Pollute More and Get Paid
California is giving free emission permits, allowing big polluters to pollute more and reducing the money available for transit, housing, and other programs.
Bay Area Air Quality Hearings – Who Talks? And Who Is Really Listening?
The following is a report-back from a Bay Area resident, regarding their experience attending a hearing on a proposed ban on gas water heaters. May 6th started out like it was going to be a typical board meeting at the Bay Area Air Quality Management District. What is typical? Well, one Wednesday a month for […]
Unprecedented March Heat Wave Shatters Temperature Records in the Bay Area
A record-breaking heat wave swept across the Bay Area in March, shattering century-old temperature records. In San Francisco and Oakland, temperatures reached 90 and 88 degrees respectively, breaking previous records set in 1874 and 1970. In total, over a dozen cities saw their hottest March days on record. Meteorologists were stunned, with one noting, “We’ve never issued a heat advisory in […]
Iranian Oil Fields Bombed – The Devastating Health and Environmental Toll of War
In the aftermath of the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iranian oil deposits two weekends ago, black rain fell over parts of Iran. Iranians also reported having headaches and witnessing what some called “acid rain” falling on buildings and cars. Inhaling particles from the smoke created from the oil field bombing could be extremely toxic, especially for people with […]
Trump Administration Gives a Green Light to Poisoning the World Faster
On February 12, President Trump and Lee Zeldin, the head of his Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), announced that the agency would no longer recognize the “endangerment rule,” a 2010 EPA decision that climate change is a danger to both human health and the environment. This announcement flies in the face of decades of agreement by […]
Who Really Owns the Climate Crisis?
The climate crisis is caused by the corporations and politicians who profit from fossil fuel extraction.
New Record for CO2 Emissions in 2025
November 14, 2025 news brief from the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. According to the Global Carbon Project’s annual report, CO2 emissions from fossil fuels (coal, oil, and gas) will be 1.1% higher in 2025 than the previous year, reaching 38.1 billion tons. “This is more than the average annual increase […]
Hurricane Katrina Twenty Years Later: A Glimpse into Our Future
20 years ago, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, causing massive destruction, which was made worse by capitalism.
Whales Go Silent – Another Warning to Us All
Blue whales are going silent because higher ocean temperatures are killing their food.
5,000-Gallon Diesel Spill: Johns Hopkins Fails Baltimore – Again
In June 2025, Johns Hopkins Hospital allowed 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel to spill from two underground tanks into Baltimore’s storm drains and, from there, into the harbor. The spill covered wildlife like turtles and birds, and the water itself in red-dyed fuel. At first, Hopkins claimed the spill was only 200 gallons. That number […]
Video: Trump’s Assault on the Planet is an Assault on Us!
Transcript: It is impossible to ignore the impact of the climate crisis that is already upon us. From the acceleration of the mass extinction of hundreds of species, and disastrous weather events that are becoming more frequent and more destructive, to the mass displacement of tens of millions of people every year due to climate […]
Capitalism’s Effect on the Climate
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Socialism 101: The Climate Crisis — A Crisis of Capitalism
Part three of a Socialism 101 series by Speak Out Socialists
Global Temperatures Higher Than Ever
12-month average global temperatures have exceeded 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial averages in 2024. Capitalism is competely failing to prevent climate catastrophe.
Global Drying is Accelerating Under Capitalism
People and ecosystems in almost every region in the world are threatened by rising aridification, according to a recent report from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification. Aridification is different from droughts: droughts can be severely damaging to a region, but they eventually end. Aridification, on the other hand, is permanent. In the last […]
Mayotte: Natural Disaster and Social Catastrophe
A cyclone hit Mayotte, a French island colony in the Indian Ocean. French imperialism bears responsibility for the level of human suffering.
COP29 Negotiates as the Crisis Envelops Us
Negotiations at the COP29 climate conference did not even attempt to halt climate change. We cannot rely on governments and corporations to do anything about the problem.
