Category: Environment
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Building a Worker-led EV Transition, for People not Profit
The EV transition is currently led by corporations under for-profit and market logic. From shop floor battery fires to factory shutdowns, this transition is creating a constant state of crisis … Watch video »
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Climate Finance and the Limits of Market Fundamentalism
On December 18, 2024, we spoke with Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood, a senior researcher at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), a research institute that contributes to the debates across Canada … Keep reading »
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Book launch: Climate Change is a Class Issue /w Sarah Glynn and John Clarke
The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education is honoured to host Sarah Glynn and John Clarke to launch their book Climate Change is a Class Issue. The capitalist system, which … Watch video »
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Fire Weather
The wildfires in California replicate the massive fire storms in the boreal forest in Canada and Siberia, the lungs of the earth. Our addiction to fossil fuel has ignited an age of fire. Keep reading »
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Refusing Ecocide: From Fossil Capitalism to a Liveable World
On February 8, 2024, Earth reached a new milestone. The European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service reported that mean temperature in the previous 12 months had been more than 1.5 … Keep reading »
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Expanding the Possible: A Climate Change Strategy from Below?
The Green New Deal has been largely blocked at the national level, but it is thriving in communities, cities, and states. Jeremy Brecher’s new book is both an urgent call to action and proof of concept. Keep reading »
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100% Tariffs on China’s EVs: Is this Canada’s “Just Transition”?
The Liberal government recently imposed a 100 percent tariff on Chinese-made electric vehicles (EVs). What‘s at stake in this move? Is this simply another attempt to cozy up to America‘s … Watch video »
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“Post Growth” – Why and How?
People against destroying our planetary home often favor “No Growth” – “steady as she goes” – or even the rhetorically catchier “DeGrowth” – “shrink baby shrink.” Their pro-growth opponents sometimes … Keep reading »
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Oil Kills: Inside the International Uprising Disrupting the Aviation Industry
Despite increasing repression, an unprecedented alliance of civil resistance groups is targeting airports on three continents to demand a binding treaty to end fossil fuels by 2030. Keep reading »
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Energy Unions in Mexico Welcome Shutdown of Key Neoliberal Institutions
The Mexican government administration has proposed a package of 20 reforms, including the dissolution of two energy sector autonomous bodies (the focus of this bulletin) from the power and hydrocarbons … Keep reading »
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Feeling the Heat: Capitalism and Global Warming
We are in real trouble. Global carbon dioxide emissions (the main cause of global warming) continue to rise, hitting a new high in 2023. Last year was also the hottest … Keep reading »
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Water, Climate, Violence
“For Fanon, then, the right to indifference, or to ignorance, does not exist.” The doctor’s task “was to rise up in revolt, become indignant, show alarm… not to dissimulate the … Keep reading »