Letters + The Internet Speaks

The Soapbox

Within and Against Capitalism

Party Lines by Alyssa Battistoni

climate change is an extremely complicated, all-encompassing problem (similar to capitalism) but we'll have to find ways of solving it within capitalism

Neoliberals with Wind Farms

Struggle Session

a conversation with Marcel Andreu, Gareth Dale, Sarah Nagel

on Green Parties within Europe having been absorbed into the prevailing neoliberal agenda and have failed to recognise capitalism as the problem that it is

Victory Over the Sun

Friends & Foes by Connor Kilpatrick

a biography of Tony Mazzocchi, head of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International union in the 70s. he married the environmental movement and the labour movement in the US, recognised that classic environmentalism often neglected class

Tyrannosaurus Rex

by Trish Kahle

on Rex Tillerson's ties and motives & what that means for US energy policy going forward

Digging Free of Poverty

by Thea Riofrancos

on anti-mining demonstrations in the Amazon

Everybody's Favorite Law

The Vulgar Empiricist

on the uselessness of cap and trade programs

Where We Are, What It Will Take, and What if We Fail?

Transitions

historical events and predictions (by year)

Make It Happen

Uneven & Combined

we can transition to clean energy while preserving job counts

Tell Me What You Really Mean

Dossier

"translating" PR-friendly terms like "rapid oxidation" and "fugitive emissions"

Signed, Sealed, Undelivered

Field Notes

explanations of various international climate change treaties/groups

Living, Not Just Surviving

by Alyssa Battistoni

we should have a program similar to the New Deal. we also have to think about social/ecological reproduction?

By Any Means Necessary

by Peter Frase

a good overview of geoengineering and what it can do

The Last Stimulus

by Daniel Aldana Cohen

on how we need to (at least partially) transcend capitalism to truly combat climate change in an egalitarian, democratic way?

Green Islands

Ways of Seeing by Owen Hatherley

a brief summary of "green city" planning around the world (no real takeaways)

Bono Kills the Planet

Bass & Superstructure by Alexander Billet

on the uselessness of rock concerts (like "Live Earth") for raising awareness of climate change (we don't need more personal responsibility, we need to change the dominant power structures)

People Make the World Go Round

Girondins by Branko Marcetic

on the Sierra Club being historically seduced by neo-Malthusian ideas (like curbing immigration and forced birth control)

Bill Gates Won’t Save Us

Versailles by Ben Tarnoff

on SV being unable to combat climate change on its own (cites green tech disaster of 2006-2011, spearheaded by John Doerr). even Bill Gates' new billion-dollar fund on clean energy won't help

The Eco-Right’s One Simple Trick

Thermidor by Kate Aronoff

how the right is split between those who deny climate change, and those who accept it but think the economy can continue pretty much the way it is now (by implementing economic measures like carbon tax, cap and trade, etc)

If We Fail

some concrete predictions re: rising sea levels resulting in destroyed infrastructure and property, as well as some ways to combat it

We Gave Greenpeace a Chance

Popular Front by Angela Nagle

dismissing Greenpeace's anti-Trump stunts. we need less small-scale individualist responses and more economic transformation

Planning the Good Anthropocene

The Cookshop by Leigh Phillips

if we want to tackle climate change, we can't rely on the market; we need democratic planning of the economy (transcending the price signal)

Beware Your Local Food Cooperative

The Dustbin

a failed attempt to set up a food coop in the Twin Cities? idk

Jacobin Is Dead. Long Live Catalyst

Means & Ends