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Georgia Swamp Defenders Call for Public Support Against Mining Operation
Gerod Ford inherited his love of swampland from his grandmother, who grew up visiting Florida’s wetlands. She would later tell her grandchildren that “the symbiosis of the swamp is what we strive for...
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How Climate Fiction Reflects Reality
A comparative review of the climate fiction books “The Ministry for the Future” by Kim Stanley Robinson and “The Deluge”, by Stephen Markley. Sci-fi is never really about the future. It’s about the...
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AOC, Sanders Renew Fight for Green New Deal for Public Housing
Backed by dozens of progressive groups and congressional Democrats, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday reintroduced legislation designed to tackle both the...
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The Global Laws That Help Corporations Block Climate Action
However much the British government plays fast and loose with our future by treating climate change as a political football, there is a reality it can’t deny: climate action is necessary. That’s why,...
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Why is America Letting the Oil Industry Destroy the Planet?
The men who made the intentional decision to murder my father are long dead; the men and women who today are plotting to render much of our beautiful planet uninhabitable are very much with us… When my...
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Working-Class Environmentalism and Climate Justice: The Challenge of...
On 9 July 2021, Melrose Industries announced the closure of its GKN Driveline (ex-FIAT) factory of car axles in Campi di Bisenzio, Florence, and the layoff of its workers (more than 400). While in many...
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The Next Few Years Will Decide What Kind of Future We Leave for My Grandchild
Asa Caleb Crane was born over the weekend; he came into the world with a full head of hair, and on first impression an undeniable charisma, a full array of important moral virtues, and a calm but...
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The Reality of the Green Transition
What is the ecological impact of the energy transition? We don’t yet know. But the initial outlook is bleak enough to inspire a growing number of transition sceptics who warn plundering the planet to...
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Youth and Elders Together: Strategically Key?
In my first couple of years of progressive activism in the late 60’s, many of those I worked with who were also young took a pretty dismissive view of elder activists. And it wasn’t just elders. “Don’t...
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Climate Movement Elders Revive Monkey Wrench Tactics To Save An Old Forest
Earlier this year, seven activists entered the site of a proposed timber sale in Washington State, intent on halting — or at least delaying — the destruction of trees with immense carbon storage...
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Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Concentrations Hit New Record Levels
The three most critical heat-trapping gases in Earth’s atmosphere again reached record levels last year, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Friday, underscoring the...
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The Assertion of Popular Power: A Climate Movement Imperative
In part 2, historian and geographer Jason W. Moore explains why climate and revolutionary struggles must understand capitalist dynamics and deploy a language of universal class solidarity to overthrow...
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Capitalocene: How Capitalism Created the Climate Crisis
The current climate crisis emerged out of a specific set of historical and economic factors which have maintained capitalist accumulation and class inequalities to this day. Jason W. Moore, geographer...
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Big Oil Ignores Millions of Climate Deaths When Billions in Profit Are at Stake
Human activity in a profit-driven world divided by nation-states and those who have rights and those who don’t is the primary driver of climate change. Burning fossil fuels and destroying forests have...
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The Green New Deal: From Below or from Above?
The original Green New Deal resolution took as its models not only the original New Deal but also the home front mobilization for World War II. A fully developed Green New Deal will need both the kind...
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Are EVs Truly the Greenest Form of Transportation?
A friend recently told me of a new study showing that the “life cycle” of electric vehicles (EVs) causes fewer CO2 emissions than gas-powered cars. This is important since research comparing greenhouse...
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War Sustains Climate Change
If humanity was obliged to wreck the planet and accelerate climate change, it would invent war. Since every aspect of military activity is by definition destructive, it is never harmless, especially at...
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Republicans Have Plans for Working People
Recently, you may have noticed that the hot weather is getting ever hotter. Every year the United States swelters under warmer temperatures and longer periods of sustained heat. In fact, each of the...
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There Is Only One Spaceship Earth
When I was in the U.S. military, I learned a saying (often wrongly attributed to the Greek philosopher Plato) that only the dead have seen the end of war. Its persistence through history to this very...
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Bus Drivers Strike with Climate Activists in 57 German Cities
Public transit workers across Germany have broken new ground by coordinating our contracts—nearly all of them nationwide have expired over the last four months—and shutting down bus systems with...
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