I've recently been posting on an Ecosocialism Facebook page in an attempt to ferret out how Ecosocialism functions as an environmental orientation to Socialism.
As far as I can tell, it doesn't. Ecosocialism became an -ism in 2002 with the publication of Joel Kovel's The Enemy of Nature, an attempt to resuscitate moribund traditional Socialism faced with a declining biosphere under the assault of capitalist hegemony. Kovel's original vision was to sharpen anti-capitalist discourse and action by articulating capital's deleterious effects on the biosphere, including but not limited to climate change. Some five years later, Ian Angus created Climate and Capitalism, which firmly set ecosocialism in the context of climate change alone, leaving out all of the other environmental damage caused by capitalist exploitation and expansion. In essence, Ecosocialism starts with anthropocentrist Socialism and adds concerns for the environmental effects of capitalist to add currency and legitimacy to its argument. In contrast, Deep Ecology starts with a biocentric viewpoint that includes humans and human societies as an essential component. Or so it seems to me.
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