Archive of Climate Change as Class War

The ultra-rich have decided that it’s the very poor who are trashing the planet.

Politicians are struggling to find words in the face of the ecological disaster, but as Christian Salmon notes, this crisis is only the latest in a long series of shocks that have permanently undermined our ability to propose coherent narratives.

A new documentary, To the End, credits the political activists behind the Green New Deal movement for Biden’s environmental policies. Yet, as Matt Huber writes, the film fails to acknowledge that the inability of green activists to build a mass base was also the cause of the Inflation Reduction Act's limitations.

“Left unexamined is the true beneficiary of air travel and the true driver of emissions: the airline industry itself.” An excerpt from Climate Change as Class War.

From anticapitalist theory to abolitionist politics to the cult of Winston Churchill, these books will better your understanding of what happened this year.

A reading list around how different theories of the climate crisis shape our understanding of what must be done.

Featuring Andreas Malm, Ann Pettifor, George Monbiot, and more.

We need radical ideas and systemic change to combat the urgent threat of climate disaster. This reading list of eco-utopian thinking can help guide us.

The Covid-19 pandemic further exposed a world geared toward collapse – degrowth argues that we should radically change our economic system to save the planet and build a more sustainable world for all.

As authors Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass argue in their thrilling and provocative new book, we must humbly accept that humanity cannot fully understand or control the earth—but we can plan new energy systems, large-scale rewilding, and food production for the common good.

Here the authors present their Five Book Plan for imagining a utopian eco-socialist future – or a future at all.