Passage of the Inflation Reduction Act was met with accolades. Mainstream environmentalists declared it a “game changer” and a “seismic shift.” But are we actually on track to avert climate catastrophe? How much money is being spent, and where is it...
As governments fail to respond appropriately to the ever-more-chaotic consequences of climate change, activists are taking to ever-more radical actions. Perhaps these are the better response than following "protocol."
Seymour, Richard. The Disenchanted Earth: Reflections on Ecosocialism & Barbarism. London: The Indigo Press, 2022 As various strands of ecosocialist thought coalesce into a coherent whole, author Richard Seymour’s latest book is a unique...
Even as more people demand climate protection laws, legislators in Big Sky Country (and every other state) are partnering with the rapacious fossil-fuel industry to squelch all safeguards. One thing we have learned about fossil capital: It isn’t...
CNN has joined the media chorus decrying the “death of San Francisco” with a one-hour special (Whole Story, 5/14/23). On an episode hosted by Sara Sidner, the network declared that “the city by the bay is now at the forefront of the...
A new book highlights the lengthy efforts to halt capitalism's destruction of the natural world and restore ecological treasures in an archipelago off California's coast.
Kohei Saito’s recent books have sold more than 500,000 copies in Japan. They, and this latest, draw heavily on Marx’s unpublished letters and notebooks as well as his published works.
It’s yet another false techno-“solution,” and like so many others NOT a viable alternative to our fossil fuel-dependent energy infrastructure. In a dramatic scientific and engineering breakthrough, researchers at the Bay Area’s Lawrence Livermore...
“Anything we can actually do, we can afford.” — John Maynard Keynes How to create the political backing for the international effort necessary to achieve a fair and rapid global climate transition, even though that support would be...
Inflation has been rising since mid-2020, with the level of average prices going up at a faster rate than it has since the early 1980s. In January 2022 prices had increased by 7.5 percent compared to prices in January 2021. It now looks like the U.S...
