“There are too many coal barons, too many oil tycoons, too many politicians who are completely tied to the fossil fuel industry, too many vested interests that don’t want change.” Radio Adelaide interviews Simon Butler.
Archive | Australia
Creative self-destruction: Climate crisis and ‘green capitalism’
Large corporations get away with ecocidal behaviour by obscuring the link between endless economic growth and environmental destruction
Australia: United mass action can win climate fight
Australian anti-fracking activist calls for ‘movement of movements’ around concrete demands in November 29 People’s Climate Marches
There’s no such thing as cheap fossil fuel
Australia’s coal industry is propped up by huge government subsidies, despite the downturn in the global coal trade and a divestment campaign.
What ecosocialists can learn from Naomi Klein
Socialists can’t just criticize neoliberal and liberal responses. We must actively support and build the movements that are confronting the climate crisis
How greens and labor can win … together
Green Bans, Red Union: How a militant union and green activists united to stop anti-environmental development in Australia
Canada, Australia, Japan: Climate change saboteurs
As continents burn and extreme weather accelerates, three of the world’s richest countries are leading the fight to do nothing about greenhouse gas emissions
Only massive public investment can slash emissions
If we are not talking about massive public investments in green technology and social services then we are not really talking about responding to the climate emergency.
Australia: populationists use racism to split green vote
Populationist groups are trying to split Australian environmentalism with a coordinated anti-immigrant campaign
Marxism and the ecological revolution
Are Marx’s views on ecology relevant to today’s environmental crises?
Pricing carbon: A failed strategy that won't save the climate
Simon Butler: “We cannot deal with climate change through crisis-prone markets that subsidise dirty energy firms.”
Climate emergency needs a people's power solution
Socialist candidate: We cannot solve the global climate emergency as long as mining, energy and banking remain in the hands of the billionaires and their corporations.
To save the earth, nationalize the energy industry
Energy is far too important to our future to be left in the hands of corporate directors and investment bankers.
Marxism as if the planet matters
If Marxism is to live up to its own maxim as a theory to not merely interpret the world but to change it, then it must include strong ecological theory and practice.
The personal relevance of socialism
My friend Kamala Emanuel, a member of the Socialist Alliance in Perth, on Australia’s west coast, posted this on Facebook. It’s brilliant.
Australian socialists on the climate change crisis
A defining feature of politics today is the refusal of the capitalist class and its political representatives to confront the global climate crisis.
Good news! Now we can destroy the world even quicker
An oil discovery in Australia could make runaway climate change a certainty
Why ecosocialism?
“Green capitalism” is an oxymoron, because ecological destruction is built into the nature and logic of our present system of production and distribution.
Is a united and effective climate movement possible?
Science says that climate change ‘tipping points’ are coming fast. With pessimism of the intellect growing ever more intense, how can we avoid despair and unite in an effective movement based on optimism of the will?
Ultra heatwave: Australia's new normal
The world burns, while corporations and governments fiddle