Canada’s Carbon Emissions Cover-Up
Canada’s carbon footprint is not just a step but a giant leap beyond what’s been claimed. A six-year study pulls back the curtain on the environmental debacle, revealing emissions rates that dwarf industry figures.
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Hawaii Is Bailing Out Its Wildfire-Causing Energy Company
After being found responsible for starting a deadly wildfire last summer, Hawaii’s for-profit energy utility is set to receive a public bailout. The episode makes a powerful case for bringing utilities under public ownership.
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.
Labor and Climate Must Unite. That’s Easier Said Than Done.
The idea that the labor and climate movements must unite for a Green New Deal is more popular than ever. To get it done, we'll need to take the threat of job loss seriously, finding and uplifting commonalities between climate goals and worker self-interest.
The Global Laws That Help Corporations Block Climate Action
Companies have long used international treaties to try to prevent Global South countries from asserting economic sovereignty. In recent decades, corporations have used such laws to stymie European governments’ attempts to tackle the climate crisis.
Workers, Not Technocrats, Can Secure a Sustainable Planet
Liberals believe that the greatest obstacle to necessary climate intervention is a lack of social awareness and professional leadership. The real problem is the absence of a militant, worker-led climate stabilization program.
Mongolia’s Neoliberal Turn Has Been an Ecological Disaster
Mongolia is experiencing a disastrous winter with alarming consequences for its agricultural output. Reports have highlighted the negative impact of climate change, but the country’s neoliberal transformation since the 1990s is the biggest factor.
For a Green Transition, Decommodify Electricity
Despite the plummeting costs of solar and wind power, renewables have not been profitable enough to attract adequate private investment. To decarbonize, public investment in clean power and reclaiming electricity as a public utility are essential.
Marxism, the Land, and the Global Working Class
Solving our global ecological crises today requires understanding how capitalism has transformed humanity’s relationship to the land. Karl Marx’s thought gives us the tools to do just that.
Lula and the Ranchers
In Brazil, Lula has wagered that concessions to agribusiness elites are necessary to advance his redistributive project. Yet these very elites may undermine his whole program.
Greek Unions Want Paid Time Off When It’s Too Hot to Work
Greece’s latest heat wave in July highlighted the danger of 100°F-plus temperatures for workers toiling in the sun. Trade unions are proposing a sensible solution: mandatory, paid stoppages on outdoor work when temperatures reach dangerous levels.
For and Against Climate Progress in the Atomic Garden
A new book opposing nuclear energy unintentionally highlights how 1970s opposition was a dead end for the Left. By examining contemporary arguments, it becomes clear that this historic stance has hindered climate progress and energy reliability.
Obsessing Over Climate Disinformation Is a Wrong Turn
Much of the climate movement is now pouring its energies into combating disinformation. But this focus fails to address real concerns about a green transition and obscures what is needed to win the public over to effective climate action.
Public-Private Partnerships Hurt the Clean Energy Transition
When governments rely on free-market forces for the shift away from fossil fuels, gains are left in private hands while the public is responsible for losses.
Fighting Climate Disinformation Is an Urgent Priority
The fossil fuel industry runs a sprawling, lavishly funded operation spreading lies about the climate crisis. Pushing back against that disinformation needs to be a priority for the climate movement.
A Climate Disinformation Focus Takes Us the Wrong Way
The concept of “climate disinformation” does not lead us to genuine solutions for the problem of climate change — it leads us toward new risks.
All Roads Lead to Ruin
Sunil Amrith’s The Burning Earth takes us on a gloomy and bleak tour of how, in the name of progress, Western empires made a mess of everything.
Maine Unions Lead on the Green Energy Transition
For an example of how the labor movement can play a key role in the push for green energy, look to Maine, where unions’ leadership of a red-green coalition has been essential in the state’s push for offshore wind.
Preventing Climate Change Isn’t Expensive. Doing Nothing Is.
The price tag for enacting the most basic measures needed to mitigate climate change might seem steep — until you realize just how devastatingly expensive the natural disasters exacerbated by climate change are and will be very soon.
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.