Biden and the Wealthy Ignore Latest Climate Disaster Predictions
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released their synthesis report, summarizing the research about the Earth’s entire climate system done over the past few years. The conclusions were grim. According to the report: “There is a rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a livable and sustainable future for all (very high confidence).” The […]
Floods in California: Not a “Natural” Catastrophe
The town of Pajaro, California, was flooded after its under-engineered levee broke.
Biden Gives Green Light to Putting World at Risk by Expanding Alaskan Drilling
The Biden Administration has given the green light for the oil and gas company Conoco Phillips to drill for at least 600 million barrels of crude oil out of the North Arctic region. The site of the drilling, called the Willow Project, will border communities of the indigenous Inupiat people and will be the largest […]
U.S. Government Permits Chevron to Poison People
Chevron has found a new way to poison people: making fuel from plastic.
Global Heating Threatens the Entire World
Recent climate-related disasters show that climate change threatens the whole world.
Railroad Profiteers and Government Responsible for Toxic Wreck
The train derailment and release of toxic chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio, was the result of corporate cost-cutting at the expense of safety, enabled by the government.
Refineries Dump Trillions of Gallons of Toxic Waste into Our Water Every Day
A recent report has been released, that reviewed data from the Environmental Protection Agency, and found that close to half a trillion gallons of toxic waste water spills out of oil and gas refineries, across the United States, every single day. In other words, the daily amount of toxic wastewater discharged could fill an estimated […]
Protesters Fight Back against Expanding German Coal Mines
Over 1,000 German police officers in riot gear used water cannons, batons, and brute force to remove at least 15,000 protestors from a coal mine in mid-January. This came after more than two-and-a-half years of activists working to prevent the destruction of another centuries-old village from being demolished for a coal mine. Protesters were removed and […]
Climate Change Causes Major Floods in California
In the past few week’s, storms that hit California led to torrential rains and major flooding. The storms shut down power for hundreds of thousands of people and resulted in over 20 deaths. Images of people’s cars floating down inundated streets or residents using surf boards to get from one house to another filled the […]
ExxonMobil Scientists Got It Right – 45 Years Ago!
A new report released last week in the journal Science reminded us that ExxonMobil scientists knew about the damage fossil fuels were doing to our planet and atmosphere at least as far back as 1977. From that moment on, the corporation began a well-funded campaign of outright denial that lasted until only recently. But since […]
Two Months Since COP27: World Leaders Accelerate Extinction
It’s been two months since COP27 (the latest annual United Nations meeting on climate change) ended and our world is facing so-called “freak storms” and “once in a generation weather events” one after another. Since COP27, the United States has faced the bomb cyclone Elliott with blizzard conditions killing at least 69 people and grounding […]
Biden’s Mexico-Canada Meeting — More Promises that Change Nothing
President Biden met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico on January 9 and 10 in Mexico City, reportedly to discuss economic policies, climate change, and immigration. In reality, the U.S., Mexico, Canada summit was a bunch of headline-grabbing empty promises, including big pledges to bring down […]
Keystone Pipeline Spills in Kansas …Again
TC Energy of Canada’s Keystone pipeline spilled more than 14,000 barrels of crude oil, or 588,000 gallons, into a river in Washington County, Kansas, making it one of the largest crude spills in the United States in nearly a decade. This is the biggest spill of several thousand barrels of crude on this pipeline since […]
Freedom for Alaa Abd El-Fattah, the Egyptian Militant Climate Activist!
Egyptian activist, Alaa Abd El-Fattah is a political prisoner, held by the Egyptian military regime of Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. Alaa has been an activist since 2006 when he and his wife founded an important Egyptian activist blog site. As part of the rebel generation of the Arab Spring, Abd El-Fattah took an active role in […]
We Can’t Recycle Our Way Out of the Plastic Problem
It turns out that most plastic is not actually recyclable. If we want to get rid of it, we also need to end the profit motive that causes plastic production.
The climate crisis is here, what can we actually do?
