Posts tagged: climate-change

Climate Justice and the Emergence of Planetary Sovereignty

Can we conceive of revolutions in the name of climate justice, and if so, what do they look like?
"Without a Popular Movement We Don’t Stand a Chance”: Andreas Malm on Climate Change

In an interview, Andreas Malm describes how he came to study ecology and considers the prospects for the climate movement.
The Year of Environmental Disaster

2017 demonstrated that climate chaos is happening here and now rather than in some distant future.
Everything's Coming Together While Everything's Falling Apart: The ZAD

A documentary video on the ZAD by artist Oliver Ressler.
Disaster Communism

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, New York grassroots groups charted an inspiring alternative to disaster capitalism.
Sinking Feelings: Of Glaciers, Zombies, and Catastrophic Affect

Official assessments radically underestimate the magnitude of warming experienced by city dwellers today. To live in a large city today is to be on the edge of the most rapidly changing environmental conditions ever experienced by humans.
Five Book Plan: Cities and Climate Change — Five Years After Hurricane Sandy

On the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, Ashley Dawson provides a select list of books and resources for assessing the history and future of cities facing climate change.
The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change

On the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, Extreme Cities looks at how climate change is affecting global cities and how to support urban movements already fighting to remake our cities in a more just and equitable way.
Who Lit This Fire? Approaching the History of the Fossil Economy

Outside of hard climate science, history should be the preeminent field for the study of global warming.
Video: Jason W. Moore — “To Make Ourselves the Masters and Possessors of Nature”: Dutch Capitalism and the World-Ecological Revolution of the Long Seventeenth Century

Jason Moore on the origins of the twenty-first century's "distinct, but mutually formative" crises of capitalism and ecology.
Puerto Rico: Belonging to, But Not Part of

The Trump administration's delay in sending real aid to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria is a distasteful display of colonialist racism. But it's par for the course: our citizenship has always been second-class.
Constructing a Common Language: A conversation with Razmig Keucheyan

Keucheyan discusses environmental inequality, the past and present of the workers' movement, populism, and the relationship between strategy and theory.