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.

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 …

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.

Jessica Hansen-Weaver examines the larger implications of the recent surge of wildfires across the west coast.

This important Ecosocialist Manifesto, published by the Green Left emerges out of Australia in preparation for the forthcoming conference, Ecosocialism

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…

Jodi Dean and Kai Heron propose a Climate Lenin approach to dealing with the climate crisis, advocating for a revolutionary party.

The need for economic planning in any serious and radical process of socio-ecological transition is winning greater acceptance, in contrast to the

The Green New Deal is a wager that more democracy, rather than less, is the way to tackle climate change.

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…

The critique of economic growth, once a fringe position, is gaining widespread attention in the face of the climate crisis.

Decarbonising the economy will be impossible unless we transform our economic and social systems. This means looking to a world beyond capitalism.

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.

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.

It’s time for mandatory cutbacks on the kinds of consumption that threaten all of us

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.

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.

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…

Scandinavian countries may top every ranking on human development, but they are a disaster for the environment.

If the world isn’t careful, renewable energy could become as destructive as fossil fuels.

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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…

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The left should embrace de-growth, but it’s the rich that need to sacrifice…

During Climate Week, why not show we can have economic and environmental justice?