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...
A Review of Ashley Dawson, People’s Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons (OR Books, 2020) I don’t mind admitting, when my wife and I purchased a solar array two years ago, I basked a bit in my climate virtue. True enough, the tax incentives were a...
With California and Oregon on fire as Climate Week opened in New York on September 21 “climate arsonist” Donald Trump took to the virtual floor of the UN General Assembly and slammed China for its environmental record while ignoring his own efforts...
System Change Not Climate Change readers and viewers will want to take a look at the interviews referenced here from PCI. Introducing “The Great Unraveling?”, a series of interviews with some of the world’s foremost experts on a broad range of...
In last week’s vice presidential debate between Sen. Kamala Harris and Vice President Mike Pence, Harris reiterated Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s rejection of a fracking ban, despite her earlier call for one when she was a presidential candidate...
Appalachia’s main industry is dying and some workers are looking to a new economic promise after Trump’s proves empty Set in a wooded valley between the Tug Fork river and the Mate creek, Matewan, West Virginia was the site of the 1920...
It is a pleasure to close today’s conference which has shown once again that it is our Party that is coming up with big ideas. And we’re not talking about ideas and policies dreamed up by corporate lobbyists and think tanks or the wonks of...
First published at ETC. Translated by Sam Carlshamre. Andreas Malm sits in his office in his apartment in Malmö. He is looking uncomfortable. The question I asked — if he is active in any political organisation — seems to have...
Our best hope now is an immediate return to the flow. CO2 emissions have to be brought close to zero: some sources of energy that do not produce any emissions bathe the Earth in an untapped glow. The sun strikes the planet with more energy in a...
The global economy is facing numerous structural challenges. With the looming fourth economic revolution characterised by even more technological development and mechanisation, the future of productive labour is bleak. Most unskilled and semi...
