Climate Crisis
Matt Huber – The Class Divide Haunting Climate Politics
Workers are favourable to pro-climate policies that speak directly to their everyday material concerns. In Jacobin. Read the article HERE.
Climate Politics
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Harrison Stetler – Why Environmentalists Are Still Losing
‘Dissatisfaction at established green parties and environmental NGOs has fed the rise of more confrontational forms of activism. The task can’t just be to raise awareness but to mobilize millions of people in fighting for […]
Climate Crisis
Enzo Rossi – Growing Pains: Climate Change and the Socialist Transformation
The debate between those who advocate degrowth and those who advocate eco-modernism on the international left has often been unnecessarily polemical, and both sides have failed to offer a compelling vision to the public. Enzo […]
Climate Crisis
Shannon Gibson – Where climate activism is heading next
Disruptive and sometimes unpopular tactics can contribute to a ‘radical-flank effect’ in climate politics. Shannon Gibson is Associate Professor of International Relations and Environmental Studies at the USC Dornsife College of Letters. USC graduate student […]
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AP News: UK leader Rishi Sunak delays ban on new gas and diesel cars by 5 years in contentious climate shift
As Yanis Varoufakis points out “Sunak’s U-turn is a reflection of the total Europe-wide collapse of the market-based, neoliberal consensus on how to tackle the climate crisis. It marks the centre‐right’s new path. And with […]
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Julieta Perucca – Green housing threatens affordability. But it doesn’t have to.
Attempt to reduce carbon emissions from housing risk running into multiple ‘Yellow Vest’ moments unless housing is made a social good, not a for-profit asset. Julieta Perucca is an experienced human rights advocate, previously working […]