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A resource for journalists, politicians, policy makers, activists and citizens interested in climate change and the environmental emergency
The ElephantA resource for journalists, politicians, policy makers, activists and citizens interested in climate change and the environmental emergency
Why the world cannot afford the rich
2024-03-12 in NatureEquality is essential for sustainability. The science is clear — people in more-equal societies are more trusting and more likely to protect the environment than are those in unequal, consumer-driven ones. Equality is essential for sustainability. The science is clear — people in more-equal societies are more trusting and more likely to protect the environment than are those in unequal, consumer-driven ones.
Tagged under: Economics | Consumption | Capitalism | Sustainability
SEC’s landmark Climate Disclosure Rule explained
2024-03-07 by in New Private MarketsThe SEC's long-awaited and controversial Climate Disclosure Rule will require registered companies to disclose material climate risks to their business strategies and operations, and GHG emissions for the largest companies.
Tagged under: USA | Regulation | Capitalism
The Collapse of Modern Civilization | Richard Grannon
2024-01-17 in Collapse 2050"The Collapse of Modern Civilization" by Richard Grannon argues modern society has lost its way due to consumer capitalism and technological advancements.
Tagged under: Collapse | Capitalism
‘Cheaper to save the world than destroy it’: why capitalism is going green
2024-01-15 in The GuardianAkshat Rathi argues that around the world economies are switching to clean technology as prices drop
Tagged under: Electric Cars | Capitalism | Cars
Bill McKibben On Global Heating, Capitalism, Insurance, And Social Friction - CleanTechnica
2024-01-13 by in Cleantech News Ñ #1 In EV, Solar, Wind, Tesla NewsBill McKibben is musing about what happens to the global economy as insurance companies decline to offer coverage in some areas.
Tagged under: Insurance | Capitalism
Feeding the Beast: Superintelligence, Corporate Capitalism and the End of Humanity | Proceedings of the 2021 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society
2023-12-14 (or before) in dl.acm.orgTagged under: Capitalism
What it Means When I’m Critical of Capitalism | by umair haque | Eudaimonia and Co
2023-12-13 in Eudaimonia and CoI get in trouble, sometimes, for being critical of…ta dum…capitalism. Eye roll. It’s painted as some kind of radical stance, Not a…
Tagged under: Capitalism
Who Are the Climate Activists Dressing Up as Orcas?
2023-09-22 by in HyperallergicThe marine mammal has emerged as a symbol of the capitalism-driven destruction of the planet, with protesters “orcanizing” for Climate Week actions.
Tagged under: Activism | Capitalism
Stumbling towards collapse: coming to terms with the climate crisis
2023-08-25 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsLeading sociologists have approached the climate crisis by emphasising a way forward and identifying hopeful directions. What sense is to be made of suggestions that we are instead on the brink of ...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Capitalism | Collapse
Why was there no water to fight the fire in Maui? | Naomi Klein and Kapuaʻala Sproat
2023-08-17 in The GuardianBig corporations, golf courses and hotels have been taking water from locals for years. Now the fire may result in even more devastating water theft
Tagged under: Capitalism | Wildfires
Industrial farming has killed billions of birds | Climate & Capitalism
2023-06-06 in Climate & Capitalism | An ecosocialist journal edited by Ian AngusScientists: Saving birds requires rapid transformative change…
Tagged under: Farming | Climate Change | Capitalism
Coverup: Industry hid dangers of ‘forever chemicals’ | Climate & Capitalism
2023-06-01 in Climate & Capitalism | An ecosocialist journal edited by Ian AngusSecret documents show 3M and Dupont suppressed knowledge of PFAS toxicity…
Tagged under: PFAS aka Forever Chemicals | Capitalism
Feeding the Beast: Superintelligence, Corporate Capitalism and the End of Humanity
2023-05-27 (or before) in SlidesLive · Professional Conference RecordingTagged under: Capitalism
Capital’s long war to dispossess the poor | Climate & Capitalism
2023-05-11 in Climate & Capitalism | An ecosocialist journal edited by Ian AngusCapitalism's wealth and power rests on centuries of expropriation…
Tagged under: Capitalism
XR activists bring HSBC's annual meeting to a halt in protest against its ‘shameful climate policies’
2023-05-05 in Morning StarTagged under: Capitalism | Activism
Capitalism and extreme poverty: A global analysis of real wages, human height, and mortality since the long 16th century
2022-09-20 (or before) in ScienceDirect.comThis paper assesses claims that, prior to the 19th century, around 90% of the human population lived in extreme poverty (defined as the inability to a…
Tagged under: Capitalism
Ask Prof Wolff: The Case for Degrowth
2022-08-02 (or before) in YouTubeA Patron of Economic Update asks: "I would love to hear you talk about degrowth. It's something I've been reading a little about for a few years. I probably ...
