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Summer 2017
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Issue 26
Earth, Wind, & Fire
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The wall will fall not only between art and industry, but simultaneously between art and nature also. This is not meant in the sense of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, that art will come nearer to a state of nature, but that nature will become more “artificial.” The present distribution of mountains and rivers, of fields, of meadows, of steppes, of forests, and of seashores, cannot be considered final. . . .
Man has already made changes in the map of nature that are not few nor insignificant. But they are mere pupils’ practice in comparison with what is coming. Faith merely promises to move mountains; but technology, which takes nothing “on faith,” is actually able to cut down mountains and move them. Up to now this was done for industrial purposes (mines) or for railways (tunnels); in the future this will be done on an immeasurably larger scale, according to a general industrial and artistic plan. . . .
Man will occupy himself with re-registering mountains and rivers, and will earnestly and repeatedly make improvements in nature. In the end, he will have rebuilt the earth, if not in his own image, at least according to his own taste. We have not the slightest fear that this taste will be bad.
Party Lines
Within and Against Capitalism
Struggle Session
Neoliberals With Wind Farms
A few decades ago Europe's Green Parties inspired hope. Today, not so much.
Tyrannosaurus Rex
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's life is intimately tied to US energy policy and all the social devastation that comes with it.
Digging Free of Poverty
In Ecuador, the Left is torn between urgent development needs and the costs of natural resource extraction.
The Vulgar Empiricist
Everybody’s Favorite Law (print/pdf only)
Cap and Trade programs have proliferated, but global emissions continue to climb.
Transitions
Where We Are (print/pdf only)
Transitions
What It Will Take (print/pdf only)
Transitions
What If We Fail? (print/pdf only)
Uneven and Combined
Make It Happen (print/pdf only)
A transition to clean energy doesn't have to come at workers’ expense.
Living, Not Just Surviving
Working-class movements must place social and ecological reproduction at the heart of their vision of the future.
By Any Means Necessary
We need a comprehensive vision of ecological reconstruction — and that means having geoengineering as part of our vision.
The Last Stimulus
We shouldn’t ask whether we must get out of capitalism so that humans can survive. We must ask how and when.
Versailles
Bill Gates Won’t Save Us
When it comes to green technology, only the state can do what Silicon Valley cannot.
Thermidor
The Eco-Right’s One Simple Trick
Climate-denying Republicans grab the headlines, but green policy debates are being shaped by the Right.
The Cookshop
Planning the Good Anthropocene
The market is blindly leading us toward climate calamity — democratic planning is a way out.
Dustbin
Beware Your Local Food Cooperative
Produce is serious business. A history of the co-op wars.
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