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Courting Disaster

Kate Aronoff ▪ September 5, 2017

The ongoing emergency of Hurricane Harvey is one that could only have been created by capitalism.

Bringing Power to the People: The Unlikely Case for Utility Populism

Kate Aronoff ▪ Summer 2017

Some 42 million Americans get their power from rural electric cooperatives. Reforming them could bring energy democracy to the Heartland—and fight climate change in the process.

It Gets Wetter

Daniel Aldana Cohen ▪ Summer 2017

Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 refuses the typical binary of climate change fiction, offering hope for a future somewhere in between victory or ruin.

Trump’s Wake-Up Call on Climate

Jedediah Purdy ▪ June 2, 2017

Ironically, Trump’s symbolic withdrawal from the largely symbolic Paris Agreement seems to be alerting the American mainstream to a very real emergency—one that long predates yesterday’s announcement.

China and the United States: Reversing Roles on Climate Change?

Robert Gottlieb and Simon Ng ▪ May 25, 2017

While Trump promises to axe the EPA and bring back coal, China’s leaders are heralding a new “ecological civilization.” But are the two countries really reversing roles on the environment?

Breaking with Capitalist Orthodoxy

Michael Jacobs and Mariana Mazzucato ▪ Spring 2017

Western capitalism has not been functioning well in recent years. But there is nothing inevitable about its collapse. A more innovative, sustainable, and inclusive economic system is necessary.

Berta Cáceres, Presente!

Michelle Chen ▪ May 5, 2017

As tens of thousands flooded Washington, D.C. for the People’s Climate March, they carried the voices of those most at risk for defending the environment: indigenous activists like Berta Cáceres, who was murdered in Honduras last year and whose true killers remain at large.

France: Seeds of a New Green Left?

Paul Cohen ▪ April 19, 2017

Amid disenchantment with mainstream politics, tensions between Socialists and Greens, and a string of disappointments from outgoing president François Hollande, activists known as zadistes have taken the defense of the environment into their own hands—and met formidable police repression.