Belgium’s Hottest Winter
Tens of thousands of students in Europe have launched "school strikes" to demand a Green New Deal and reject their governments' moderation on climate change.
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Elizabeth Warren’s Lean Green Fighting Machine
The way to cut military climate emissions is to scale back the United States’ enormous empire. Elizabeth Warren has no plan for that.
Pension Investment in Renewables May Be Undermining a Just Transition
Pension investments in renewables sound like a win-win for the environment and retirees. But an examination of Canadian pension funds’ involvement in the sector tells a different story — one of labor exploitation and environmental harm.
Crash and Burn
You can't have capitalist growth without environmental destruction.
The Nature of Capitalism
The ruling class will never give up fossil fuel, because it's key to their power over workers.
Stop Polluting Our Green New Deal
As climate protests sweep across Europe, neoliberals are misusing the name “Green New Deal” to push new kinds of market incentives.
We’re in a Climate Crisis — But the Pipelines Keep Coming
Federal officials are approving fossil fuel projects that enrich shareholders, fleece customers, and exacerbate the climate crisis.
The Climate Crisis Is Highlighting the Mistreatment of Canada’s Migrant Workers
After a summer of disastrous forest fires, British Columbia is now experiencing extreme flooding. As well as causing untold misery for Canadian citizens, environmental catastrophe is also exposing how few protections exist for migrant workers.
How Right-Wingers Hijacked Green Politics in Norway
Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago 1,234 miles off coast, has become a site of climate change–fueled conflicts around immigration and workers’ rights. Right-wingers have used the crisis to advance their own agenda — offering a cautionary tale for the Left.
Joe Biden Is Almost as Pro-Drilling as Trump
Despite pausing oil and gas leases on public land, Joe Biden approved nearly 1,200 drilling permits in a mere three months — a number almost as high as Donald Trump’s over a similar period at the end of his term.
Setting Kevin Rudd’s Environmental Record Straight
Former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd wrote an angry letter to Jacobin last week, defending his work on climate change. Greens MP Adam Bandt begs to differ.
The COP27 Climate Summit Was Another Exercise in Corporate Greenwashing
Last week’s COP27 summit in Egypt ended with the world still on track for a disastrous rise in global temperatures. But a new climate policy from Brazil after Jair Bolsonaro’s defeat was one ray of hope for those on the front lines of the climate crisis.
Joe Biden Is Still Pushing to Expand Offshore Drilling
Joe Biden claims to believe the science on climate change. So why is his administration declaring that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report “does not present sufficient cause" to stop expanding oil drilling?
The Climate Crisis and COVID-19 Are Inseparable
Commentators like to point to Wuhan’s “wet markets” as the source of the pandemic, but COVID-19 is the result of a much larger, global phenomenon of environmental degradation. Combatting both means putting the politics of food production and land use at the very heart of our socialist project.
What a Bernie Sanders Presidency Would Look Like
Bernie Sanders often argues, “Beating Trump is not good enough.” This is an understatement. The world quite literally depends on us winning a political revolution. Only Bernie has a plan for that.
After LA’s Fires, Don’t Weep for the Insurance Companies
It is absurd to suggest that insurance companies have been blindsided by increasing climate risks. On the contrary, they’ve been fully aware, highly prepared, and hard at work protecting profits at the expense of policyholders.
Bernie Wants to Seize the Means of Electricity Production
Bernie Sanders's Green New Deal proposal isn't just the boldest proposal to save the planet that any candidate has made yet. It also includes the United States moving to 100 percent public ownership of our power grid.
Elites Won’t Save the Planet — We Need a Mass Movement
At COP26 this week, some of the world’s biggest corporate polluters sent huge delegations to proclaim the need for climate action. They’re presenting themselves as the new climate saviors, but averting disaster won’t come from those who make a profit from killing the planet.
People’s Climate March FAQ
Everything you need to know about this weekend’s mobilizations against climate change.
Europe’s Big Polluters Want to Ensure the EU Doesn’t Limit Their Polluting
The European Union is weighing major climate legislation to scale back emissions across the continent. But there’s a familiar foe mobilizing to scale back the legislation: lobbyists for corporate polluters.