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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