"Young people motivated by climate concerns should take rank-and-file jobs in strategic sectors that can push industries towards transition & revamp recalcitrant unions into powerful agents of change. Youth climate activists should salt the climate transition" 👏👏👏
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Young people looking to fight climate change should consider jobs in strategic industries to organize new unions or revitalize old ones and advocate for green, pro-labor policies.
The fight for a livable future can’t be won without organized labor.
I'm in @jacobinmag.bsky.social today arguing for young climate activists to salt the just transition.
"There must be the recognition that we cannot make the transformations needed if we don’t have an organized working class with a militant labor movement at its heart."
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With COP 30 winding down, we're reposting some of critiques of Green Capitalism and productivism from the previous year.
By @kaibosworth.bsky.social , @andrewonearth.bsky.social , @beniuliano.bsky.social , @alastairiles.bsky.social , @adamcalo.bsky.social , and Maywa Montenegro.
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Robinson is a great exemplar of why so many people distrust the media in this country. Good job!
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Donald Trump is doing the Abundance Agenda legal-planet.org/2025/09/06/d...
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Cover art by Thais Trindade. The title "NACLA REPORT ON THE AMERICAS" is listed on top. The illustration is like a board game, where communities stand in the way of capitalist and extractivist powers going through the board with tractors and other machinery, commodifying forests, removing people, even as they place wind turbines and other symbols of "sustainable development". The arrow points to the endgame: Green capitalism in the americas.
The latest issue of the NACLA Report was co-edited by Breno Bringel and myself. NACLA is deeply committed to socio-environmental justice in the Americas, so we wanted this issue to provide insights into the state of ecological imperialism in the region, including its green capitalist facades.
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@jasonhickel.bsky.social & @andrewonearth.bsky.social via @officialznet.bsky.social
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I joined @andrewonearth.bsky.social for this interview reflecting on degrowth, socialism, & political power.
"Our governments are not dealing with the ecological crisis because they are capitalist. So, it is capitalism that must be overcome."
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ICYMI: To mark the 5-year anniversary of his book, Less is More, @jasonhickel.bsky.social spoke to @andrewonearth.bsky.social for the *first* edition of the BREAK–DOWN newsletter.
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To mark the 5-year anniversary of his book, Less is More, @jasonhickel.bsky.social spoke to @andrewonearth.bsky.social
for the *first* edition of the BREAK–DOWN newsletter:
“Degrowth should be understood as an element within a socialist transformation, as a corrective to productivist strains of socialist thought that are inadequate for our moment. The problem with productivism is that it ignores imperialism & ecology.”
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I am honored to share my interview with @jasonhickel.bsky.social for the 5-year anniversary of his groundbreaking book, Less is More.
Also very grateful to be the first feature for the @the-breakdown.bsky.social’s new newsletter. Go read & subscribe!
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“Degrowth is a gateway into socialist thought for the 21st century”
To mark the 5-year anniversary of his book, Less is More, @jasonhickel.bsky.social spoke to @andrewonearth.bsky.social for the first edition of the BREAK–DOWN newsletter
“At the outset, we estimated that Long-term Carbon Dioxide Removal could cost $950 billion a year to capture an amount of carbon equivalent to 25% of the world’s 2024 emissions (9.5 gigatons), assuming $100 per captured ton of carbon”
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
“Our findings show a causal association between sanctions & mortality, with the strongest effects for US sanctions. We estimate that sanctions were associated with an annual toll of 564,258 deaths, similar to the mortality associated with armed conflict.”
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
“At the All-India level the proportion of rural/urban persons unable to reach initial official nutrition norms of 2200/2100 daily calorie intake, rose from 56.4/49.2% during 1973-4 to 58.5/56% by 1993-4 and thereafter rose faster by 2011-12 to 67/62%.”
thewire.in/economy/usin...
“A new report by the OECD and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimated that the growth of farming and livestock production worldwide will increase the sector’s greenhouse gas emissions by 6% by 2034.”
www.fao.org/newsroom/det...
Was the Inflation Reduction Act a negative for climate emissions?
Brett Christophers suggests it may have been in his essay in
@the-breakdown.bsky.social
“Between 2021 & 2023 investment in fossil fuels in
as a whole increased more than investment in renewable energy(18%)”
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Minor, but the “meat and potatoes” and “steakhouse” metaphor here is a poor one and reflects just how entrenched carbon-intensive language is a part of the everyday. Actually broccoli should be the main course! @jeremywallace.bsky.social
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“The initiatives in the Climate Realism launch are the initiatives of giving up. Investing in adaptation is needed in any scenario, but tying this to notions of protecting our borders reeks of discredited lifeboat ethics, which only leaves others to suffer for our sins.”
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"It's easy to forget that “crisis” is not simply a synonym for 'bad thing'. A crisis is a turning point... in which a decision is demanded that has not yet arrived."
@geoffmann.bsky.social & I wrote on climate politics in a strange time for the BREAK—DOWN Issue I
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LAUNCHING…. The first issue of our new journal – now available to pre-order on The BREAK—DOWN website 👇
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Maybe if the Heat Map folks were actually funny it would be different. Instead they’re just ignoring alternatives and an overwhelming amount of evidence that contradicts their milquetoast position
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This is not climate realism. It is climate delusion.
The new “centrist consensus” on climate is emerging and its highly nationalistic, flirting with more military involvement, and expecting at least 3 degrees of warming, thereby justifying geoengineering.
www.axios.com/2025/04/07/c...
Mahmoud Khalili’s Letter to Columbia from jail:
“The student movement will continue to carry the mantle of a free Palestine. History will redeem us, while those who were content to wait on the sidelines will be forever remembered for their silence.” mondoweiss.net/2025/04/mahm...
"One thing was immediately clear: a warm year across the planet causes lower global growth.
We found if the Earth warms by more than 3°C by the end of the century, the estimated harm to the global economy jumped from an average of 11% to 40%."
theconversation.com/global-warmi...
“researchers found that the amount of freshwater available for lithium extraction is about 10x lower than previous estimates. Lithium demand, which is expected to grow 40x by 2040, could outpace the limited supplies of freshwater to the Lithium Triangle.”
www.yahoo.com/news/water-s...
New research finds that trade is impacting biodiversity much more than previously thought. This is why consumption matters.
“international trade has caused more than 90% of loss that occurred between 1995 & 2022 due to conversion of natural areas into agricultural land”
phys.org/news/2024-12...
