Source: Jacobin

Articles from this source (5)

Obsessing Over Climate Disinformation Is a Wrong Turn

  2024-08-26 (or before) in Jacobin

Much of the climate movement is now pouring its energies into combating disinformation. But this focus fails to address real concerns about a green transition and obscures what is needed to win the public over to effective climate action.

  Tagged under: Disinformation and Misinformation

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Gradual Measures Won’t Save Us From Climate Disaster

  2024-01-10 (or before) in Jacobin

Rich countries are gradually cutting carbon emissions — but that won’t be nearly enough to stop climate disasters, like the heat wave now ravaging the planet. We need drastic, state-led action to rapidly decarbonize our economies.

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Amazon’s Climate Pledge Was a Lie

  2023-11-25 (or before) in Jacobin

Jeff Bezos pledged four years ago that Amazon would lead the way on carbon reduction. Since then, the firm’s emissions have risen by 40 percent — and its use of creative accounting suggests that the real figure is far higher.

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Technocrats Won’t Solve the Climate Crisis

  2023-08-20 (or before) in Jacobin

In January, the Biden administration launched an ambitious plan for a valuation of all the United States' natural resources. But the initiative, which aims to encourage environmentally responsible investment, is naive and confused.

  Tagged under: Joe Biden | Capitalism

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What Does Revolution Mean in the 21st Century?

  2023-08-14 (or before) in Jacobin

We live in an era of major mass protest in nearly every single region in the world. Yet social revolutions as we knew them in the twentieth century are nowhere to be found. Why?

  Tagged under: Activism

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