Canada: Events on Struggles Toward A Post-Petroleum World

Energy crisis oil sold out Canada: Events on Struggles Toward A Post Petroleum World

As the world’s energy system faces a period of unprecedented change, a global struggle is intensifying over who controls this sector, and for what purposes. The question of “green capitalism” is unavoidable for capitalist planners and anti-capitalist struggles alike. From all sides we hear that it’s time to save the planet in order to save the economy, but what lies before us is the next round of global class struggle with energy at the center, as the key means of production and subsistence.

Please join organizers for two events with Kolya Abramsky, editor of the new anthology, Sparking A Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-Petrol World to discuss

1. Workshop on “Renewable Energies, Capitalist Crisis and Class
Struggles: the View from the Global South”

12:30pm-3:00pm, York University Student Centre, Room 313. (Sponsored by OPIRG York)

2. Toronto Launch of Sparking A Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social
Struggles in the Transition to a Post-Petrol World featuring a presentation from editor Kolya Abramsky. (Sponsored by OPIRG Toronto and Upping the Anti)

Thursday, March 10 at 7pm. Back Room of the Regal Beagle, 335 Bloor St
W. (South side of Bloor St. in between Spadina and St. George)

Kolya Abramsky is a former visiting fellow at the Institute of Advanced
Studies in Science, Technology and Society, in Graz, Austria, where he
received the Manfred-Heindler Award for Energy and Climate Change
Research, and in 2006 was coordinator of the Danish-based World Wind
Energy Institute, an international effort in non-commercial renewable
energy education, involving different renewable energy centers from
around the world. Abramsky has worked for over a decade with a range of grassroots social and environmental organizations around the world doing educational work, international mobilizations, publications and translations. He is currently coordinating Towards a Worldwide Energy Revolution, a global project that aims to bring together people from a wide range of organizations and struggles to build long term alliances in order to prepare for an anti-capitalist transition to a new energy system.

More information about the book Sparking A Worldwide Energy Revolution:

There are no easy answers in this battle for control of the world’s energy system. “Sparking A Worldwide Energy Revolution” is not a book of sound bites. It unpacks the seemingly innocent terms “energy sector” and “energy system” by situating the current energy crisis, peak oil, and the transition to a post-petrol future within a historical understanding of the global, social, economic, political, financial, military, and ecological relations of which energy and technology are parts.

With over fifty chapters written by contributors from approximately twenty countries, /Sparking A Worldwide Energy Revolution/ forms a collective map of the most dynamic struggles within the energy sector.

For more information please email uppingtheanti@gmail.com

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One Comment to “Canada: Events on Struggles Toward A Post-Petroleum World”

  1. Rebekah 9 March 2011 at 5:33 pm #

    Hi,
    I have something to contribute to the discourse about reduction of greenhouse emissions. There is an aspect of religious law, in particular obvious in shari’ah, but a part of the holy logos and dharma of every religion. It says to us something like, that when there are conditions of emergency for our human survival, it is acceptable to conduct oneself in a way such as that, whoever the bad guys were, they can imagine that the good guys are just as bad. This is what gives creedence to what is known as “green capitalism”. This is WHY it is happening to the global economy, that only the green economy is not sliding into decline. This is evidence, for anybody with socialist inclination, that, when it comes to the environment’s needs, it may well prove appropriate to tow a capitalist line for a while longer. We are not to forget what is in our heart, and mind, and ought not forget our individual beliefs in God, about money and its uses, but neither can we forget the Earth and her atmosphere. If green capitalism proved to be the fastest way to save the economy, then it may be that even socialists need support that. If socialist revolution, or any other kinds of revolutions, prove to be what will save the planet and her atmosphere, then that will be what we need support.