To respond to the climate emergency, our politics must be as radical as our reality.
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On the nature and causes of environmental violence
"We need a much broader definition of violence than is allowed for by limiting its meaning to a physical and immediate brutal act of aggression, and one that includes an environmental dimension. "
Ecosocialist panel on climate change strategies
Video of talks and discussion at a public forum on "Strategies to Stop Climate Change" hosted by the Vancouver Ecosocialist Group, in Vancouver, BC, on December 3
Yuen and Angus debate ‘environmental catastrophism’
Replying to a critique in Monthly Review, Eddie Yuen says Ian Angus "misses my central problematic of politicization." Angus says Yuen's response displays "the most debilitating of common leftist neuroses."
Breaking news! Lower income = lower consumption
Hold the presses! Economists make shocking discovery!
BRICS lessons in (un)sustainable urbanization
Patrick Bond says the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) economies are increasingly polluted and deadly. Much more damage will be done, and multifaceted resistance must likewise strengthen.
Socialists debate nuclear, 4: A green syndicalist view
Continuing our discussion of nuclear energy, Steve Ongerth of the IWW says it's no coincidence that many of the same forces that are fighting to deny climate change and hold back renewables are also pushing nuclear power.
Socialists debate nuclear, 3: Unsafe, unaffordable, unnecessary
Continuing our discussion on atomic energy. Chris Williams says nuclear is no solution to global warming — it's dangerous, expensive, and can't be deployed quickly enough.
UN climate talks go nowhere, again
At the climate talks in Warsaw, rich countries stalled, poor countries walked out, and climate justice activists chanted 'The Philippines, Pakistan, New Orleans: Change the System, Not the Climate.'
Can reforms stop climate change?
Monthly Review replies to Christian Parenti: Realistic climate politics are not reformist politics. Immediate reforms are needed, but there will be no real solution without truly revolutionary social change.