Tagged under: Degrowth | Economics | Capitalism
Big Fossil’s Disaster Capitalist Response to Russia-Ukraine
2022-07-31 (or before) in The InterceptThe industry moved quickly to capture the narrative, going from disinformation blitz to policy wins within a matter of weeks.
Tagged under: Disinformation and Misinformation | Capitalism | Fossil Fuels | Russia
Republican Group of State Financial Officers Takes on Woke Capitalism - EXPOSEDbyCMD
2022-05-29 (or before) by in exposedbycmd.orgRepublican treasurers, auditors, and staff from 16 states are huddling together with corporate lobbyists and an array of right-wing groups for the State Financial Officers Foundation's Annual Meeting in New Orleans this week to discuss strategies to combat "woke" policies, fake news, and China.
Tagged under: Capitalism | Louisiana
Over 130 companies implement sustainability reporting metrics
2022-05-25 (or before) in The World Economic ForumA coalition of leading firms have co-created a comprehensive corporate system to highlight the need for an aligned and consistent ESG reporting system.
Tagged under: Coal | Capitalism | ESG - Environmental, Social and Governance | Sustainability
Book Review: A History of Monsanto and Its Toxic Legacy – The Wire Science
2021-12-31 (or before) in The Wire Science - The Wire ScienceTagged under: Capitalism
Sustainable Investing Is Mostly About Sustaining Corporations
2021-12-12 (or before) in BloombergWall Street uses ESG ratings to boost “sustainable” labels on stock and bond funds—but what do these ratings really measure?
Tagged under: Capitalism | ESG - Environmental, Social and Governance | Finance
Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 30 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending
2021-12-09 (or before) in Films for ActionOur present moment is saturated in dystopian, apocalyptic fantasies of the future. As the late Mark Fisher said, "It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” We can...
Tagged under: Fish | Capitalism
Capitalism Reimagined: Seven dimensions of a better economic system - ImpactAlpha
2021-11-23 by in ImpactAlphaImpactAlpha, Nov. 23 – In the not-too-distant future, a powerful and diverse movement has succeeded in redesigning the rules, practices, narratives and power relationships ...
Tagged under: Capitalism | Economics
The battle over a vast New York park: is this climate resilience or capitalism?
2021-10-31 in The GuardianThe city’s plan to rebuild Manhattan’s East River Park on higher ground has incited a dispute over ‘green gentrification’
Tagged under: Climate Change | Rivers | Capitalism
Capitalism is killing the planet – it’s time to stop buying into our own destruction | George Monbiot
2021-10-30 in The GuardianInstead of focusing on ‘micro consumerist bollocks’ like ditching our plastic coffee cups, we must challenge the pursuit of wealth and level down, not up
Tagged under: Oceans | Brazil | Capitalism
Trashing the planet and hiding the money isn’t a perversion of capitalism. It is capitalism | George Monbiot
2021-10-06 in The GuardianExploiting people, exploiting land, and keeping its ugly side secret. Its historical effects are all too recognisable in the Pandora papers now, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
Tagged under: Capitalism
Industrial Policy’s Comeback? - Prime
2021-09-15 in Prime - Policy Research in MacroeconomicsThe answer cannot lie in the sound creation of an “industrial policy,” however ambitious. The globalized, financialized, monopoly capitalism of our day instead requires wholesale structural reform
Tagged under: Capitalism
Is Capitalism Compatible with Environmentalism? | Science Museum
2021-09-01 (or before) in Science MuseumJournalist and broadcaster Jon Snow will chair a panel of experts in economics, policy and climate science to explore how to reconcile boosting profits with stewardship of our planet.
Tagged under: Economics | Capitalism
How Capitalism Torched the Planet by Imploding Into Fascism | by umair haque | Eudaimonia and Co
2021-08-21 (or before) in Eudaimonia and CoWhy Catastrophic Climate Change Is Not A Problem For Fascists — It Is A Solution
Tagged under: Climate Change | Capitalism
Excerpt | To End Fossil Fuels, End Settler Colonialism
2021-07-11 (or before) in YES! MagazineMuch environmental framing misses the point about capitalism and Indigenous sovereignty.
