An exploration into history that points towards a future of climate justice.

The imminent climate and environmental crisis is the result of historically grown and thus overturnable social conditions. Milo Probst takes the reader on a tour of emancipatory battles of the 19th and early 20th century, to show just what is possible – there is always an alternative. He shows connections and roots from the past from which something new can grow: Probst thus rediscovers Pierre Quiroule, an anarchist activist and author who, in the early 20th century of Buenos Aires, committed himself to a broader understanding of solidarity not only among humans, but including nature. He rediscovers a British socialist, Edward Carpenter, who tried to motivate workers to fight against air pollution in the 1890s, or again a Cuban independence fighter, anarchist and feminist Louise Michel and many others. Their stories show that real humanity is possible – in joint battles, in real solidarity and by breaking up with a system of methodical dehumanisation.

Environmentalism of the 99 percent is a reinvention of anti-capitalist traditions. It definitely is anti-racist, feminist and decolonizing, internationalist and a class struggle. All of us who are exploited, discriminated against and excluded by the current system need to unite in understanding that climate justice and environmentalism are genuinely social questions.