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But that’s not how Earth First! organizer Judi Bari saw it. She saw herself and her comrades as being on the side of workers—workers who might want to go fishing or camping on occasion—as opposed to the clear-cutting, job-automating timber bosses. She told an interviewer at the time, “There are ver…

I strive to keep my critique mostly out of the psychological realm, but here it’s worth citing Anselm Kizza-Besigye, who argues that Western horror, even on the political left, at the idea that our access to particular consumer items might decline in a better-planned world is a reflection of geopol…

One of the main problems with the Oil-Value-Life chain is that human desperation anywhere becomes a threat to human life everywhere, because capital reliably conscripts the reserve army of labor into environmentally noxious work. To counteract this predatory (though impersonal) phenomenon, public p…

There is a perfect example of sophisticated public-power thinking along these lines in a 2023 report from the Climate and Community Project (now the Climate & Community Institute). In “Achieving Zero Emissions with More Mobility and Less Mining,” the authors approach American transportation plannin…

Some have accused public-power advocates of taking advantage of the climate crisis to push an unrelated socialistic agenda. Why would state control over the means of production make the United States more likely to meet its emissions and adaptation goals than crafting a better market for the player…