France’s Citizens’ climate body explained
Land as a social relationship
The land has always been here and Indigenous Peoples have always been reclaiming parts of it. So Canada’s challenge is how to keep us off of it, and how to keep us from holding onto the idea that it’s right for us to reclaim it.
Ecosocialism: The Strategic Debate - The Bullet
People’s Agreement of Cochabamba
World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth April 22nd, Cochabamba, Bolivia PEOPLE’S AGREEMENT Today, our Mother Earth is wounded and the future of humanity is …
Only Class War Can Stop Climate Change
A new report shows that the world’s top 1 percent is responsible for double the emissions of the entire bottom half of the planet. The message is clear: to fight climate change, we have to fight the ruling class.
Fighting for the air we breathe
Jessica Hansen-Weaver examines the larger implications of the recent surge of wildfires across the west coast.
For an Egalitarian, Cooperative Road to an Ecosocialist Future - The Bullet
This important Ecosocialist Manifesto, published by the Green Left emerges out of Australia in preparation for the forthcoming conference, Ecosocialism
Privatizing the Common Good: The 21st-Century Enclosures Are Here
Fossil capital has been granted immense power, producing life-giving heat and light but also plunging communities into darkness when they fail to return outsize profits. In 2011, DTE Energy, the in…
Revolution or Ruin
Jodi Dean and Kai Heron propose a Climate Lenin approach to dealing with the climate crisis, advocating for a revolutionary party.
Ecological and Social Planning and Transition - The Bullet
The need for economic planning in any serious and radical process of socio-ecological transition is winning greater acceptance, in contrast to the
After Carbon Democracy
The Green New Deal is a wager that more democracy, rather than less, is the way to tackle climate change.
The Robbery of Nature: Capitalism and the Ecological Rift
Forthcoming in February 2020 In the nineteenth century, Karl Marx, inspired by the German chemist Justus von Liebig, argued that capitalism’s relation to its natural environment was that of a robbery…
Can We Have Prosperity Without Growth?
The critique of economic growth, once a fringe position, is gaining widespread attention in the face of the climate crisis.
Socialism, capitalism and the transition away from fossil fuels
Decarbonising the economy will be impossible unless we transform our economic and social systems. This means looking to a world beyond capitalism.
Fairy Tales About Climate Change
As Guy Routh explained forty years ago in his magisterial book, The Origin of Economic Ideas, economics has preposterous origins. Since the time of Adam Smith, the new academic discipline was linked through the emerging class of merchants and manufacturers to the rich and powerful in general, and fulfilled the ideological role of presenting the emerging capitalist system as the best of all possible worlds.
Climate Change Could Cause the Next Financial Meltdown
The E.C.B., which meets Thursday, is among central banks trying to prepare for what a report warns could be a coming economic upheaval.
Cuba found to be the most sustainably developed country in the world,
Opinion: The climate crisis is like a world war. So let’s talk about rationing
It’s time for mandatory cutbacks on the kinds of consumption that threaten all of us
Cap and Adapt: A Failsafe Approach to the Climate Emergency
Cap and Adapt's adaptive features provide fairness that helps defend against challenges to its cap. This is the best that climate policy can do.
Climate Change Is Class Struggle
To build the power to take on climate change, we can’t simply validate individual movements or assume single-issue struggles will add up to something greater than the sum of their parts. We need class politics to connect the dots of our many struggles — and to save the planet.
Monthly Review | Capitalism and Robbery
Historical capitalism cannot be understood aside from its existence as a colonial/imperialist world system in which the violent exercise of power is an ever-present reality. In order to uncover the…
November readings
The dark side of the Nordic model
Scandinavian countries may top every ranking on human development, but they are a disaster for the environment.
The Limits of Clean Energy
If the world isn’t careful, renewable energy could become as destructive as fossil fuels.
Defending limits is not Malthusian
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Monthly Review | On Fire This Time
We are seeing today what appear to be the beginnings of an ecological revolution, a new historical moment unlike any humanity has experienced. Not only is the planet burning…
A Low-Carbon Economy Will Be Built By Nannies, Caregivers and House Cleaners
Working In These Times is dedicated to providing independent and incisive coverage of the labor movement and struggles for workers' rights.
We Need A Fair Way To End Infinite Growth
The left should embrace de-growth, but it’s the rich that need to sacrifice…
The Path to Climate Justice Runs Through the UAW Strike
During Climate Week, why not show we can have economic and environmental justice?
Beyond visions and projects: the need for a debate on strategy in the degrowth movement