Today’s movement to abolish fossil fuels can learn from two different paths that the British and American governments took to abolish slavery in the 19th century.
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The Fight against Climate Change Must Become the New Abolitionism
Climate Crisis Shouldn’t be about Mere Money
I was so pleased to see a piece called “Climate change is our World War III. It needs a bold response” today by the venerable Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz. A great all-around mind, Stiglitz brings an economist’s wide take on money, stuff and people to the question of whether the world can afford […]
Book Review: ‘This Changes Everything’
Naomi Klein is right: The climate crisis is such a clear and present danger to the future of human civilization, that the fight for climate solutions should be the top priority of every activist movement for any worthy cause today. Of course, writing in her 2015 book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, Klein […]
The #1 Easiest Way to Fight Climate Change
As long as energy prices remain low, you can forget about asking hundreds of millions of American consumers to drive less or turn down their thermostat. A few committed environmentalists will conserve energy just because it’s the right thing to do. But experience has shown that for the average American, morality is a poor motivator […]
