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Posts tagged: climate-change

  • A People's Climate Plan for NYC?

    A People's Climate Plan for NYC?

    For an urban "Green New Deal" to be truly transformative, it must be driven by popular participation and the imperatives of climate justice, eco-socialism, and decolonization.

  • By Any Means Necessary

    By Any Means Necessary

    We need a comprehensive vision of ecological reconstruction — and that means having geoengineering as part of our vision.

  • This is a Crisis

    This is a Crisis

    The scale of the impending climate crisis is now apparent to more or less everyone. Yet, whilst it's been the left that has taken the lead in reponding to climate change for several generations, it is increasingly the far-right who are developing political responses to catastrophe. This has been reflected in the growing eco-fascist movement, a movement who were parachuted to global prominence on the 15th March this year when one of their number murdered fifty people in two Christchurch mosques. In this article, Eleanor Penny analyses eco-fascism and asks what it will take the left to deal with the scale of the climate crisis.

  • Rudolf Diesel’s failed utopia

    Rudolf Diesel’s failed utopia

    The German engineer invented the engine that would bear his name to contribute to the development of agriculture. The success of this technology has made it the fuel of economic globalization, with peak oil and tens of thousands of premature deaths.

  • Capitalism's Organic Crisis

    Capitalism's Organic Crisis

    Contemporary capitalism is faced with an organic crisis in the fullest possible sense of the term, one that encompasses not just the political and economic contradictions Gramsci described but also the biological terrain upon which social life ultimately depends.

  • Building a “Green New Deal”: Lessons From the Original New Deal

    Building a “Green New Deal”: Lessons From the Original New Deal

    Demands centering on the need for a "Green New Deal", focused on the creation of a public works “green jobs” infrastructure policy, have helped energise the American left in recent weeks. In this article Matt Huber offers four vital lessons from the original New Deal that contemporary activists and policymakers must learn.

  • Harold Vázquez Ley, Avistamiento #7, 2010, “Tutorial” series. Oil on canvas.

    Havana Under Water

    The sea has long been a defining feature, indeed an inevitability in Cuban art, literature, and life. Now it turns ominous.

  • Strip mined land being recontoured by coal companies, Morristown, Ohio, 1974. Photo: Erik Calonius. via Wikimedia Commons.

    In Defence of Metabolic Rift Theory

    One Marxist line of inquiry into environmental problems has outshone all others in creativity and productivity: the theory of the metabolic rift.