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Here’s Why You Can’t Afford an Electric Car
It seems that there has never been a better time than now to buy an electric vehicle in the United States, especially if you read news headlines and White House press releases. You might be forgiven...
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The Invasion of Gaza’s Resources Begins: Jared Kushner, the EU, Egypt & US
Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son in law who previously tried to steal land in the Middle East from Arabs has said that Israel should empty the Gaza strip of civilians. He said that “Gaza’s waterfront...
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The Law is Criminalising Activists Because It Can’t Criminalise Violence
The British State this week overthrew a key legal defence protecting climate activists. The belief in consent defence has seen juries acquitting activists in criminal damage cases, much to the fury of...
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The Climate Crisis Calls for Wisdom—Not Artificial Intelligence
We’re getting right to the nub now. This week the World Meteorological Organization officially certified 2023 as the hottest year in human history. Just to put on the record here what should have been...
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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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Of Life and Lithium
With his perfect tan and slicked-back hair, California Governor Gavin Newsom stood at a podium at Sacramento’s Cal Expo in late September 2020 and announced an executive order requiring all new...
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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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International Court Issues First-Ever Decision Enforcing the Right to a...
Residents of La Oroya, Peru, known as one of the most polluted cities on Earth, have won a landmark victory from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which ruled last week that Peru was...
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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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