Climate Change

Democrats’ ‘Climate Bill’ Puts Polluters before People and the Planet

August 18, 2022 UNAC Editor Climate Change, Environment, US Politics

by Robert Belano, published on Socialist Action, August 16, 2022 After an embarrassing past few months which included the overturning of Roe v. Wade, rising inflation, a stalled legislative agenda, and Nancy Pelosi’s ill-advised visit to Taiwan, Biden and the Democratic leadership were desperate for a victory. A small win for the party has arrived in the form of the[…]

What does Cuba Have to Do With the International Movement Against the Climate Crisis?

August 16, 2022 UNAC Editor Climate Change, Cuba, petroleum, Socialism

by Alison Bodine, published in Fire This Time, Volume 16, Issues 5, 6, August 2022 The fight for climate justice It has been yet another difficult week of the climate crisis for mother earth and humanity. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just released yet another report. This 6th report highlights how governments lie about the[…]

Icebergs, SCOTUS and EPA − a WW commentary

July 10, 2022 UNAC Editor Biofuels, Climate Change

by Paddy Colligan, published on Workers World, July 6, 2022 Before I understood what it all meant, I thought it was awe-inspiring to see icebergs in the ocean waters around Newfoundland and Greenland. Majestic big ones (how large must they have been to travel so far from their glacial source and still be huge) or somewhat smaller ones that became[…]

COP26: Greenwashing and Plutocratic Misadventures

November 21, 2021 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Climate Change, Global Economics, Resistance

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, November 17, 2021 For all the policy failures of COP26 it may actually be an inflection point in history — a point where social and political conditions force a transformation of consciousness and politics that can usher in epochal change. COP 26 reaffirmed what has been obvious from the beginning: the Northern[…]

Woodland Biomass Idiocy

November 16, 2021 UNAC Editor Biofuels, Climate Change

by Robert Hunziker, published on CounterCurrents, November 16, 2021 One of the most controversial fixes for global warming is the use of woody biomass, cutting trees, burning trees to achieve “carbon neutral” status in the worldwide battle to conquer climate change/global warming. The term carbon neutral (which is not the same as zero carbon and not a scientific term) when[…]

Climate Diplomacy Must Take Africa Into Account

November 13, 2021 UNAC Editor Africa, Climate Change, Colonialism

by Howard W. French, published on World Politics Review, November 10, 2021 The standard, “flirting with apocalypse” narrative that dominates U.S. media coverage and political debates regarding climate change goes something like this: China, which is the world’s biggest carbon emitter, and India, which is lightly industrialized and still quite substantially poor, currently represent the biggest threats to saving the[…]

The Greenwash Con at Glasgow’s COP26

November 11, 2021 UNAC Editor Climate Change, Environment

by Jeff Mackler, November 10, 2021 Literally hours before President Joseph Biden arrived in Glasgow for the COP26 United Nations climate conference, he addressed the G20 richest nations on earth in Rome demanding that the 24 OPEC+ oil-exporting nations dramatically increase their fossil fuel production in order to reduce the monopolized skyrocketing price of gasoline in the U.S., today, approaching[…]

World Leaders Accused of Delivering Empty Promises on a Sinking Ship

November 9, 2021 UNAC Editor Climate Change, Environment

by Andrea Germanos, published on Common Dreams, November 9, 2021 With just four days left of the United Nations climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, climate groups are demanding world leaders urgently change course by rejecting false solutions and committing to stop greenhouse gas emissions at the source to have any chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. “On the proverbial[…]

COP 26: Can a Singing, Dancing Rebellion Save the World?

November 3, 2021 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Climate Change, petroleum

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies, October 3, 2021 COP Twenty-six! That is how many times the UN has assembled world leaders to try to tackle the climate crisis. But the United States is producing more oil and natural gas than ever; the amount of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere and global temperatures are both still rising; and[…]

AUKUS: Myth of a New “Cold War” Between the U.S. and China/Russia

September 28, 2021 UNAC Editor Capitalism, China, Climate Change, Imperial Wars

by Jeff Mackler Socialist Action, September 27, 2021 Friends, Jeff presents a different but useful perspective on China (and Western relations with China) from what you usually see here. I invite discussion around this point. [jb] AUKUS, or the new and secretly negotiated $66 billion nuclear-powered submarine agreement between Australia, the United Kingdom and the U.S., has momentarily ruffled some[…]