Tag: Environment and Climate

A conversation with Wendy Brown on the U.S. presidential election, the exclusions liberal democracy is built on, and why we must aim at more than restoring its mythical former splendor.

Lessons from the new alliances between labor and climate activism.

Sunaura Taylor on what the environmental and disability movements can learn from one another.

After decades of deference to the market, states are exerting greater control over capital. In the face of climate change, it may be too little, too late.

The United States has long supported the repression of Latin American land defenders. The tactics it exported are coming to the Atlanta forest.

But awareness alone won't solve the problem. Here's what we should do.

With time running out, jury nullification for civil disobedience is worth the risk.

Rare earth mining will disrupt local climate resilience. Who should pay the price?

In place of public-private partnerships, we should revive the Pan-African ambitions of the green developmental state.

Noam Chomsky on lies, crimes, and savage capitalism.

Through an assault on administrative agencies, the Supreme Court is systematically eroding the legal basis of effective governance.

In his new book, philosopher William MacAskill implies that humanity’s long-term survival matters more than preventing short-term suffering and death.

Inspired by the rediscovery of Shackleton's HMS Endurance, we revisit two centuries of lessons in leadership from getting trapped in Antarctica's Weddell Sea.

The systems that harm animals go hand in hand with systems that harm humans. Combating them requires inter-species solidarity.

The Global South will suffer the most as colonial legacies, climate change, and capitalism continue to plunge millions into hunger.

The commodity’s bloody history is instructive of how global capitalism can and can’t be fixed.

Sunlight-friendly architecture could heat and illuminate buildings without expending any electricity.

Racial redress should be modeled on the global anticolonial tradition of worldbuilding.