SCNCC Perspective

Ecosocialist Alliance Issues Statement on G7 Conference

Ecosocialist Alliance, SCNCC, June 5, 2021

Today, System Change Not Climate Change and ten other organizations issued the following statement setting forth demands for action by the G7 nations at their annual meeting that will take place June 11-13 in Cornwall, England: The Ecosocialist Alliance was initiated by Green Left and Left Unity in the UK to call for ecosocialist solutions to global inequality and the ecological crisis, in the run up to COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland in November. It has grown rapidly with support from other UK groups and Ireland, Canada, and the USA.

How the PRO Act Will Change U.S. Labor Law

Ted Franklin, System Change Not Climate Change, April 23, 2021

With the news that West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin will co-sponsor the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, Labor and its allies are beginning to get a gleam in their eyes. Labor activists see the PRO Act as the key to building back a powerful labor movement.

Structures of Fossil Feeling: Ashley Dawson's People's Power

Dave Jones, New Politics, February 1, 2021

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 factor. And the idea of being self-sufficient through some looming, dystopian collapse was vaguely reassuring. But I must also admit I had not considered the resources and energy, the extraction and exploitation, that made my shiny, virtuous “clean energy” possible.

Ecosocialist Solstice Live Artists Showcase Sunday 20 December

System Change Not Climate Change, Facebook Live, December 19, 2020

SCNCC is thrilled to be hosting our first Ecosocialist Solstice Artivists Showcase, in which we will feature and celebrate the visual, escritorial, and performing arts, and the artists and writers who create them.

Register for the event, which will be done live via Zoom starting at 4:00 p.m. ET, 2:00 p.m. CT, 3:00 p.m. MT, 4:00 p.m. ET (all US/Canada) on Sunday, December 20.

Artists who'll be joining us:

Climate Arsonist Xi Jinping: A Carbon-Neutral Economy with a 6% Growth Rate?

Richard Smith, System Change Not Climate Change, November 22, 2020

China's President Xi Jinping inspects the Three Gorges Dam

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 to save the coal industry and boost fossil fuel consumption – actions that earned him that sobriquet from Joe Biden.[1]

Endorsing Biden Undercuts the Left

Carol Dansereau, System Change Not Climate Change, September 25, 2020

We need to build a strike-capable mass movement that unites diverse groups behind powerful demands for system change. This is the only way to reverse course on climate destruction and intertwined crises. There is no time to waste.

This means we need to:

Devote time, energy and money to building that movement, and
Think through how our actions shape people’s understandings and their willingness to join such a movement.

On both these fronts, urging people to vote for Joe Biden and the Democrats undermines the work we need to be doing.

For the Children, the Bunnies, the Redwoods, the POC, the Women

Maura Stephens, System Change Not Climate Change, September 12, 2020

Silhouette of a child up peering through a fence at the U.S. border

Voting for Biden won’t save them. Not voting for Biden will doom them.

You couldn’t have paid me to vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2016; I’d voted for all prior Green Party candidates over the dreadful Democratic Party choices — except for the year I voted for Barack Obama, in the vain hope that he had a hidden true progressive self behind the Wall Street-cozy veneer. Live and learn.

“Social Cost of Carbon”: What Price Existence?

Dave Jones, System Change Not Climate Change, September 12, 2020

Credit: Photo illustration by Laura Darling

One strategy for lowering CO2 emissions, favored by many environmental organizations and currently implemented in several states, is to formally impose a “social cost of carbon,” or SCC, at the point of production. Proponents claim that this would begin to ensure that previously “externalized costs” are accounted for in pricing mechanisms.

Trump or Biden? Duh! We’re picking our battleground, not our leader

Ted Franklin, System Change Not Climate Change, September 4, 2020

Joe Biden’s political resume is a catalog of reasons we on the Left condemn the Democratic Party as one of the “two right wings” of the single party of capital.

We Need a Green New Deal to Confront the Economic Crash and Climate Crisis

Ted Franklin, Truthout, June 15, 2020

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Voting for Biden won’t save them. Not voting for Biden will doom them.

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