Simon Pirani: The road away from fossil fuels

The transition away from fossil fuels will be a transition away from capitalism towards a society that lives in harmony with nature, fashioning from it what it needs, not what feeds profit. Politically, that has to be fought for outside the UN process

Don Fitz: Is Nuclear Power a Solution to the Climate Crisis?

The great environmental challenge of our time is to understand that the many sources of biodestruction are interconnected and must be confronted simultaneously, rather than disparaging one danger to focus on another

Ivan Couronne: Trump unleashes Coal

President Donald Trump’s administration announced a plan Tuesday to weaken regulations on US coal plants

Celia Bottger: If Ireland Can Get Out of Fossil Fuels, Your Town Can Too

Almost 900 cities, universities, and governments have divested over $6 trillion from the fossil fuel industry. Why not yours?

Ted Glick: A Week to Remember in the Climate Fight

A FERC which is no longer a rubber-stamp for the gas industry would be huge

Olivia Schwob: Haul Together

With companies fighting reorganization, it’ll take a united front to get the private waste industry to clean up its act

Michael Brune: CA Fires “Will Seem Mild In Comparison to What’s Coming”

Of the 20 largest wildfires in California history, 15 have occurred since 2000. This year’s fires have already burned nearly three times as many acres as the same time last year

Naomi Klein: Capitalism Killed Our Climate Momentum, Not “Human Nature”

These candidates, whether or not they identify as democratic socialist, are rejecting the neoliberal centrism of the establishment Democratic Party, with its tepid “market-based solutions” to the ecological crisis, as well as Donald Trump’s all-out war on nature

Brenda Ekwurzel: Wildfires Are Faster, Stronger, Deadlier

Interview on climate change

Mathew Lawrence: A giant planetary Ponzi scheme

Our economies are borrowing far more from the Earth’s ecosystems than they can sustain

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