{"id":9269,"date":"2012-12-17T15:19:30","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T23:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=9269"},"modified":"2012-12-17T15:19:30","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T23:19:30","slug":"our-pass-fail-moment-livable-ecology-capitalism-occupy-and-what-is-to-be-done-critical-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2012\/12\/our-pass-fail-moment-livable-ecology-capitalism-occupy-and-what-is-to-be-done-critical-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Pass-Fail Moment: Livable Ecology, Capitalism, Occupy, and What is to be Done | Critical Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ojs.library.ubc.ca\/index.php\/criticaled\/index\"><em>CRITICAL EDUCATION<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nVol 3, No 10 (2012)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ojs.library.ubc.ca\/index.php\/criticaled\/article\/view\/183549\">Our Pass-Fail Moment: Livable Ecology, Capitalism, Occupy, and What is to be Done<\/a><br \/>\nPaul Street<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ecological crisis is the leading issue of \u201cour or any time\u201d posing grave threats to a decent and democratic future. If the environmental catastrophe isn\u2019t forestalled, \u201ceverything else we\u2019re talking about won\u2019t matter\u201d (Noam Chomsky).  Like other issues leftists cite as major developments of the last half-century, the environmental crisis is intimately bound up with numerous other deep changes (growing inequality, authoritarian neoliberalism, corporate globalization, U.S. imperial expansion, and more) and grounded in the imperatives of capital and the profits system. Tackling the crisis in a meaningful way will bring numerous related and collateral benefits (including significant opportunities for socially useful and necessary work\/employment) beyond and alongside environmental survival. To prioritize ecology is not to demote or delay radical social reconstruction. It means the elevation and escalation of the red project.  It is highly unlikely that the crisis can be solved within the framework of capitalism.<\/p>\n<p>This article was originally delivered as a Keynote Address at the Rouge Forum 2012: Occupy Education! Class Conscious Pedagogies and Social Change, on June 21, 2012 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keywords<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Social Movements; Capitalism; Ecology; Occupy; Green Jobs; The Profits System; Revolution; Envrionment, Green Marxism; Rouge-Verde; ecological crisis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CRITICAL EDUCATION Vol 3, No 10 (2012) Our Pass-Fail Moment: Livable Ecology, Capitalism, Occupy, and What is to be Done Paul Street Abstract The ecological crisis is the leading issue of \u201cour or any time\u201d posing grave threats to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2012\/12\/our-pass-fail-moment-livable-ecology-capitalism-occupy-and-what-is-to-be-done-critical-education\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2267],"tags":[362532,897,4772,1518,506305],"class_list":["post-9269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications","tag-occupy","tag-capitalism","tag-critical-education","tag-ecology","tag-paul-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9270,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9269\/revisions\/9270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}