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Economic insecurity produces insatiable demands on nature. This is the point where environmentalist and egalitarian projects meet.
Winter 2024
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Climate Change on Trial
We can’t just sue our way to climate justice, but litigation is one tool that activists can use to sway public opinion and hold those in power to account.
Booked: What Is the Anthropocene?
Jedediah Purdy explains why there is no more “nature” independent of human activity—and what that means for our politics.
The Climate Hackers
Proponents of geoengineering imagine that technology can operate in a political void. It’s a dangerous illusion.
Beyond the Petrostate: Ecuador’s Left Dilemma
In Ecuador, to oppose resource extraction is to be an enemy of the state.
Growth vs. the Climate
It would be nice to hear it straight for once. Stopping climate change means giving up on growth.
Taking Back the Grid
Three years after Boulder citizens voted to de-privatize their electricity and create a public utility, the city’s effort remains stalled. Can the municipalization experiment still succeed—and provide a model for other U.S. cities seeking to go green?
The Eco-Optimists
An optimistic environmentalist may sound like an oxymoron (or perhaps just a moron). Yet a growing number of greens are putting a positive spin on our planetary emergency. Should more of us start thinking like them?
Striking for Climate Justice
When unionized oil workers at the Tesoro Golden Eagle plant in Martinez, California walked off the job on February 1 to demand safer working conditions, they received some unexpected company on the picket line. Since the beginning of the strike, …
Harvard’s Climate Wake-Up Call
On Thursday, February 12, I walked into Massachusetts Hall with thirty-three other Divest Harvard members and began a twenty-four-hour sit-in outside Harvard President Drew Faust’s office. Amidst the intensity, chaos, stress, and excitement of those hours, I learned an enduring …
Is Climate Change Big or Small?
Buzz by Benjamin Kunkel Directed by Lian Walden Gemini & Scorpio Loft, Brooklyn, NY Bodies in mock hazmat suits unpack a faux Gowanus loft apartment in which everything is white, while you sit on a brown couch chatting with a …
The Climate Movement Has Arrived
This post originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. Less than two weeks have passed and yet it isn’t too early to say it: the People’s Climate March changed the social map—many maps, in fact, since hundreds of smaller marches took place in 162 …
Why I Got Arrested at #FloodWallStreet
The People’s Climate March represented a tremendous step forward for the climate movement—but something more was needed.
Belabored Podcast #61: When Climate and Labor Converge (Live!), with Nastaran Mohit and Lara Skinner
Is real economic and environmental sustainability still achievable? How do you tackle capitalism and climate change simultaneously? Belabored, in its first ever live recording, asks Nastaran Mohit, Lara Skinner, and guests.
A Generation’s Call: Voices from the Student Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement
On the heels of last weekend’s Fossil Fuel Divestment Convergence, we hear from two students active in campus and national divestment efforts. Chloe Maxmin sketches the contours of a rapidly growing movement and examines the case of Harvard. Kate Aronoff argues that students must situate themselves carefully within social movement strategy if they are to effectively leverage the power of their institutions.