UN Climate Change Conference Promotes Profiting Off of Catastrophe
At the UN Climate Change Conference, COP29, participants representing politicians and corporations proposed “solutions” to climate change that are just new ways to profit.
Rivers Dry Worldwide, Dems Embrace Record Oil Production!
Rivers are drying up due to climate change. In the United States, the Democrats have decided that making climate change even worse is a good idea.
Hurricane Helene Devastates North Carolina
The massive destruction from Hurricane Helene has been followed by slow government response.
Capitalism’s Crisis Smashes Path of Destruction
Capitalism-induced climate change has increased the destruction from hurricanes such as Helene.
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: September 22, 2024
Download .pdf leafletDownload .pdf leaflet (Baltimore) We Must Oppose This War on the Middle East On Tuesday, September 17, the Israeli government expanded its reign of terror across the broader Middle East in a new wave of attacks on Lebanon. Hundreds of pagers and hand-held radios simultaneously exploded on two successive days in Lebanon, wounding […]
Brazil’s Pantanal Ravaged By Fire
The Pantanal is burning; droughts and deforestation in recent years, along with climate change, have contributed to the size of the fires.
Technology Fads are Hungry for Power
Data centers are using huge amounts of electricity and producing carbon emissions.
Bird Flu: Is This the Next Pandemic?
Bird flu has the potential to become the next pandemic, and capitalism makes it more likely.
Beryl a Symptom of Global Warming
The strength of hurricane Beryl is a symptom of the global warming that is being caused by the capitalist economic system.
Baltimore: Let’s Applaud a Cleaner Inner Harbor, But Not for Profit’s Sake
Baltimore has cleaned up its harbor somewhat, but there is still more work to be done. Let’s not forget that we want clean water for us, and not as resource to be used for profit.
No Vent and Burn was Necessary in East Palestine, OH
On June 25, the National Transportation Safety Board released their latest report on the East Palestine, OH Norfolk Southern train derailment that occurred in February 2023. In their report and board meeting, they exposed that the venting and burning of five carloads full of toxic chemicals – namely vinyl chloride – was not actually needed. Norfolk Southern officials and […]
$600 Million is an Insult to East Palestine Residents!
Norfolk Southern, the rail company responsible for the massive train derailment in East Palestine in February 2023, agreed to pay $600 Million in a class-action lawsuit settlement on April 9, 2024. On the very same day, they announced their preliminary first quarter 2024 financial results: $3 Billion in revenue and nearly $1B in income (or […]
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Act is a “Climate Time Bomb”
Funding from the 2021 infrastructure bill has funded mostly highways instead of public transit, which means that it will result in more carbon emissions.
Deadly Droughts Envelop Southern Africa
Since late 2023, millions of people in southern Africa have been facing an extreme drought, disrupting multiple aspects of their everyday life, including access to food and water. Rainfall levels between late January and February of this year were the lowest in at least 40 years. And for central parts of the region, this February […]
The State of Our Planet (2023)
If there is a political arena where the hopes of reformism are wearing thin and being proven futile, it is among environmental activists. A revolutionary perspective is desperately needed in the climate movement, now more than ever.
The Plastic Industry Scam: Recycling
Plastic waste is now all around us in the form of small particles in our air, water, and food, with many unknown effects to our bodies and our ecosystems. Additionally, the production of plastics is responsible for about 3.3% of global emissions each year. Oil and gas are needed to create petrochemicals, so the fossil […]
Biden to East Palestine, Ohio: Blame Norfolk Southern, not Me!
A year after the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio that caused massive evacuations and immeasurable air and soil pollution, Joe Biden finally made an appearance to address residents of the area. Community members, who faced temporary displacement from their homes and ongoing medical problems in the wake of the toxic chemical spill have thus far […]
Bank of America Backtracks on Climate Pledges
Bank of America has backtracked on a statement that it would stop funding fossil fuel projects.
