Markets and Technology Won’t Solve Climate Crisis. We Must End Capitalism.
It’s the accumulation of capital that’s destroying the Earth System as a place of human habitability.
Climate Disaster Is Turning the Planet Into a Tinderbox
As a United Nations report put it, we’re experiencing “a global wildfire crisis… turning landscapes into tinderboxes.”
The Biggest Criminal Enterprise in History
By Tom Engelhardt | TomDispatch Author’s note: I wrote this piece in May 2013, with a helping hand from the invaluable Nick Turse who came up with the word “terracide.”…
Does Claiming 1.5° Is Unachievable Serve Fossil Fuel Interests?
By Mitchell Beer | The Energy Mix It’s “factually incorrect and politically very wrong” to say a 1.5°C limit on average global warming is no longer possible, International Energy Agency…
Who Will Pay for an Overheating Earth
Unlike the northern powers largely responsible for the greenhouse gases that created this growing set of disasters, as Stan and Priti Gulati Cox explain, the countries of the Global South…
Will We Ever See Climate Change on the Ballot?
When I consider this planet, the only one we humans have (at least as yet), I find it all too unnerving that climate change didn’t make it into the midterms…
Climate Action Is Still Disconnected From Developing Country Realities
By Gaye Taylor | The Energy Mix A COP 27 panel discussion on accountability for climate action revealed an ongoing disconnect between developed and developing worlds, with the former urging…
The Most Important Climate Talk Happened Thousands of Miles From COP27
The world’s two biggest carbon polluters may have finally 'unshackled' climate discussions at COP27.
Why the War in Ukraine Is a True Act of Madness
Rajan Menon, only recently back from Ukraine, lays out just why that war qualifies right now as a true act of madness on Planet Earth.
The United Nations Issues Its Starkest Climate Warning Yet
By Juan Cole | Informed Comment The past eight years have been the eight hottest on record, in further evidence that human-caused global heating is accelerating rapidly and dangerously. So…
Heat Waves Cost Trillions and Hit Poorest Countries Hardest
By Tim Radford | The Energy Mix Summer heat waves driven by climate change do more than harm health and claim lives, a new study shows. They also blight national…
Tom Engelhardt: An Obituary for Our World
Give Vladimir Putin full credit. His invasion of Ukraine helped take our minds off climate change at the worst possible moment (so far), even as his war only increases the…
How to Go from a Win-Win to a Lose-Lose World
While the United States may be in a new Cold War in Eurasia, we, like the rest of humanity, are also in an increasingly hot war right here at home…
Pakistan Flooding ‘Calamity’ Prompts Call for Reparations
“I have seen many humanitarian disasters in the world, but I have never seen climate carnage on this scale,” says UN Secretary General António Guterres of the recent floods in…
Hurricane Ian Was Powerful. Real Estate Developers Made It Catastrophic.
'Dredge-and-fill' created thousands of homes vulnerable to storm surge.