Ecosocialism and Its Implication to the Nigerian State

The environmental crisis remains unabated. It is still raging on in phenomena such as gas flaring, deforestation, depletion of the ozone layer, climate change, desertification, unplanned urbanization, and so forth. The impact of the crisis is felt in every region of the world including Nigeria. Nigeria has experienced many environmental problems like the ones mentioned above. Others are soil erosion, illegal mining, environmental insecurities, violent struggles over natural resources, etc. Various ideologies have been proposed for curbing the environmental crisis such as communalism, socialism, capitalism, nationalism, democracy, communism, ecofeminism, ecowomanism, and so forth. This paper critically and hermeneutically examines the ideology of ecosocialism and its appropriateness to the Nigerian state. The paper shows why ecosocialism has some positive ideas that should inspire the Nigerian state in ecological protection, it should not be adopted in an uncritical manner hook, line, and sinker. The paper reveals that Nigeria is troubled by many environmental problems. It concludes that the good points of ecosocialism should be adopted and used to create an environmentally friendly Nigerian state.