Ecological imperialism is a "blind spot" for environmentalists who cannot see the connection between war and ecocide. We would expect environmentalists to fight for disarmament and support the conversion of military technology into civilian production.
We need to begin to investigate how to convert both the military and health industrial complexes to the urgent needs required by the Coronavirus crisis.
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The issue is not simply a matter of bringing the environmental movement and the labour movement together; each must be transformed if the sum is to be more than the currently limited parts.
Seymour Melman believed that both political and economic decline could be reversed by vastly scaling back the U.S. military budget which represented a gigantic opportunity cost to the national economy. He believed in a a revolution in thinking and acting centered on the reorganization of economic life and the nation’s security system. The core alternative to economic decline was the democratic organization of workplaces.
Forty years ago, shop workers in Britain developed the Lucas Plan to save jobs by converting arms manufacturing to industrial production. The struggle for economic conversion, and against the deskilling of work through computer-controlled technology remains relevant today in the search for solutions to the environmental crisis and the employment crisis.
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