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A World to Win: Half-Earth Socialism w/ Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass

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🗓️ 16 June 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week, Grace speaks to Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass about their book Half-Earth Socialism. They discuss the problems with proposed solutions to climate breakdown like geoengineering, how neoliberals are coping with the recognition that state planning will be necessary to tackle climate breakdown, and how we can build coalitions to make sure that planning is democratic.


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0:00.0

Hello, and welcome to another episode of A World To It. This week I'm talking to Troy

0:17.1

Vertesi and Drew Pendergrass about their book, Half Socialism. We talk about potential

0:24.2

futures that might emerge from current discussions around geoengineering and the impact that

0:31.2

might have on the earth systems, as well as how those solutions fit within the liberal

0:37.5

imaginary and how we can start to build movements that will allow us to develop democratic solutions

0:45.7

to climate breakdown that reorient production towards social good rather than private

0:51.4

profit. This is a great episode and it also links up to some of the themes that I'll be

0:56.7

exploring in my own book that will be coming out next year. So if you like the episode,

1:02.3

please do share it across social media. You know where to find us. We are at A World

1:06.4

To Win pod and please do consider supporting us on Patreon. We love all of our patrons

1:12.7

and we really need them. So we are at patreon.com slash a world to win pod. Now a word from

1:19.2

our sponsor and then straight into the episode. This episode of A World To Win is brought

1:24.6

to you by the left book club. The left book club is a not for profit subscription book club.

1:29.8

It's an affordable way to get a carefully chosen list of inspiring books that explore

1:33.3

radical alternatives to the current crises of capitalism. I personally am a subscriber

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and I really love having the diversity of books that comes through my letter box because

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it really just encourages me to kind of read outside of genres that I would usually go

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and discounts from publishers including Pluto press and Tribune magazine. A World To Win

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listeners can get their first month subscription for free by going to leftbookclub.com slash

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member and using the code WinFree. That's WinFree all in caps at the checkout.

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