Renewable Energy

The Climate Crisis Will End When Capitalism Ends

August 31, 2023 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Climate Change, Environment, petroleum

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, August 30, 2023 The climate emergency won’t end because of heartfelt pleas to the people and the interests who created the crisis. Ecocide will stop when capitalism ends. “No more drilling on federal lands. Period. Period. Period. Period.” Joe Biden February 9, 2020 The March to End Fossil Fuels will take place[…]

UTIER, Independent Puerto Rican Electrical Trade Union Fighting US Neoliberal Privatization

November 14, 2022 UNAC Editor Austerity, Capitalism, Colonialism, Labor Struggles, Lawfare, Puerto Rico

Statement by Jeanette Graulau, published on Labor Today, November 2022 While some Western countries are planning to re-nationalize their energy industries, the U.S. imposes upon its colony of Puerto Rico a privatization plan to ‘unbundle’ the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), one of the oldest and fully operational electric power corporations of Latin America. Since 2020, LUMA Energy, a[…]

Beyond Capitalism

August 31, 2022 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Environment

By Hank Stone, August 31, 2022 A friend recently circulated this summary in email. It is a clear and focused summary of Smith’s article so, you can see the point and if you want to read the detailed article that inspired this piece it was published on Truthout a few years ago and is linked in the first paragraph. [jb][…]

Planning can save the planet: China chooses renewable energy

April 26, 2019 UNAC Editor Climate Change, Environment, Imperial greed

Photo: Solar hot water in Weihai, Shandong province, China, like in the rest of China, this technology has a great success in this city ~ Wikimedia Commons (Solon) You can see this in Iran as well, though the hot water heaters aren’t accompanied by solar panels where I was by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, April 23, 2019 The[…]