Issue #1 – RIGHT TURN
Organizing Against Abandonment
On the history and future of USAID
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Issue #1 – RIGHT TURN
A Green Cold War
In our era of global economic interdependence, the face of geopolitics has changed.
Issue #1 – RIGHT TURN
Failure as Success
What is Biden’s climate legacy?
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Socialising Nature
How we can live together without exploiting each other? This is the work of socialising nature.
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On Disaster Nationalism and the Climate Crisis
In the wake of Donald Trump's stunning election victory, the continued march of "disaster nationalism" and the far right will increasingly define global climate politics.
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Beyond Human Security
Attempts to achieve security by trying to dominate nature are now backfiring on an unprecedented scale.
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Uniting The Climate and Housing Crises
Not only do insecure housing systems and growing environmental pressures concern the same buildings and the same people — they cannot be separated at all.
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James Watt in Shenzhen
Past and present energy transitions have been motivated by the political and economic ends of industry and government, but they also create new opportunities for labour mobilisation.
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Against a Military Transition
The "transition plans" of Western militaries are only viable responses to climate and ecological crisis when the causes of those crises are ignored. What is needed now is the drawdown, not the expansion, of military power.
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Market Failure
Market-based climate policy — which strives to replace politics with “precision" — has failed. We need transformative, democratic solutions to address the climate crisis.
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Is The Future Worth It?
We urgently need to transform our relationship to the future, freeing it from the logics of capitalisation and its unequal treatment of time.
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What is a Just Transition?
As the idea of the "just transition" has become mainstream, it has increasingly been co-opted. We need a transition away from both fossil fuels and from the extractive systems harming both people and planet.