Climate Change

Can You Fight for Climate Justice Without Being Antiwar?

April 14, 2023 UNAC Editor Anti-War, Climate Change, Cost of War, Environment, War on the Earth

by Teddy Ogborn, produced by CodePink, April 13, 2023 Can organizations sincerely say they are leading the climate justice fight without also being unapologetically antiwar? Short answer – no. Here’s why. We cannot end climate change without ending war. The United States military is the planet’s largest single emitter of greenhouse gasses and consumer of oil. The US military and[…]

The Renewable Energy Transition Is Failing

November 25, 2022 UNAC Editor Climate Change, Environment, Global Economics

by Richard Heiberg, produced by Earth | Food | Life, a project of the Independent Media Institute, November 22, 2022 Renewable energy isn’t replacing fossil fuel energy—it’s adding to it. A complex scientific problem cannot be solved through political football. [jb] Despite all the renewable energy investments and installations, actual global greenhouse gas emissions keep increasing. That’s largely due to[…]

A People’s Analysis of a World on Fire

September 25, 2022 UNAC Editor Argentina, Brazil, Caribbean, Economics, Environment, Latin America, Public Health, Taiwan, Ukraine

by Manuel Bertoldi, published on People’s Dispatch, September 24, 2022 The following article is a summary of debates and reflections within the organization ALBA Movimientos, which were discussed during the last meeting of the International Peoples’ Assembly. These are observations made based on the daily reality in which the peoples of the world exist: in a turbulent world with an[…]

China Holds First-Ever Carbon-Neutral Olympics

February 14, 2022 UNAC Editor China, Environment

by Lyn Neeley, published on Workers World, February 14, 2022 This year’s Beijing Winter Olympics is the first in history to be carbon-neutral. This includes renewable energy in all game venues, introducing new low-carbon technologies and using transportation fueled by hydrogen, natural gas and electricity. China completed the Zhangbei power grid station in time for the Olympics. That’s the world’s[…]

Millions Say: Change the System, Not the Climate!

October 24, 2019 UNAC Editor Africa, Climate Change, Environment, South Africa

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, October 9, 2019 The week of unprecedented massive and worldwide climate mobilizations that began on Friday, Sept. 20, represented an historic breakthrough in the consciousness of the world’s people. An estimated 7.6 million people in 185 countries from every continent on earth except Antarctica mobilized in unprecedented numbers to condemn the governments and[…]

The Madness of Fossil Fuel Subsidies

June 11, 2019 UNAC Editor Environment

Solar farm in California desert. (Bureau of Land Management via Flickr) by Niklas Hagelberg, Published on Consortium News, June 7, 2019 Fossil fuels — oil, gas, coal and their derivatives — pollute the atmosphere and emit the greenhouse gases that are ramping up global heating to dangerous levels. And governments around the world are subsidizing this pollution. Historically, governments used[…]

Governments’ Failures On Climate Spur New Actions

December 5, 2018 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Climate Change, Environment, Resistance

by Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, from Popular Resistance, November 25, 2018 Notes from the UK: We are currently traveling in the United Kingdom, following our participation in the No US NATO Bases conference in Dublin, Ireland and delivery of a letter to the International Criminal Court in The Hague calling for a full investigation of Israel’s war crimes. We[…]

What’s the Real Cause of California’s Wildfire Disaster?

November 25, 2018 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Climate Change, Environment

Photo by Bob Dass: Firescape from Highway 175, Lake County, California Some active fires in the distance. In the middle ground, the burned area (black), the fire breaks, and the red fire retardant. Mount Konocti on the far right. Mount Konocti is an old volcano, that last erupted 11,000 years ago. This entire area (and much of California) was shaped[…]

Lets Get Serious About the Environment

November 7, 2018 UNAC Editor Climate Change, Environment

Published by the Editorial Staff of Workers World Website, October 17, 2018 A fierce debate is raging within the environmental movement. It comes very late, but it is here now and that must be applauded. It was summed up by a large banner stretching across a boulevard in Paris during a recent demonstration: “Change the system, not the climate.” This[…]

Hurricane Florence Delivers a Stark Antiwar Message

September 25, 2018 UNAC Editor Ending War, Environment, Militarism

by Nick Mottern, from Buzzflash @ Truthout.org “Hurricane Florence, a storm whose size, intensity and destructive potential is directly related to climate change, continues its rampage in the Carolinas, bringing ashore not only high winds, but record-breaking flooding that will incapacitate the region for months, if not years,” said Truly Courageous, of the National Weather Service Hurricane Center. “We are[…]