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Who Really Controls the World’s Rivers?
Who Really Controls the World’s Rivers? James C. Scott’s last book, In Praise of Floods, asks if it’s too late for humanity to reverse its dire relationship with the bodies of water that sustain life. Ad Policy The Deluge towards Its Close, Joshua Shaw, 1813. (Heritage Art / Heritage Images via Getty Images) At the very beginning of his final book, completed shortly before his death last year, James C. Scott issues an apology.
Nick Brandt
By Nick Brandt Publisher : Publisher : Hatje Cantz 2021 | 168 pages Photographed in Zimbabwe and Kenya in late 2020, The Day May Break is the first part of a global series by acclaimed photographer Nick Brandt, portraying people and animals that have been impacted by environmental degradation and destruction. The people in these photographs were all affected by climate change, displaced by cyclones and years-long droughts.
The West Needs a Russia-not a Putin-Policy
Even before the latest phase of the war in Ukraine, the narrative surrounding Western policy towards Moscow has focused on Russian President Vladimir Putin. Such an approach ignores the reality that Putin acts rather as the adjudicator, and ultimate stabilizer, of the country’s fractious political élite. Nevertheless, recent reporting on Russia has remained fixated on Putin, effectively dismissing the rest of society and institutions as inept and insignificant.
Dems Can't Stop With Just the Climate Bill
Dems Can't Stop With Just the Climate Bill
If Biden Isn't Willing to Really Fight the Climate Crisis, He Shouldn’t Run in 2024
On Friday, 15 July, Joe Biden acknowledged the death of his signature climate bill, conceding defeat in a war he never truly seemed willing to wage. He did it from a hastily prepared briefing room in Jeddah, where he had spent the previous day shilling for increased Saudi oil production. It was painful to watch. The fossil fuel oligarchs had him right where they wanted him: his climate ambitions foiled, his rhetoric defanged, his hat in his hand.
Dems Have a Month to Save Our Planet
On Thursday, the supreme court of the United States struck down the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, sharply limiting the federal government’s ability to fight climate change.
Want to See the Future of Climate Politics? Look to Australia.
Sydney, Australia—Three months after a “rain bomb” detonated over the city of Brisbane—after the relentless floods had drowned entire suburbs, after 60,000 tons of water-logged trash had been pulled from the wreckage, after a volunteer “mud army” had been deployed to scrape the sludge from the streets, after the actuaries had appraised the total damage at $3.35 billion—a dam finally broke in Australian politics.
Is There a Place for Patriotism on the Left?
There are two good reasons why every American progressive should be a patriot. One is emotional, the other practical—and they reinforce one another.1 I love my country. I love our passionate and endlessly inventive culture of music, sports, literature, and film, which has thrilled and influenced people all over the world.
Should Environmental Activists Sabotage Fossil Fuel Infrastructure?
Andreas Malm & Daniel Sherrell The Nation February 15, 2022 (Eli Hartman/Odessa American via AP) Sabotaging fossil fuel infrastructure is a form of self-defense, or perhaps humanitarian intervention. On the premises of climate science, fossil fuels should be classified as projectiles fired into humanity—primarily toward the Global South. The question is not whether we have a right to destroy them; it is why people haven’t yet acted on the imperative.
Should Environmental Activists Sabotage Fossil Fuel Infrastructure?
Sabotaging fossil fuel infrastructure is a form of self-defense, or perhaps humanitarian intervention. On the premises of climate science, fossil fuels should be classified as projectiles fired into humanity—primarily toward the Global South. The question is not whether we have a right to destroy them; it is why people haven’t yet acted on the imperative.
Joe Manchin: Who Gave You Authority to Decide the Fate of the Planet?
'No matter how many brutal setbacks we're forced to swallow, we will always have a reason to keep fighting.' (photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images) My rage against the senator might consume me if I couldn’t set it down here Late in the evening on Friday 15 October an alert appeared on my phone that seemed at last to portend the end of the world.
If Biden Doesn’t Pass the Climate Bill, it Will Be the Betrayal of a Generation
Opinion Failure to pass Build Back Better would disillusion a generation of voters, and potentially fracture the Democratic party. November 9, 2021 Deep into the night last Friday, long past the hour when most Americans had ceased paying attention, Congress passed the $1.2tn bipartisan infrastructure bill otherwise known as the BIF. Its passage was heralded as a victory for President Biden, and the daily news chyrons dutifully marked a point in his column.
Book review of Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World by Daniel Sherrell
The other night I made my 4-year-old son cry. That’s not all that uncommon, as most parents know. I routinely bring out the tears by telling him that we won’t buy Hot Wheels cars every day or that he can’t have ice cream for breakfast. But this time was different. This time, the emotions swelled because I served him dinner on disposable dishware. “Mom, we can’t reuse or recycle this plate!” His disgust, fear and sadness were real and raw.
8-4-21 Nicole Sandler Show - Waiting for the End of the World with Daniel Sherrell
Download here or click below to play, (or watch the video at the bottom of the page!) “Waiting for the End of the World” is an Elvis Costello song that I can’t play on the air if I want to avoid another copyright strike. But it’s where my mind immediately went when I heard the title of climate activist Daniel Sherrell‘s book, Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of the World.
Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World
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Letter to an Unborn Child: How Could I Bring You Into a Collapsing World?
On April 14, 2018, a civil rights lawyer named David Buckel burned himself alive in Prospect Park. He did it alone, just before sunrise, a brief illumination on a peripheral lawn. A cyclist found his body in a circle of char, though she had to pass by several times to be sure of what she’d seen. Later, she told reporters: it was hard to make myself believe it. The suicide was well planned, even courteous. Buckel had cleared a ring of dirt around himself to keep the flames from spreading.
Biden Is Flirting With a Better Economic Paradigm. Young People Need Him to Commit.
As children of the 90s and early aughts, millennials came of age beset by problems both too large to ignore and too expensive to fix: debilitating student debt, worsening climate change, skyrocketing inequality. Promised a world of steady abundance—Fukuyama's end of history, the zenith of global capitalism—we were met instead with an unshakeable austerity. When we looked to our government to address these problems, political leaders of both parties clutched nervously at their purse strings.
Biden is Flirting with a Better Economic Paradigm. Young People Need Him to Commit. - CounterPunch.org
As children of the 90s and early aughts, millennials came of age beset by problems both too large to ignore and too expensive to fix: debilitating student debt, worsening climate change, skyrocketing inequality. When we looked to our government to address these problems, political leaders of both parties clutched nervously at their purse strings. “How will you pay for it?” we were asked again and again, less a question than a rhetorical veto.
How an Aboriginal family beat back a fossil fuel conglomerate
This story is adapted from the forthcoming book WARMTH, which will be published by Penguin Books in August. There is no marked trail leading north from the town of Broome, Australia. There is only the beach, deep red and wide as a highway. On our first day of hiking, it seems to divulge a path of its own, our footfalls pressing moisture from the sand, forming little parched perimeters, like paving stones that appear as we walk.
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