Radical Responses to the Environmental Crisis

Monday, November 23, 2020 - 1:00pm
CST
Mauricio Betancourt, Fred Magdoff & Victor Wallis

Climate change has brought about a multi-pronged environmental crisis that seems to get worse every day. How can we transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy? How can we restore biodiversity? What will it take for environmental movements to force changes in governmental and corporate policies? Can we restore balance with nature under capitalism or do we need socialism? A distinguished panel discusses what we can do to avert disaster. 

Fred Magdoff is Professor Emeritus of Plant and Soil Science at the University of Vermont and author or co-author of many books, including What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know about Capitalism (2011) and Creating an Ecological Society: Toward a Revolutionary Transformation (2017).

Victor Wallis is professor of political science at the Berklee College of Music, former editor of Socialism and Democracy and author of Red-Green Revolution: The Politics and Technology of Ecosocialism (2018), Democracy Denied: Five Lectures on U.S. Politics (2019), and Socialist Practice: Histories and Theories (2020).

Mauricio Betancourt is a Ph.D.candidate in Sociology at University of Oregon in Eugene. He has been involved with an agroecology project in Zaachila, Oaxaca, Mexico, and is the author of "The effect of Cuban agroecology in mitigating the metabolic rift: A quantitative approach to Latin American food production," Global Environmental Change (2020).

Upcoming Events

Monday, October 20, 2025 - 1:30pm
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Bruce Hobson & Meizhu Lui
Location:
La Biblioteca, Teatro Santa Ana, Insurgentes 25, Centro, San Miguel de Allende

Co-founders of the Mexico Solidarity Project, Bruce Hobson and Meizhu Lui will speak on why North American progressives should understand why Mexico is critical to advancing a vision of socialism and multiracial democracy in the United States.

 

Wednesday, October 22, 2025 - 12:00pm
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Organized by The Reentry Resource Program

You are invited to join a discussion with filmmaker Santiago Esteinou and Cesar Fierro about the new documentaryThe Freedom of Fierro.

César Fierro has just become a free man, and he needs to rebuild his life after being wrongly sentenced to death in Texas. César spent 40 years in prison before being released... Read more

Monday, November 3, 2025 - 1:30pm
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Joe Belden
Location:
La Biblioteca, Sala Quezal, Insurgentes 25, Centro, San Miguel de Allende
This mostly forgotten war led to Mexico losing over half its territory and the United States expanding to the Pacific. The lecture examines the political and economic background of the conflict, what led to it, and the roles of such factors as Texas annexation in 1845, slavery, racism, the Democratic and Whig parties, and Manifest... Read more