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Given the hyper-competition for resources and market share in today’s global economy, the incessant expansion of the private property rights of capital are becoming increasingly antagonistic to the rights of the public to a healthy and clean environment.
Arguing for transitional transformative progressive change should be a joint undertaking. That includes the reduction in the size of or elimination of environmentally destructive sectors as well as democratizing the relations of production. We need both.
As the new Co-Editors in Chief of CNS, Leigh and Danny are committed to further extending the journal’s anti-racism and anti-war themes, extending an ecosocialist ecofeminist lens to analyze current conflicts, and advancing a democratic, ecosocialist politics.
Mass incarceration is anathema to the pursuit of public health and environmental justice because carceral systems are inherently anti-ecological and produce illness and disease within and beyond the walls of confinement.