Joel Kovel on Eco-Socialism, Toronto, Ontario, April 3, 2007
Tuesday April 3: A Really Inconvenient Truth - the Left After Kyoto
Lecture by renowned US-based activist, media commentator and professor, Joel Kovel. Kovel sought the Green Party 2000 U.S. Presidential nomination and has served as a professor in psychiatry, anthropology, political science, social studies, and communications. His ten books include The Enemy of
Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?, White Racism: A Psychohistory, and Red Hunting in the Promised Land: Anticommunism and the Making of America. He is currently editor-in-chief of Capitalism Nature Socialism.
Growing numbers of people are beginning to realize that an ecocatastrophe is both possible and likely. Joel Kovel outlines the form of this environmental crisis and how society can be transformed to allow for sustainable development for humanity and nature.
Hosted by OPIRG (UofT). Sponsored by: Capitalism, Nature, Socialism (Toronto); New Socialist Group; Socialist Project; International Socialists.
