Take on the Fossil Fuel Bosses
The way to think about climate change isn't labor versus environmentalists. It's labor versus the fossil fuel companies who are destroying both worker protections and the planet.
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From Climate Crisis to Solar Communism
The proposals elites are offering at COP21 wouldn't halt climate change. What would a socialist solution look like?
By Any Means Necessary
We need a comprehensive vision of ecological reconstruction — and that means having geoengineering as part of our vision.
Purging Scientific Datasets to Fight “Wokeness” and “Waste”
Astrophysicist Clara Sousa-Silva needs data on Earth’s climate to accurately observe space. Earlier this month, she discovered that crucial climate datasets had disappeared. When DOGE cuts accelerated, more data vanished.
Major Carbon Emitters Are Fighting Accountability in California
As California strains under severe weather, oil companies and industry reps are fighting against legislation that would require large companies to fully disclose carbon emissions across their value chain.
For and Against Climate Progress in the Atomic Garden
A new book opposing nuclear energy unintentionally highlights how 1970s opposition was a dead end for the Left. By examining contemporary arguments, it becomes clear that this historic stance has hindered climate progress and energy reliability.
We Can’t Tackle the Climate Crisis Without a Strong US Left
After all the disruptions of the past year, the threat of ecological breakdown still hangs over us. The US left is in a stronger position than it’s known for decades: now it needs to strengthen its internationalism and mobilize for effective climate action.
Noam Chomsky: “It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way”
In a new interview, Noam Chomsky argues that a livable future free of catastrophic climate change is possible — we just have to take on the billionaires standing in the way.
Beautiful Coal and Disastrous Droughts
Last night, Trump laid out a racist, xenophobic vision for what a warmed world could look like.
Extinction Rebellion’s Liberal Moralism Can’t Save the Planet
Catapulted to media attention by its stunts, Extinction Rebellion has wasted its platform on a message of individualized guilt and obedience to the powerful. To avert climate disaster, we need economic transformation, not pointless moralism.
Rich Countries Are Exporting Climate Breakdown to the Global South
From waste to deforestation to drastic flooding, wealthy countries of the Global North are outsourcing the impacts of their resource extraction to poorer countries in the Global South. Call it “carbon colonialism.”
Naomi Klein on How to Rebuild From the Disaster of Neoliberalism
Longtime leftist writer and activist Naomi Klein discusses her work from No Logo to On Fire, connecting the fight against climate change to the fight for good jobs, and how COVID-19 is showing the utter failure of the neoliberal model.
Illinois Just Won a Big Green Jobs Victory
In Illinois last week, a coalition of unions and environmentalists scored a major victory with a law providing for a miniature Green New Deal: billions invested in clean energy, a commitment to decarbonizing, solid labor standards, and embrace of nuclear power.
Why the Green New Deal Didn’t Get a Hearing
Labour’s plan for a Green Industrial Revolution promised to put climate crisis at the heart of Britain’s general election. But the need for radical solutions soon dropped off the agenda — allowing the defining issue of our time to be once again ignored.
This Year’s Climate Summit Ended on a Hopeful Note
As COP28 concluded in Dubai earlier this week, a closing agreement read by the conference’s chair, Sultan al-Jaber, bolstered the case for a just and equitable global transition away from fossil fuels.
Rich People Are Fueling Climate Catastrophe — But Not Mostly Because of Their Consumption
Rich people have enormous carbon footprints. But the fundamental problem with their climate impact isn’t what they consume — it’s that they own the means of production, and it’s extremely profitable for them to pollute.
The Repression of Stop Cop City Is a Chilling Evolution in Policing of US Climate Activists
US climate defenders have long faced serious threats, but the intensity of the crackdown on Stop Cop City protesters in Atlanta is an escalation. It’s reminiscent of conditions in Latin America, where climate protesters’ lives are frequently on the line.
Private Flood Insurers Are Capitalizing on the Shutdown
With the US government shutdown effectively paralyzing the National Flood Insurance Program, private firms such as Neptune Insurance Holdings are seizing the opportunity to push for the near-total privatization of flood insurance.
Brazil’s Far-Right Government Is Using COP26 to Greenwash Its Image
Brazilian leader Jair Bolsonaro is trying to tone down his well-deserved reputation as a climate change denier. But the new proposals from his government serve the same purpose of blocking the radical measures we need to address the climate crisis.
We Need a Global Carbon Tax
A global carbon tax can both mitigate climate change and radically redistribute wealth.