Tagged under: Colonialism | Capitalism | Fossil Fuels
‘Capitalism must die to protect the sacred’
2021-07-11 (or before) in Canadian DimensionIndigenous people are putting their bodies on the line for the benefit of all. They deserve more than empty gestures—they deserve our unconditional and active support. Any reduction in the power of the state to oppress them reduces its power to oppress anyone else. As The Red Deal emphasizes, none of us will be safe until all of us are safe. This book deserves to be widely read, discussed, and built upon.
Tagged under: Capitalism
There's a simple answer to climate change. But will capitalism allow it? - Prospect Magazine
2021-05-24 in Prospect MagazineIn discussions of climate emergency, degrowth has always been the elephant in the room; acknowledged from time to time, but rarely spoken about. But it may be the only solution
Tagged under: Climate Change | Degrowth | Capitalism | Geoengineering
Put Brake on Capitalism, Says Popular Marxist Book Author
2021-05-11 in nippon.comOsaka, May 11 (Jiji Press)--Kohei Saito, author of a Marxist book popular in Japan, has called for applying a…
Tagged under: Capitalism | Japan
Overselling Sustainability Reporting
2021-05-01 in Harvard Business ReviewFor two decades progressive thinkers have argued that a more sustainable form of capitalism would arise if companies regularly measured and reported on their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. But although such reporting has become widespread, and some firms are deriving benefits from it, environmental damage and social inequality are still growing. This article, by Timberland’s former COO, outlines the problems with both sustainability reporting and sustainable investing. The author discusses nonstandard metrics, insufficient auditing, unreliable ESG ratings, and more. But real progress, he says, req...
Tagged under: Capitalism | ESG - Environmental, Social and Governance | Sustainability
Experts Lay Out Their Case Against Carbon Pricing | naked capitalism
2021-04-14 in Naked CapitalismClimate change policy advocates have turned against market approcaches like carbon offsets, which have clearly failed. But what next?
Tagged under: Carbon Pricing | Capitalism
The Big Sustainability Illusion - how a whole crowd of incrementalist ESG progress proponents wants to make us think they support "Sustainability"
2021-03-01 (or before) in LinkedInReform of corporate disclosure on sustainability is highly discussed at this moment; triggered by the illusion that stakeholder capitalism is the new horse to bet on (should that not have happened 20 years ago?), pledges made by several networks advocating for further convergence in the last couple
Tagged under: Capitalism | ESG - Environmental, Social and Governance | Sustainability
Anne Boyer: "The Heavy Air"
2021-02-13 (or before) in yalereview.yale.eduA meditation by Anne Boyer on capitalism and the air we breathe
Tagged under: Capitalism
Capitalism Is Struggling With the Language of Climate Change
2021-02-10 (or before) in BloombergThe technical terminology of science can sometimes be muddled in powerful climate messages from finance and political leaders.
Tagged under: Joe Biden | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Capitalism | Finance
Alberta Inquiry Paid $28K for a Report Smearing Hundreds of Climate Journalists
2021-01-26 (or before) in VICEThe report, paid for by the Alberta government, suggests climate reporters are part of a coordinated ploy by George Soros and other progressive elites to quash capitalism and distribute climate change propaganda.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Capitalism
Revolution and American Indians: “Marxism is as Alien to My Culture as Capitalism”
2020-10-11 (or before) by in Films for ActionThe following speech was given by Russell Means in July 1980, before several thousand people who had assembled from all over the world for the Black Hills International Survival Gathering, in the...
Tagged under: Capitalism
Capitalism is Killing the Earth – An Anarchist Guide to Ecology
2020-09-22 (or before) in Anarchist FederationTagged under: Capitalism
How Individualist Economics Are Causing Planetary Eco-Collapse
2020-08-19 (or before) by Richard Smith in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismWhile capitalism has brought unprecedented development, this same motor of development is now driving towards ecological collapse, threatening to doom us all.
Tagged under: Economics | Capitalism | Collapse
Richard Smith
2020-08-19 (or before) by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismRichard Smith is an economic historian. He wrote his UCLA history Ph.D. thesis on the transition to capitalism in China and held post-docs at the
Tagged under: Capitalism
Green Capitalism: How Multinationals Use Climate Change to Impose an Industrial Agricultural Model
2020-08-19 (or before) by Translated by Leslie Thatcher in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismAdvocates are questioning whether Big Ag's "climate-smart agriculture" will reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Capitalism
Tech-enabled 'terror capitalism' is spreading worldwide. The surveillance regimes must be stopped
2020-07-24 in The GuardianTerror capitalism uses tools such as facial recognition to extract profits from marginalized people. Big tech and governments are collaborating
Tagged under: Capitalism
The New Moral Case for Fossil Fuels by Alex Epstein
2020-01-24 (or before) in YouTubeFor the last five years, Alex Epstein's 2014 New York Times bestseller, The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, has been one of the most important books in the worl...
