# Working class and green politics > Climate change and other severe environmental problems demand working class solutions. The productivity and creativity of workers is vital to ecological alternatives. > > – [[Imperialism is the Arsonist: Marxism's Contribution to Ecological Literatures and Struggles]] > Workers produce and can produce alternative sustainable futures, the concept of workers’ plans for ecological production is important > > – [[Imperialism is the Arsonist: Marxism's Contribution to Ecological Literatures and Struggles]]