradeGovernment policyUnited States.
Classification: LCC GE197 .C485 2021 | DDC 304.20973dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021018340
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T HE INVITATION TO write the foreword for Stan Coxs The Path to a Livable Future: A New Politics to Fight Climate Change, Racism, and the Next Pandemic, included a quote from my introduction to YES! Magazines Spring 2021 issue on ecological civilization: Stans vision, like yours, is centered on the premise that The path toward an ecological civilization moves us from an uncivilized society based on selfish wealth accumulation to one that is community-oriented and life-affirming.
I remember the day I wrote that. It was not long after the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. I was incensed by so many white peoples response to what happened. This is not America, they said. This is America, I responded in a published commentary.
I challenged those reading my words to do betterto create a better world. If they really believed that the mob violence we witnessed was un-American behavior, they should prove it. Protest, organize, mobilize against harmful policies and ideologies that continue to oppress Black, Indigenous, Brown, Latino, and Asian people, those whove been systemically marginalized in this country and in many cases cast away. Resist politicians and social formations that support imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal ideologies that perpetuate injustice and deny that our consumption habits directly impact global warming.
Thats just a start.
And still, as I wrote my introduction to that YES! issue, I was simultaneously feeling hopeful, encouraged by the stories wed put together in that issue. Progress toward an ecological civilization is already in motion.Were on our way.
It is a message that I wholeheartedly believe, despite a global pandemic, economic devastation, climate disasters, environmental injustices, racial inequities, global uprisings, and continued state and community violence. Even with many people simply going back to business as usualeager to forget the world has lost millions of people to COVID-19 and that millions more are still infectedyes, I still believe!
My understanding of what an ecological civilization is did not come without challenges. I was dismayed to find that the majority of the people writing about this new way forward were mostly of the same race and gender as those who created the current dysfunctional civilization of separation, exploitation, extraction, and violence: white and male. Yet many of the ideas and solutions percolating have Indigenous and female rootswhether in the Americas, Africa, or Asia. Centering Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Asian perspectives became crucial. As I edited the ecological civilization issue, I found that the work now being given a new framing was in fact already being done, mostly at a grassroots level, and in some cases for centuries.
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