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About Kamran Nayeri

In a sense, every human being is in search of her place in the world. Mine has taken me through socialism, that I began to discover in 1971, to ecological socialism, that I have begun to help define since 2009 in my own writings and by selection of posts in Our Place in the World: A Journal of Ecosocialism (OPITW). My view of ecological socialism has been inspired by those who like Henry David Thoreau believe that "In wildness is the preservation of the world." In June 2017, I collected my own writings from OPITW and established Kamran Nayeri’s writings blog to facilitate their access to anyone interested. To contact me about my own writings write to kamran.nayeri@gmail.com and for editorial issues about OPITW to editor.OPITW@gmail.com. Since October 2018, Julie Callahan has joined OPITW as the Associated Editor. Please, welcome Julie. Thank you for your interest in ecocentric socialism, my own view of ecological socialism which stands apart from all hereto anthropocentric socialist and ecosocialist theories. To save the world, we must love it--Mother Earth and web of life of which we are a tiny part.

3135. Opportunities and challenges posed by the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) protests and the Sunrise movement

Originally published: Our Place in the World: A Journal of Ecosocialism on January 1, 2019 (more by Our Place in the World: A Journal of Ecosocialism)

In this essay, I will argue that the leadership of the climate justice movement and the movement for radical social change, which in my opinion is essential for tackling the eco-social world crisis, have fallen short to meet the opportunities and challenges that the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) protests in France (Greeman, December 3, 2018; December 28, 2018) and the Sunrise Movement in the United States have presented.