In The Face of Global Crisis, What Did Biden and China’s President Xi Accomplish?
Biden and Xi met at APEC, but their meeting was more for optics than action.
Extreme Heat is Making Sports Deadly
Extreme heat is making sports, especially football, more dangerous.
California Sues Fossil Fuel Companies
The State of California has filed a lawsuit against several fossil fuel companies for their contribution to climate change, and for promoting climate disinformation. The lawsuit against Exxon Mobil, Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, BP, and the American Petroleum Institute alleges that the defendants knew about the climate effects that fossil fuels would cause, and deliberately suppressed that information. […]
Floods in Libya – An Ecological Catastrophe on Top of A Brutal History
More than 11,000 people have been killed in floods caused by Storm Daniel in Libya. That is only an estimate, and there are fears that as many as 20,000 people might be dead. The death toll is the result of the bursting of two major dams near the city of Derna, combined with extreme rains […]
Broadside on the Climate Emergency (September 2023)
download as 11×17 .pdf Articles in this issue: We Are Facing an Environmental Catastrophe Don’t Blame Natural Disasters — Capitalism is Responsible! Climate Change — Today’s Reality Back to the Streets! The Climate Crisis: What Can We Do?
Don’t Blame Natural Disasters — Capitalism is Responsible!
The speed and severity of the disruption of the Earth’s ecosystems and the overall climate of the planet is due to human activity. This also means that we, as humans, have the ability to alter our decisions to prevent the destruction of our natural world — the only home we have. Scientists became aware of […]
We Are Facing an Environmental Catastrophe
A pink sun looming through the thick, burnt orange sky was a sight seen in nearly every corner of the U.S. over the past summer as wildfires spanned the majority of Canada, Alaska, the western U.S., and even Maui, HI. At the same time, unprecedented storms with historic rainfalls brought record-breaking flooding across North America. […]
The Climate Crisis: What Can We Do?
There are already millions around the world out in the streets demanding an end to the destruction of the environment. Faced with the environmental crisis that threatens their lives, millions of farmers, in India, Mexico, East Africa, and around the world have mobilized. And tens of millions of workers have demonstrated around the world against […]
Back to the Streets!
In 2019, millions of people flooded the streets in over 125 countries, united in our understanding that life and our natural world need to be saved from a human-enhanced catastrophe. One teenager in Sweden, Greta Thunberg, staged a school strike every Friday. Media coverage of her protest captured the imagination of people everywhere. Hundreds of […]
Climate Change — Today’s Reality
According to the United Nations Refugee Agency, there are at least 20 million people who are forced from their homes because of severe climate changes each year. The people most impacted now live in the parts of the world that have been dominated, politically and economically, by the major capitalist powers. They are often the […]
Home Insurance Companies Only Protect Themselves from the Climate Crisis
The past few years have seen a huge increase in climate disasters. Wildfires across the West Coast and in Hawaii, mass power outages due to extreme cold in Texas, temperature warnings due to extreme heat in Arizona, and hurricanes powerful enough to reach California, are all symptoms of the growing climate crisis. The costs from […]
Groundwater Depletion Threatens Food and Water Supply
A recent report by the New York Times analyzed the conditions of tens of thousands of aquifers that hold 90 percent of the groundwater used by towns, cities and states throughout the United States. It found that in the past decade, after 40 years of consistent decline, 40% of those aquifers were at all time […]
The Other Big Lie: Biden’s Climate Policy
Following his big 2020 campaign promises to protect the environment, Biden has done the opposite. And now, heading into the 2024 elections, he is once gain trying to appear as if his administration stands against climate destruction. Recently, Biden wanted to bump his ratings when he grabbed headlines for cancelling all leases approved by Trump […]
Heat Waves Freaking Out Healthcare
Hospitals have faced a surge in people needing treatment during the recent heat waves.
Fossil Fuel’s Grip on Climate Change Lobbyists
Fossil fuel lobbyists also work for climate nonprofits!