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Joe Biden Used a Teenage Bernie-Supporting Climate Activist’s Photo for “Hijabi Clout” in an Ad. We Talked to Her About It.
High schooler and climate activist Sabirah Mahmud confronted Joe Biden about climate change at a rally. He wouldn’t fully answer her question — but his campaign used her in an ad as if she were a supporter. She wasn’t happy about it.
Labor in the Age of Climate Change
Any just transition to a green economy must take place on labor's terms — not capital's.
No, the US Has Nothing to Fear From China’s Military
China hawks love to fulminate about how Beijing’s military strength is growing and will challenge the United States in the coming decades. But China’s military is vastly more likely to be fighting climate change than American soldiers.
Joe Biden Is Blatantly Ignoring An Easy Climate Victory
Joe Biden could easily deal a blow to climate change by divesting the federal employee pension fund — the largest of its kind in the world — from fossil fuels. He hasn't.
A Successful Climate Movement Must Be a Working-Class Movement
The only way to stop climate change is to build a mass, working-class movement whose demands both resonate with average people and take on the billionaires who are profiteering from the climate crisis.
A Common Sense for Our Planet
Labour MP Rebecca Long Bailey on why socialism is the only basis on which we can begin to confront the threat of climate change.
BlackRock and Wall Street Firms Like Them Are No Friends of the Environment
BlackRock is being depicted as an environmental hero for its recent commitment to fight climate change — at the same time the Wall Street firm undermines climate action and helps companies hide dark money political spending.
Bernie Is the Best Chance We Have on Climate
Electing Bernie Sanders president wouldn’t be enough to fight climate change. But his class-struggle politics give us the best chance we have to take on the fossil fuel companies.
Oil Companies Are Still Determined to Burn the Planet Down
The big energy firms have largely stopped denying the scientific consensus about climate change. But behind their rhetoric about “net zero emissions,” there’s an unflinching determination to keep profiting from oil and gas, whatever the cost.
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.
Labor’s Future in the Global Trade War
As trade tensions rise and industrial policies are reshaped, labor faces critical decisions in a world plagued by economic nationalism and climate change.
Save the Climate, Dismantle the Border Apparatus
The threat is climate change, not immigration. Pro-migrant politics should be part of any effort to tackle the climate crisis.
Big Oil Has a Friend in California’s State Insurance Commissioner
California insurance commissioner Ricardo Lara could be playing a key role in fighting climate change in the state. Instead, he has taken campaign money and gifts from fossil fuel interests — and done “almost nothing” to address climate catastrophe.
Kim Stanley Robinson on Science Fiction and Reclaiming Science for the Left
Writer Kim Stanley Robinson talks to Jacobin about Ministry of the Future and his other books, climate change, and why he thinks the Left should reclaim science as a tool of socialist progress.
Bangladesh’s Disaster Capitalism
Climate change is driving Bangladeshi women out of the countryside and into exploitative garment factories.
Climate Activists Have to Fight for the Right to Fight Climate Change
The Trump administration worked hard to restricted and prevent shareholder actions and divestment strategies against fossil fuel industries. Reversing those rules under a Biden administration is key to defeating the planet's worst polluters.
The Media Covered LA’s Climate Disaster Like an Action Movie
TV networks turned the Los Angeles fires into a sensationalist spectacle, repeating words like “inferno” on a loop while almost completely avoiding any mention of climate change. Their coverage treated the disaster as entertainment rather than a warning.
The Mainstream Media Is Failing to Highlight the Climate Disaster of Another Trump Presidency
Donald Trump has spent the past month openly courting fossil fuel money and mocking the very idea of climate change. This delusional and catastrophic posture has barely registered in the US news media.
The Carbon Tax Is Doomed
The burden of market-based climate change solutions will fall on workers. We need strong state intervention.