Toward Climate Justice: Perspectives on the Climate Crisis and Social Change

The call for Climate Justice promises a renewed grassroots response to the climate crisis. This emerging movement is rooted in land-based and urban communities around the world that have experienced the most severe impacts of global climate changes. Climate Justice highlights the social justice and human rights dimensions of the crisis, using creative direct action to press for real, systemic changes. Toward Climate Justice explains the case for Climate Justice, challenges the myths underlying carbon markets and other false solutions, and looks behind the events that have obstructed the advance of climate policies at the UN and in the US Congress. This fully revised edition includes numerous updates on current climate science and politics worldwide. Drawing on more than three decades of political engagement with energy and climate issues, author Brian Tokar shows how the perspective of social ecology can point the way toward an ecological reconstruction of society.


Brian Tokar is a lecturer in Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont. Since the 1980s he is an activist, author and well-known critical voice for ecological activism. He serves on the board of 350-Vermont, and is currently the Director of the Institute for Social Ecology. Tokar has lectured throughout the U.S., as well as internationally, and is acclaimed as an advocate of grassroots action for ecological sanity and global justice. He received a Project Censored award for his investigative history of Monsanto, originally published in The Ecologist, and he has contributed to "The Routledge Handbook of the Climate Change Movement," "A Line in the Tar Sands," and other recent books.