Tag: Climate Change

  • Neoliberal apotheosis: COP26 creates global fire market and offers it to capitalist arsonists

    The Glasgow Conference (COP26) should have given priority to 1) making good on the promise of the “developed” countries to contribute to the Green Climate Fund, from 2020 onwards, at least one hundred billion dollars a year to help the global South meet the climate challenge1; 2) forcing these same countries to intervene financially to…

  • What the New Report Tells Us about Climate Change​

    What the New Report Tells Us about Climate Change​

    The October 2018 report issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC), a UN body made up of scientists, confirmed the need to limit the rise in CO2 to 1.5 degree Celsius. This point, suggested in the Paris Agreement, had been demanded by island countries that faced obliteration with a two-degree rise. In reviewing…

  • No Plant Closings! Plant Conversion to Save Workers and the Planet

    No Plant Closings! Plant Conversion to Save Workers and the Planet

    As autoworkers have begun to formulate demands for the opening of the 2019 contract negotiations, GM upped the ante by announcing the loss of 14,000 jobs with the closure of three assembly plants and two transmission plants to add to the two million manufacturing jobs already lost due to plant closures. Immediately the workers at…

  • California Wildfire Death and Destruction – 2018 Edition

    California Wildfire Death and Destruction – 2018 Edition

    The California wildfires raging in the north and the south of the state have left such horrific devastation in their wake that biblical metaphors of disaster come easily to mind. “Armageddon” and “inferno” appear regularly as descriptors in newspaper accounts of the disaster.  The photographic images of the aftermath of these wildfires recall destruction wrought…