The Problem With Degrowth
We need radical change to address climate change. But degrowth needlessly shackles its vision of a socialist future to a program of aggregate reduction.
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The Climate Movement Must Be Ready To Challenge Rising Right-Wing Environmentalism
Right-wing forces have denied the existence of climate change for decades, but we are beginning to see a shift away from crude denial toward a terrifying eco-fascism. We have to oppose any attempt to use the climate crisis to justify racist, reactionary, and authoritarian policies.
Joe Biden’s Own Staff Are Now Saying He’s Not Doing Enough on Climate Change
The Biden administration’s climate inaction is so bad that his own agency experts have signed a letter begging him to act to roll back emissions while there’s still time.
Americans Are Migrating Toward Climate Disaster, Not Away From It
Census data shows Americans are moving out of locales most insulated from climate change and into the most climate-threatened regions. The results could be disastrous in the near future.
Climate-Fueled Displacement Is Already Happening in the United States
Climate change–fueled displacement is often thought of as a future problem, or one that primarily affects people in developing countries. But natural disasters caused or exacerbated by the climate crisis are already frequently displacing people within the US.
The Right’s Green Awakening
Leading Republicans are abandoning climate-change denialism in order to design "green" policy favorable to capital.
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?
Stopping Climate Change Will Never Be “Good Business”
Climate activist and writer Bill McKibben's new book is an excellent account of how urgent the climate crisis in front of us is. But it stumbles in trying to prescribe green capitalist solutions to a problem that requires systematic change.
The Democrats Are Climate Deniers
If the Democrats really believed the science on climate change, they'd be offering far more radical proposals. We have to make them.
BlackRock Is Profiting Off the Climate Crisis
For companies like BlackRock, the climate crisis is a valuable investment opportunity. They've positioned themselves to make money no matter how — or whether — governments address climate change.
How Not to Talk About Climate Change
The New York Times Magazine claims in a blockbuster new article that democracy and human nature are to blame for the climate crisis. They're wrong.
Salt the Earth
Young people looking to fight climate change should consider jobs in strategic industries to organize new unions or revitalize old ones and advocate for green, pro-labor policies. The fight for a livable future can’t be won without organized labor.
There’s No Time for Gradualism
The urgency of climate change has never been clearer. We need a bold vision of a good and livable future — and a political program to match.
Climate Action Can Win Majorities
Democrats shouldn’t stop talking about climate change — they just need to foreground workers’ affordability concerns in discussions of climate action.
Corporations Are Using Carbon Credits to Exploit Refugees
The UN is putting refugees to work in poorly paid green jobs to generate carbon credits for billion-dollar firms. It’s one of the most cynical instances of a corporate greenwashing agenda that has done little to address climate change.
Why Naomi Klein Has Been Right
By following the development of global capitalism and international left movements for the past three decades, Naomi Klein has analyzed the world much more clearly than mainstream political observers — and stayed ahead of the curve in proposing bold solutions to fix our most burning problems like climate change.
We Need a Real Green Jobs Program to Fight Climate Change
Joe Biden’s newly unveiled American Climate Corps is set to provide green jobs training to just 20,000 people. It falls far short of the ambitious public jobs program the Left has long demanded.
Common Nonsense
Extinction Rebellion’s cofounder Roger Hallam wants a mass revolt against climate change. But while his new book calls for activists to engage in “disruption” against politicians, it offers no blueprint for the workers who have the power to transform the economic structures that created our climate crisis.
Emmanuel Macron’s Weak Pandemic Response Is a Bad Omen for His Promises on Climate Action
Like the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change is a threat to all humanity. But it’s working-class people who are suffering most — and faced with both crises, Emmanuel Macron’s government is not taking concrete action to help.
The Solution is Democracy
Democracy isn’t a barrier to solving global issues like climate change. It's humanity’s best hope.