Climate Justice

Biden: Now YOU Need to Follow Climate Science

Jeff Cohen, Common Dreams, November 17, 2020

Joe Biden at an October 2020 Town Hall on ABC

One of the keys to Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump was his constant and accurate accusation that Trump “refuses to follow the science” on COVID-19—that “he won't listen to the scientists.”

Introducing: "Is the 'Great Unraveling' Upon Us?"

Asher Miller, Post Carbon Institute, October 30, 2020

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 environmental and societal challenges, culminating with a powerful discussion on what these converging and accelerating crises mean, and how we can respond.

Earth Day to May Day: Shifting the Paradigm

Team, System Change Not Climate Change, April 22, 2020

We encourage you to participate in Earth Day events/actions -- and to share this info with relatives, friends, neighbors, youth, parents, grandparents, etc.

A Green Stimulus to Rebuild Our Economy: An Open Letter and Call to Action to Members of Congress

Joanna Bozuwa, J Mijin Cha, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Billy Fleming, Jim Goodwin, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Daniel M Kammen, Julian Brave NoiseCat, Mark Paul, Raj Patel, Thea Riofrancos, Medium, March 24, 2020

Planet to Win: An Interview with Thea Riofrancos and Daniel Aldana Cohen

Daniel Denver, The Dig, January 15, 2020

Daniel Denver of The Dig interviews Thea Riofrancos and Daniel Aldana Cohen, co-authors with Kate Aronoff and Alyssa Battistoni of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal.

San Francisco Climate Strike Street Murals Take Over Wall Street West

David Solnit & Julie Searle, Common Dreams, September 28, 2019

A Real Extinction Rebellion Means the End of Colonialism, Imperialism, and Capitalism

Jessica Garraway, Common Dreams, September 25, 2019

**By Jessica Garraway - Common Dreams, September 22, 2019**

Land and Water Defender Beginnings

Max Ajl, Uneven Earth, June 15, 2019

Drone meets cow - Mauricio Lima (CC BY 2.0)

On the future of farming, socialist science, and utopia

Debates about the Green New Deal—Ocasio-Cortez’s version and occasionally radical varieties such as that of the US Green Party—have incited much discussion about paths to utopia. Central to these conversations is the labour question: who will do the work of making the world, and how will that work be apportioned? And how much will the US Way of Life © have to change?

"All eyes of the world are on Juliana" - Tune in Tuesday

Editors, SCNCC, June 3, 2019

On Tuesday, June 4, at 2 p.m. Pacific Time, three judges of the Ninth Circuit will hear arguments by the Trump Administration seeking to stop the Juliana v. United States lawsuit brought by a group of young people claiming a constitutional right to "a climate system capable of sustaining human life" and asserting that the United States government is violating that right.

Making the Green New Deal Real

Dianne Feeley, Solidarity, April 25, 2019

THE GREEN NEW Deal resolution introduced into Congress by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey is a manifesto that has changed the terms of the debate over the country’s future. Cutting through the Trump administration’s denials about who is responsible for the extreme weather we already face, it unites the issues of climate change with that of eroding workers’ rights, racism and growing inequality. (At the end of March, the Senate voted against the GND in what has been called a ceremonial stunt.)