Tagged under: Greta Thunberg | Climate Change | Capitalism | Fossil Fuels
Larry Fink's Annual 2022 Letter to CEOs | BlackRock
2020-01-20 (or before) in Investment Management & Financial Services | BlackRockIn his annual 2022 letter to CEO's, BlackRock's Larry Fink discusses how effective stakeholder capitalism creates and sustains value for shareholders. Read more.
Tagged under: Capitalism
The solution to the global crisis of capitalism is simplicity itself | by tedtrainertsw | INSURGE intelligence | Medium
2019-12-09 (or before) in MediumToward the post-capitalist revolution
Tagged under: Capitalism
Meet catabolic capitalism: globalization’s gruesome twin – Uneven Earth
2019-11-11 (or before) in Uneven Earth - Where the ecological meets the politicalTagged under: Capitalism
The US city preparing itself for the collapse of capitalism
2019-10-31 in The GuardianFrom a festival that helps artists trade work for healthcare to a regional micro-currency, Kingston is trying to build an inclusive and self-sufficient local ecosystem
Tagged under: Capitalism | Health | Collapse
It’s time to add global justice to XR’s demands
2019-10-24 (or before) in Red PepperExtinction Rebellion must recognise the impacts of colonialism and capitalism, and demand a just transition for all, argues Aranyo Aarjan
Tagged under: Extinction Rebellion | Colonialism | Capitalism
Join us at ENDGAMES
2019-10-17 by in rs21 | revolutionary socialism in the 21st centuryOn 26 October, rs21 is hosting Endgames? Capitalism and the Climate Emergency.
Tagged under: Capitalism
Why the fight against climate change will never be won with capitalism
2019-08-24 (or before) by in Eco-Business.com - Asia Pacific's Sustainable Business CommunityOur current socio-economic system relies on the exploitation of both people and planet. In saving a world on the brink of ecological and social disaster, calls for a greener, more efficient...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Capitalism
U.N. Climate Report Merely a Blueprint for Destroying the World Economy
2019-06-03 (or before) by in The Heritage FoundationWhat will it take to keep the planet habitable? According to some eco-warriors, all that’s necessary is to end capitalism — the one economic system that has lifted billions from poverty and suffering. The latest United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report led Eric Holthaus, a Grist writer, to tweet enthusiastically, “The world’s top scientists just gave rigorous backing to systematically dismantle capitalism as a key requirement to maintaining civilization and a habitable planet.”
Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change | Economics | Capitalism
Banks are financing climate chaos
2019-06-02 (or before) in Fossil Banks No Thanks!The Fossil Banks No Thanks platform brings together organisations and campaigns from all over the world pressuring banks to stop financing the fossil fuel industry.
Tagged under: Disinvestment | Fossil Capitalism | Fossil Fuels | Banking | Capitalism
Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard: ‘Denying climate change is evil’
2019-05-10 in The GuardianThe octogenarian entrepreneur, who prefers gardening to meetings, says capitalism is destroying earth
Tagged under: Climate Change | Capitalism
Dare to declare capitalism dead – before it takes us all down with it | George Monbiot
2019-04-25 in The GuardianThe economic system is incompatible with the survival of life on Earth. It is time to design a new one, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
Tagged under: Capitalism | US Politics
Capitalism is destroying the Earth. We need a new human right for future generations | George Monbiot
2019-03-15 in The GuardianThe children on climate strike are right: their lives should not be sacrificed to satisfy our greed, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
Tagged under: Children | Capitalism | Women and Children
How ecologism is the true heir of both socialism and conservatism
2013-07-22 in LSE Blogs | Expert analysis & debate from LSERupert Read argues that being concerned about the environment is consistent with both socialism and conservatism. True conservatism is not adherent to capitalism and associated with the wealthy eli…
Tagged under: Capitalism
#ACCELERATE MANIFESTO for an Accelerationist Politics
2013-05-14 in Critical Legal ThinkingBy Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek - The Left must accelerate towards global post-capitalism or risk planetary catastrophe.
Tagged under: Capitalism
Capitalism vs. the Climate
2011-11-09 in The NationDenialists are dead wrong about the science. But they understand something the left still doesn’t get about the revolutionary meaning of climate change.
Tagged under: Drought | Capitalism
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