Tag: ClimateChange
-
Class Leaders and Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism
We are living in the most dangerous time for the human species since our early origins. The massive numbers of wildfires destroying large swaths of Canada and elsewhere this summer … Keep reading »
-
Green Economy, Green Capitalism? The Case Against The Case for Climate Capitalism
Even now, with a ten-year timeframe left for action, it’s rare for the climate crisis to be treated as the emergency it is. So, credit where due to Tom Rand. … Keep reading »
-
Canadian Unions and the Student-Led Global Climate Strike
A week of student-led global strike actions to address the climate change crisis, under the banner FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike, was kicked off this past Friday with actions across the world. This … Keep reading »
-
German Unions and the Climate Crisis
German trade unions have realized that the green transition needs to happen – and they’re fighting to make sure it’s bosses, not workers, who pay for climate justice. Keep reading »
-
Student Strikes for Climate Justice
Since 2018, Swedish students have been striking in front of the Parliament in Stockholm every Friday, prompted initially by high school student Greta Thunberg. #FridaysfortheFuture Keep reading »
-
The Politics of Hurricanes
How Climate Catastrophe Victimizes the Poor Climate change catastrophe is, as this article is written, facing hundreds of thousands on the eastern seaboard of the United States and on the Philippines … Keep reading »
-
Fighting for Climate Justice
Lies, damn lies and statistics, right? Well not always – sometimes statistics dramatise social reality in a graphic way. A year before the devastating floods in India, Bangladesh and Texas, … Keep reading »
-
Jason W. Moore – The Rise and Fall of Cheap Nature
Work, Power, and Capital in Making & Transcending the Planetary Crisis Toronto — 13 December 2016. Finance. Climate. Food. Work. How are the crises of the twenty-first century connected? In Capitalism … Watch video »
-
Facing the Anthropocene
Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System Toronto — 25 September 2016. Science tells us that a new and dangerous stage in planetary evolution has begun, the Anthropocene, a … Watch video »
-
After the Sands
Energy and Ecological Security for Canadians Toronto — 7 April 2016. View on www.slideshare.net The Paris climate accords were strong on aspirations to keep the world below 2C temperature rise but … Watch video »
-
Climate Crisis and Climate Realism
Toronto — 29 October 2015. Mass migration, civil war, banditry, imperial military adventures – all these are current responses to the climate crisis. These and other impending dislocations from climate … Watch video »
-
Linda McQuaig is Right: Keep the TarSands in the Ground!
Toronto — 29 September 2015. At the beginning of the federal election campaign, Toronto Centre NDP candidate and respected author Linda McQuaig stated a simple fact: “a lot of people … Watch video »