What’s Wrong With Obama’s Clean Power Plan?
Barack Obama promised a transformative presidency on climate change. Environmental justice activists are still waiting.
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We Have to Figure Out How to Design a Warming Planet
Architects and designers are often left carrying out the orders of developers interested only in maximizing profits. But a new book argues they have a vital role to play in transforming our built environment in a world transformed by climate change.
Now Trump and Big Oil Are Trying to Gut an Anti-Corruption Rule
Trump regulators are trying to pull off a last-minute scheme to undermine a rule designed to prevent fossil fuel companies from bribing government officials. It’s a fitting final act for a corrupt administration that’s set back the fight against climate change by decades.
The Progressive Pieces of the Budget Reconciliation Bill Are Quickly Disappearing
Democratic leaders are moving to gut the parts of the budget reconciliation bill that would aid workers and fight climate change. House progressives like Pramila Jayapal shouldn’t vote for an empty husk of a bill.
Illapa Sairitupac Wants to Bring Socialist Representation Back to Lower Manhattan
Illapa Sairitupac is a social worker and socialist running for New York State Assembly. In an interview, Sairitupac talks about his family immigrating from Peru, socialism’s history in Lower Manhattan, Christianity, and his plans to fight climate change.
A Worldwide Tax on Extreme Wealth Could Lift Billions Out of Poverty
A new report reveals the breathtaking extent of global inequality — and the vast progress that a global wealth tax could underwrite in areas like child poverty and climate change.
The World of Our Grandchildren
Noam Chomsky discusses ISIS, Israel, climate change, and the kind of world future generations may inherit.
The Problem With Finance Is the Problem of Capitalism
Finance’s dominance over the economy isn’t a deviant evolution of a “good” industrial capitalism. Finance and industry are interdependent — meaning solving problems like inequality and climate change will require a far-reaching democratization of the economy.
Colombia’s Receding Coastline
In Colombia, coastal erosion caused by a combination of climate change and environmentally destructive industrial agriculture is displacing the country’s poorest citizens. But the scale of the disaster means that it has no easy solutions.
Adam McKay: Global Warming Is Not Being Treated Like an Emergency
Don’t Look Up director Adam McKay writes in Jacobin about climate change and the institutional blindness and warped incentives that should scare the crap out of all of us.
At Davos, Capitalists Are Trying to Solve the Problems They Themselves Create
At the World Economic Forum’s conference in Davos this week, elites will try to address problems from climate change to the threat of worldwide recession. But these elites’ endless thirst for profit created these problems — and will doom their efforts to fail.
We Need to Change How We Talk About Climate Action
The Left needs a message on climate action that’s about giving more opportunities for working-class people rather than restricting individual behavior.
The Ecological Is Political
In the coming crisis, inequality will kill as many people as storms do.
In Russia, Too, Capital Is Painting Itself Green
Given its powerful oil oligarchs, it’s easy to assume Russia is the quintessential climate denier. Yet the rise of corporate ESG policies in the country suggests Russian capital wants to greenwash just as much as its Western peers.
Capitalism Can’t Fix the Climate Crisis
Neither corporations nor liberals will stop climate disaster. The Left can.
How to Change Everything
Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything is a vital book whose limitations should spark discussion about where we go from here.
At a Fossil Fuels Summit, the Climate Crisis Is Totally Under Control
The country and the planet are engulfed in climate disasters. But the consensus at one of the country’s biggest fossil-fuel summits is that only the fossil-fuel capitalists that caused this crisis can be trusted to save us.
Climate Crisis and the War in Ukraine
Ukraine’s energy infrastructure is a major Russian military target. But the system also faces another enemy: climate disasters putting ever more strain on the power grid.
The Flood Next Time
Life after emergency.