{download as b/w leaflet .pdf} A majority perspective Look around you. We are not alone! A recent poll1 shows that 72% of adults in the U.S., believe global warming is happening and threatening life as we know it; 65% believe that we should do more to address global warming. Why isn’t more being done to […]
Hurricane Disaster in Puerto Rico Again… and It’s Not Natural!
Hurricane Fiona swept through Puerto Rico and other parts of the Caribbean in the last days of summer, almost exactly five years after Hurricane Maria killed more than three thousand people on the island. Fiona was a weaker storm than Maria, but it still totally shut down Puerto Rico’s electric power grid and destroyed a […]
Climate Disruption? It’s Time for Us to Disrupt
The capitalist system is unable to take meaningful action against climate disruption.
Capitalism + Racism + Climate Crisis = Water Disaster in Jackson, Mississippi
The climate crisis is combining with institutional inequality to create more suffering for oppressed people.
Capitalist Barbarism Creates Starvation in the Horn of Africa
Capitalism is producing a food crisis in the Horn of Africa, with the combined effects of climate change and war in Ukraine disrupting supplies.
Scientists Say Sea-Level Rise is “Now Inevitable”
A recent study published in Nature Climate Change used new techniques to determine that melting of the Greenland ice sheet will contribute at minimum 27cm (about ten-and-a-half inches) of sea-level rise as 10 trillion tons of ice melt. That guaranteed minimum is twice the amount predicted by last year’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report. […]
Pakistan Flood Disaster – Who is to Blame?
The disastrous flooding in Pakistan is the fault of wealthy countries that have emitted and continue to emit large amounts of greenhouse gases.
The Yangtze River (among Others) Faces Its Greatest Drought Yet
In another sign of climate change, the Yangtze and other rivers have hit historic low levels.
Worldwide Flooding Shows the Realities of the Climate Crisis
The flood events around the world show that climate change is not just a future problem, it is affecting us right now.
Fires, Arsonists, and Us
August 16, 2022, Editorial of the Workplace Newsletters of the Etincelle fraction of the New Anticapitalist Party (NPA), translated from French. Four heat waves in three months. Since the start of the year, uncontrollable mega-fires have already caused the destruction of nearly 112,000 acres across France, and tens of thousands of people were evacuated overnight […]
Increasing Oil and Gas Production to Fight the Climate Crisis?
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has been hailed as the largest climate bill ever passed by the U.S. government. This doesn’t really mean much since neither party in the U.S. has ever taken any significant action to stop the climate crisis. When he was running for President, part of Biden’s campaign promise was to take […]
Mexico Water Shortage: A Warning to the World
Mexico is running out of water. Almost half of Mexico’s territory is currently experiencing a drought and there have been water shortages in over half of Mexico’s municipalities. In many cities and neighborhoods the taps have run dry for days at a time. In some parts of the city of Monterrey — which has been […]
Workers at UPS and Amazon Die Due to Extreme Heat and Brutal Working Conditions
Workers at UPS and Amazon have been dying of extreme heat, while the companies make profit.
Fires and Floods: Climate Change at Work
Extreme weather events like the ones we’ve seen recently will become more frequent due to climate change.
Media and Capitalists Ignore Climate Realities
This summer has been unprecedented in many ways. Much of the world has been experiencing exceptional heat, there have been wildfires incredibly large in size, and nearly every continent in the world is currently in a drought somewhere. These unprecedented environmental anomalies are not isolated incidents. They are the symptoms of a world afflicted with […]
Money for War, But Not for the Earth and the Poor?
Joe Manchin refuses to support any legislation on the climate crisis, but the rest of the Democrats aren’t much better. Meanwhile, they all support more money for the military.
