Capitalism is Incompatible: Denial & Greenwashing

“Nature Is Not A Commodity” – Mass Protests at COP30 Summit

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One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out

"At COP30, governments must reject this nightmare fantasy, uphold a just transition, and choose a fast, fair, and funded fossil fuel phaseout," said one climate campaigner.

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One of humanity’s greatest challenges today is the environmental crisis, which threatens our very existence. Our latest dossier explores its class character, showing that the climate catastrophe is a product of capitalism’s relentless drive for accumulation.

A CMCC study in Science Advances finds that net-zero climate policies avoiding 1.5°C overshoot could prevent 207,000 deaths and save $2.3 trillion USD in economic losses by 2030 through cleaner air.

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In the Americas, old forms of extractivism and accumulation are being rebranded under the guise of “green” development. But beneath the surface, the reality is stark: the transition being promoted today is not a break from fossil capitalism—it is its reinvention as a kind of fossil gattopardismo, in which energy demand expands and the extraction of hydrocarbons intensifies as part of the approach to energy transition, under the illusory umbrella of “net zero” policies.

It's never good to hear the words "total societal collapse" from a scholarly paper, but that's exactly the phrasing used in the new UN climate report. We all...

Society is nearing a point at which we will no longer be able to live in the contradictory space between capitalist growth and ecological sustainability. We can either destroy what’s left of our planet in a quest for the last bits of extracted wealth, or transition to an ecological society based on community, mutual aid, and collective production. We cannot do both.

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In a recent interview, UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance Mark Carney spoke about how private finance is increasingly aligned behind achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. He underlined that people everywhere should keep up the pressure in calling for climate action. Read more here.

On climate, the U.S. and the rest of the planet are now in “completely separate worlds.”

The consequences of climate change aren't years or even decades away. They're here now. And everyone alive today will face that reality, whether we want to or not.

Climate science deniers are flooding social media with false claims during extreme weather events, drowning out reliable information and putting lives at risk. A new report by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), which researches and campaigns against online hatred and disinformation, finds that anti-climate figures are increasingly spreading false information about wildfires and hurricanes […]

Column: The Keeling Curve, measured there, is irrefutable evidence of increasing CO2 emissions

A Leonard Leo–funded effort to destroy ESG has scared off much of corporate America.