| Ecological Class Politics
by Bernd Röttger and Markus Wissen
The Historical Contradiction between Ecology and Emanicipation [1]
Ecology and the emancipation of the working class are, considered in a historical sense, a contradiction. Or at least, that’s the case for the Global North. Local struggles for social and political rights, as Timothy Mitchelll (2011) demonstrates in his book Carbon Democracy, considerably profited from the fact that in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, coal as an energy source began to play a prominent role economically.
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