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“Workers of the Earth: Labour, Ecology, and Reproduction in the Age of Climate Change”: An Interview with Stefania Barca
“Workers of the Earth: Labour, Ecology, and Reproduction in the Age of Climate Change”: An Interview with Stefania Barca

“Climate politics need cross-sectoral and international alliances between industrial and metal-industrial workers.”

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featuredAndrew AhernAugust 7, 2024featuredComment
The Clean Energy Transition Is Not Inevitable
The Clean Energy Transition Is Not Inevitable

And what that means we have to do next.

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featuredTom PikeJune 23, 2024featured Comments
Repair the Rift: A Review of “Slow Down”
Repair the Rift: A Review of “Slow Down”

In a world where capitalism and green growth are often touted as the only options, Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto is a glimmer of hope shining through otherwise dark times.

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featuredAndrew AhernJanuary 17, 2024featured Comment
A Just and Rapid Transition for the Auto Industry
A Just and Rapid Transition for the Auto Industry

Historic auto contracts could build momentum for climate justice—if my union, the UAW, embraces ambitious clean car standards.

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Jesse StreckerNovember 21, 2023featured, labor, unions, law, strategyComment
How to Blow Up a Pipeline: A Review and Interview with the Creators
How to Blow Up a Pipeline: A Review and Interview with the Creators

The creators of the film How to Blow Up a Pipeline want climate activists to wrestle with questions about collective action, pessimism, tactics, and what to do next.

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featuredOlly HaynesJuly 25, 2023featuredComment
What the Climate Movement Can Learn from the Most Successful Civil Rights Organization
What the Climate Movement Can Learn from the Most Successful Civil Rights Organization

To realize a just transition, we need more organizing projects that connect political goals and the economic self-determination of local communities. To do that, climate groups should learn from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee of the 1960s.

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featuredSyris ValentineApril 29, 2023featuredComment
‘Pensions, climate: same fight!’
‘Pensions, climate: same fight!’

In theory and practice, the ongoing fight against pension cuts in France is intimately connected to ecological critiques of economic growth.

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featuredBen BeitlerMarch 13, 2023featuredComment
Valuing Everything and Nothing: A Review of “The Value of a Whale”

Buller’s book will play an important role in a lineage of anti-capitalist green thought and theory, providing the evidence against green capitalism for philosophers, political scientists, and ecologists to come.

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featuredAndrew AhernNovember 14, 2022featuredComment
Then You Win: A Review of "The Future Is Degrowth" and Interview with the Authors

The new book argues that “degrowth” contains a pragmatic set of strategies and tactics that have a real chance of succeeding throughout many parts of the world.

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featuredSamuel Miller-McDonaldNovember 7, 2022featuredComment
The Value of a Swale: Reclaiming Adaptation
The Value of a Swale: Reclaiming Adaptation

Private sector-led climate adaptation is a fool’s errand—especially in the Global South. Here’s what we should do instead.

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featuredAnjana VencatesanNovember 1, 2022featuredComment
“It’s not you, it’s your car”: A Night Out with SUV Saboteurs
“It’s not you, it’s your car”: A Night Out with SUV Saboteurs

Property destruction has gained prominence among climate activists as a tactic worth considering. Bristol, UK’s “Tyre Extinguishers” are putting this tactic to the test, aiming to make it no longer socially and financially feasible to own a gas guzzling SUV.

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featuredOlly HaynesSeptember 9, 2022featuredComment
The Role of Grassroots Action in An Era of Backroom Deals
The Role of Grassroots Action in An Era of Backroom Deals

Political elites want us to feel the Inflation Reduction Act has saved the day. While the bill will seemingly reduce emissions, it is still far from the radical transformation we need. The only answer is to organize.

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Tom PikeAugust 15, 2022featuredComment
Environmentalists Need Unions, Unions Need Environmentalists: A Review of “Climate Change as Class War”
Environmentalists Need Unions, Unions Need Environmentalists: A Review of “Climate Change as Class War”

Climate Change as Class War is a good argument for the climate movement to center production and class dynamics, but author Matt Huber’s strategy analysis is often overshadowed by his poor framing and contempt for some groups. “Going to war” with your colleagues and comrades will not help us solve climate change.

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Andrew AhernJune 7, 2022featured Comment
Let the Subaltern Speak: Why Climate Assemblies Might Breathe Life into Indian Climate Politics
Let the Subaltern Speak: Why Climate Assemblies Might Breathe Life into Indian Climate Politics

New participatory institutions would make lived realities more difficult for political elites to ignore.

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Aditya Valiathan PillaiMay 3, 2022featured Comment
All Politics Are Municipal: A Review of “From Urbanization to Cities”
All Politics Are Municipal: A Review of “From Urbanization to Cities”

Green New Deal advocates are wise to target federal investment on the climate crisis. But a municipal focus has its own much needed place, centering renewed citizenship, direct democracy, and ecological values. Murray Bookchin can help us create more democratic, ecological societies in the local places where we live, work, and play.

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Andrew AhernMarch 29, 2022featuredComment
Para Salvar los Bosques Tropicales, Es Necesario Brindar Atención Médica, Educación y Servicios a Quienes los Protegen
Para Salvar los Bosques Tropicales, Es Necesario Brindar Atención Médica, Educación y Servicios a Quienes los Protegen

La promesa de Glasgow de $ 20 mil millones de dólares para los bosques tropicales y los pueblos indígenas se queda peligrosamente corta.

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Ashwin RavikumarJanuary 18, 2022Comment
To Save the Rainforests, Provide Healthcare, Education and Services for Those Who Protect Them
To Save the Rainforests, Provide Healthcare, Education and Services for Those Who Protect Them

The $20 billion dollar Glasgow pledge for tropical forests and Indigenous people falls dangerously short.

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Ashwin RavikumarJanuary 18, 2022featuredComment
A Preindustrial Idea That Could Help Decarbonize America
A Preindustrial Idea That Could Help Decarbonize America

Sharing the profits from green energy projects with local residents can overcome the grassroots resistance facing renewable infrastructure.

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Tom PikeJanuary 11, 2022featured Comment
It’s Time to Challenge Animal Agriculture—Without the “Go Vegan” Campaigns
It’s Time to Challenge Animal Agriculture—Without the “Go Vegan” Campaigns

Campaigns against animal agriculture are often intellectually questionable and politically inept. The movement against fossil fuels shows us how to do better.

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Nick EngelfriedJanuary 5, 2022featured Comment
No Future Under Plutocracy

Why winning a post-growth Green New Deal requires transition to real democracy

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Aaron KarpDecember 7, 2021featuredComment
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