Extreme Heat Shows We Can No Longer Ignore Climate Realities
Europe is experiencing an unprecedented heat wave that has already killed over 1,900 people. Temperatures across Europe are breaking records. Combined with exceptionally dry conditions, the spread of wildfires and water shortages threaten the continent. Italy is experiencing the worst drought in 70 years. Wildfires span massive areas of France, Spain, Portugal, and Croatia, forcing tens of thousands of […]
West Virginia v. EPA: Supreme Court Attacks Life on Earth, Again
Last week, in the Dobbs v. Jackson ruling, the Supreme Court ripped the fundamental human right of abortion away from millions of people throughout the United States. Yesterday, in West Virginia v. EPA, it limited the power of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to enforce the Clean Air Act. It did this by removing the […]
Climate Catastrophe Triggered by Ticking “Carbon Bombs”
Fossil fuel companies are spending billions of dollars on projects that will destroy our climate.
Drought is Drying up Lives in the Southwest!
The U.S. Southwest continues to experience drought, with adverse effects on people and ecosystems. This has been caused by the capitalist system, which continues to emit greenhouse gases for profit.
Documentary Review: The Power of Big Oil, Part One: Denial (PBS Frontline)
Just days before Earth Day, PBS Frontline released the first part of a three-part series: “The Power of Big Oil.” This eye-opening hour-and-a-half documentary, Denial, examines the intentional and malicious ways that executives of the fossil fuel industry launched denial campaigns creating distrust and doubt in the scientific evidence about human-caused climate change. These initiatives […]
Fridays For the Future, Rebirth of Climate Protests?
Young people are returning to the streets to demand action against climate change.
Biden on the Climate: Saying One Thing and Doing Another
Biden is allowing oil and gas drilling on federal land, exposing his promises to fight climate change as empty words.
Chevron Richmond: A Month-Long Strike
Workers at the Richmond Chevron refinery have been on strike for a month. Chevron has brought in less skilled replacement workers, causing instances of polluting flaring.
We Need to Make Every Day Earth Day!
A single day every year for Earth Day is not enough when the climate crisis is ongoing every day.
“The Evidence is Clear: the Time For Action is Now” – IPCC Report
The latest IPCC report makes clear that we can limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, but only if we act immediately.
Elites Use Ukraine Crisis to Advance Suicidal Climate Policies
In response to the Ukraine crisis, both Democratic and Republican politicians have argued for more fossil fuel production in the United States. They are also arguing that new transport infrastructure should be built so that fossil fuels such as liquified natural gas (LNG) from the United States can be exported to the European Union (EU). […]
War in the Time of Climate Change Will Starve Us All
Russia’s war on Ukraine has already increased global food and fertilizer prices, but the consequences of the conflict are certain to get worse. Together, Ukraine and Russia are responsible for producing about 28% of the world’s wheat. Certain countries, primarily in Africa, rely almost completely on those imports and face direct consequences of the war’s […]
Preventing Climate Catastrophe: “A Brief and Rapidly Closing Window”
The latest IPCC report highlights the urgency of climate change. We must stop the “business as usual” of burning fossil fuels for profit.
Capitalism: Financing Humanity’s Extinction
The world’s capitalist economies spend huge amounts of money financing our destruction.
The U.S. Southwest is Experiencing the Worst Megadrought in 1,200 Years
The U.S. Southwest is experiencing a megadrought, with human-caused climate change being a significant factor.
The European Union Calls Nuclear and Gas Energy “Sustainable Investments” — Really?!
The EU wants to transition to nuclear and natural gas energy sources.
The Beijing Winter Olympics Are a Political Disaster
This article was written by Jules Boycoff and originally published at jacobinmag.com on February 4, 2022. It has been republished here with permission from the author. On the cusp of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, activists are ramping up their opposition to the games. Some are opposed primarily to the decision to host the games […]
Chasing Coral: Documenting the Need for Change
Maybe you’ve heard of coral reef death or bleaching, but do you understand what coral reefs are or why this matters? If not, the documentary Chasing Coral is here to help. And even if you think you understand, you’re likely to find the film illuminating. The film’s director, Jeff Orlowski, got the idea for this […]
Climate Change is Ruining the Winter Olympics
Climate change is causing conditions at the Winter Olympics to be less safe.