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The State of Capitalism’s Climate System
Three years ago, 15,000 scientists declared a climate emergency by signing onto a State of the Climate Report. That signing led to annual updates, for example, the most recent version: The 2023 State of the Climate Report: Entering Uncharted Territory, Bioscience, vol. 73, issue 12, December 2023, Oxford Academic (aka: “The Report”). The initial paragraph…
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System Change Not Climate Change
SYSTEM CHANGE NOT CLIMATE CHANGE! The Crucial Demand of Our Time! Degrowing from Chaos to a Steady-State Economy ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS TO CHANGE THE SYSTEM, CHANGE THE MONEY! PARITY ECONOMY JUST TRANSITION MAKE CARBON OUR FRIEND NOT OUR FOE People get it. The realization that we are in the midst of a climate emergency…
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Antarctica Under Siege and XR Takes a Radical Turn
Antarctica has finally succumbed to rapid climate change. This past year (2023) brought changes to the icy continent that left climate scientists feeling a “punch in the gut.” (Source: Red Alert in Antarctica: The Year Rapid Dramatic Change Hit Climate Scientists Like a “Punch in the Guts,” The Guardian, December 30, 3023) Antarctic sea ice…
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Alaska’s Scary Orange Rivers
Global warming can add one more notch to its gun belt. The rapid onset of global warming is turning Alaska’s wilderness rivers orange. Global warming impacts Arctic temperatures 2-4 times warmer than the global average, and permafrost that’s been around since before humans sat round crackling cave fires is rapidly melting. Eons of frozen stuff…
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From Gratitude to Grievance
“Faith is the conviction of things not seen.” Fate is the coming of things seen too late. They told the farmers to plow up the dry land.“Rain will follow the plow,” said the railroads,the government, the agricultural experts.In the 1930s Dust Bowl the shadow fellon the farmers as…
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Adam Aron’s “The Climate Crisis: Science, Impacts, Policy, Psychology, Justice Social Movements”: A Review Essay
Adam Aron’s The Climate Crisis: Science, Impacts, Policy, Psychology, Justice, Social Movements –Review Essay by Kim Scipes Cambridge University Press, 2023; Paperback; ISBN: 978 1108987158 Adam Aron has written an ambitious book, one he intends to be the book on the subject of the climate crisis; and he has succeeded in many ways, especially…
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The Challenge before us: Achieving an Ecological Civilization
Through prodigious intellectual work during the height of the industrial revolution in England, building on prior and concurrent achievements by humanity in science and philosophy, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels gave humanity the intellectual scaffolding for understanding and ultimately overcoming the death spiral that accompanies capitalism. That scaffolding includes dialectical and historical materialist theory and…
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Global Warming Slices and Dices Greenland
Northern Greenland is under attack by global warming at the same time as delegates to COP28 heap praise on a purported landmark deal to transition out of fossil fuels — but beware of the true meaning behind the language. Its disingenuousness is a stamp of approval for much more climate upheaval imprinted onto one more…
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Argentina goes loco: Javier Milei elected president
Francisco Dominguez looks at the grim implications of the shock victory for ashocking candidate, assessing how much damage they might do to the nationand the continent Latin America and the world were stunned to learn that on November 19 2023,Argentina’s most extreme right-wing politician, Javier Milei, had been electedpresident with a hefty 56 per cent…
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Remembering Jean Genet: the United States and Palestine
“ … because I don’t love the oppressed. I love those whom I love, who are always beautiful and sometimes oppressed, but who always rise up in revolt.” Jean Genet – The Miracle of the…
