Class & Climate: The COP Folly with Martin Empson

About this episode

Martin Empson discusses the bureaucratization of climate organizing at the Conferences of Parties.

The UK-based climate activist and writer explains how the Conferences of Parties have bureaucratized climate organizing. Martin Empson is a climate activist from the UK and the editor and a contributor to System Change not Climate Change, a book of essays from socialists around the world on the nature of capitalism's ecological crisis and the radical response that is needed. On this eighth episode of Class & Climate: Perspectives on a Green Economy, the Green Economy Network's national co...

People in this episode

Guest: Martin Empson

Topics covered

• climate change
• activism
• socialism
• ecological crisis
• COP conferences

Keywords

• climate activism
• COP
• bureaucratization
• capitalism
• ecological crisis

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: System Change not Climate Change, Green Economy Network

Places: UK

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