Planning the Good Anthropocene
The market is blindly leading us toward climate calamity — democratic planning is a way out.
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How Much Should We Intervene to Save Species?
Widespread disruptions caused by the climate crisis are now inevitable. The people whose jobs are to maintain ecosystems such as the boreal forest are facing the difficult choice of how much to intervene.
Noam Chomsky: Ending Climate Change “Has to Come From Mass Popular Action,” Not Politicians
Noam Chomsky talks about US hypocrisy in stoking needless conflict with China, the unnecessarily bloody and grinding war in Afghanistan, and why the United States could easily solve climate change.
What’s Wrong With Obama’s Clean Power Plan?
Barack Obama promised a transformative presidency on climate change. Environmental justice activists are still waiting.
The Reconciliation Bill Gives a Huge Gift to the Gas Industry
The reconciliation bill’s clean energy rebate program sneaks in a provision that could tie homeowners’ appliances to natural gas for a long time — benefiting fossil fuel companies at the expense of the climate.
The Los Angeles Fires Didn’t Have to Be This Bad
From budgetary neglect to climate inaction to private monopolies, political choices have fanned the flames of California’s devastating fires.
C. L. R. James in the Age of Climate Change
What does C. L. R. James's reading of Moby-Dick tell us about ruling elites and climate change today?
Justin Trudeau’s Pipeline Boondoggle
An energy company wasn't sure they could complete a pipeline expansion to transport some of the world's dirtiest oil. Luckily for them, Justin Trudeau stepped in to help.
Children’s Singer Raffi on Creating a Society That Respects and Cherishes Kids
Today is International Children’s Day. To celebrate, we spoke to beloved children’s singer Raffi about nurturing the creativity and sense of play of children, his support for Bernie Sanders, organizing against climate change and for racial justice, and how we can create a society in which we “admire and respect the young child as a whole person.”
Why Environmentalists Are Still Losing
Dissatisfaction at established green parties and environmental NGOs has fed the rise of more confrontational forms of activism. The task can’t just be to raise awareness but to mobilize millions of people in fighting for their own interests.
Can We Engineer a Livable Future?
Some scientists think we should slow climate change through carbon capture and solar geoengineering. Is that a gamble worth taking?
The West’s Anti-Worker Interest Rate Hikes Are Drowning the Global South in Debt
Policymakers in the Global North have mostly responded to rising inflation by raising interest rates. That’s bad for their own workers — and it’s creating a debt crisis for many countries in the Global South.
For Humanity, David Koch Died Decades Too Late
David Koch was an evil man who dedicated his life to evil. Humanity will be coping with the damage he did for centuries.
How the Green New Deal Can Deliver Land Justice
Land is a source of both enormous wealth and horrendous inequality. The Green New Deal can reverse historic injustices while pushing agriculture into the sustainable, low-carbon future.
How Austria’s Greens Became the Right’s Best Ally
Austria’s right-wing chancellor Sebastian Kurz promises his coalition with the Greens will “protect both the climate and the borders.” But while the Greens have accepted a right-wing agenda on immigration, the partners’ shared neoliberal assumptions will hobble action on the climate.
The Legacy of Mike Davis’s Late Victorian Holocausts
In Late Victorian Holocausts, Mike Davis showed how late 19th-century state violence and neglect created colonial markets and infrastructures, which, combined with shifting weather patterns, led to astonishingly brutal famines across the Global South.
Stop the Nonsense: Justin Trudeau Is No Marxist
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre’s farcical labeling of Justin Trudeau as a communist echoes hysterical historical precedents. The rhetoric underscores a cynical misunderstanding of both Trudeau’s policies and communism.
Politicize Hurricane Harvey
There's no avoiding politics when talking about Hurricane Harvey and its tragic aftermath.
Heat Kills. Trump Has Ensured There Will Be More Victims.
We should be slashing emissions and climate-proofing our cities. Instead, Republicans are turning up the carbon spew and stripping away heat protections — effectively condemning the poor to die under rising temperatures.
The Scottish National Party Can’t Be Trusted to Tackle the Climate Crisis
Nicola Sturgeon’s SNP has teamed up with the pro-independence Scottish Greens. But Sturgeon’s rhetoric on climate change has never been matched by action.