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Human activity is causing disastrous climate disruption and Earth’s sixth mass extinction event, triggering critical losses of biodiversity. But this crisis exceeds ecological collapse. Deepening inequality, retrenchment into fascism, precarious employment, racial violence, and a resilient military industrial complex make it difficult to find a way out of these growing disasters. The answer will be more than just technocratic tinkering - it will demand a Green New Deal.

Tensions between building trades unions and environmental groups have existed for so long that they seem inescapable, yet both groups share the same objective – a livable future for people and the planet.

Compliance fines and renewable energy credits are not encouraging energy providers to decarbonize DC's power grid. The District should directly finance renewable expansion and confront the dirty work head-on.

The ink from President Biden’s signature on “The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022” was hardly dry when his underlings began to undercut the most critical parts of the legislation.

Ryan Cudemus-Brunoli

Without a guarantee of healthful food to all, we will be unable to move forward or effectively organize any form of alternative to capitalism.

An inventive new book uses a technology lens to show how the automobile took over culture, with capitalism guiding events at every turn

Rep. Jamaal Bowman’s HR4442 is designed to return schools to their place as centers of community. If socialists act fast, we can make it a reality.

A brief update (and appeal to action) on the infrastructure bill making its way through Congress.

The struggle against Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline so far.

National DSA has kicked off the next phase of its Green New Deal campaign, encompassing labor and the PRO Act but moving into the highly unionized public school system.

In a post-carbon future, will urban expressways wither away and revert to urban space?

A marxist analysis of Biden's signature infrastructure bill.

Biden's infrastructure plan is a fair start, but in no way broaches the scale of investment needed to seriously address the climate crisis.

David Schwartzman

For the eco-socialist left, Robinson's new sci-fi thriller should be seen as a great resource for inspiration and provocation

Modern monetary theory: what it is, where it comes from, who supports it, and how to separate the economic theory from political rhetoric.

David Schwartzman

Should the DSA carry-forward its electoral strategy through the Democratic Party? An ecosocialist response.

Democratizing the energy grid is one way to limit fallout from climate change while bringing us closer to a socialist future.

Kim Stanley Robinson's latest novel not only has the juice of a good sci-fi narrative, but provides strong insight into how an international plan for reversing climate change might be structured.

A review of David Schwartzman's new book, which imagines the possibility of a green future within the context of class struggle and socialism.

As the world beings to realize more dramatic accelerants to climate change, the need for global mobilization becomes more urgent than ever.

Danielle Meitiv

These opening remarks were delivered to Sept. 15th’s Climate Emergency Town Hall in Montgomery County’s Silver Spring Civic Center.

David Schwartzman

All of these Green New Deal goals will need a broad bottom-up mobilization of the residents most impacted, DC’s working class along with their allies, and must be planned and implemented by the same.

For ecosocialists and mainstream environmentalists anxious to rally support for a Green New Deal, we'll have to take the task of educating voters into our own hands.

DSA climate activists might conceivably play an important role in saving the Tidal Basin that could win grudging support from a host of different local and national organizations.

In Marxist terms, McDonald’s and its fast-food rivals have made their industry into a corporate “hegemon” – economically, culturally and politically.

Socialist or Marxist political economy is necessary but not sufficient in itself to advance a vision of 21st Century socialism.

Don’t look now, but what we all buy and consume in the way of food – combined with how corporate agribusiness shapes how most people eat – is helping to create climate catastrophe.

Environmental activism has been hampered by political boundaries in the DMV. A singular, multi-state public initiative could allow DMV socialists to engage in cross-jurisdictional ecosocialist work.

Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal provides an opportunity for socialists to gain new credibility with a wide range of climate activists.

At least in the near to mid-term future, even green socialists need to hope that “green” capitalist corporations make advances in the development of revolutionizing the capitalist energy sector away from reliance on fossil fuels.

To meet the danger of climate change, developed nations will need to organize a new global Marshall Plan with representatives from developing countries.

As a whole, the labor movement has not committed itself to ending greenhouse gas emissions that most scientists believe are likely to produce climate catastrophe by the end of this century.

A Marxist approach to capitalist environmental crisis important both to our organization and the wider radical left.

Dan Adkins updates the development of micro-grids, independent energy sources that can deal big corporate power companies out of their dominion over power and prices.

A member of the Climate Change and Environmental Justice Committee, expresses skepticism that attempts to relate classical Marxism -- and classic Marx -- to today's climate concerns will not be analytically useful and overlooks the role of population in the crisis.

National parks are under severe threat from the extraction-first mania of the Trump administration. Andy Feeney contextualizes this latest barbarism.

Lucy Duff explores the devastation to the environment, communities and workers of mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia.

Every level of economic and political society in the US -- except the GOP's federal monopoly -- expressed immediate and constructive pushback to Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Accord.

A lengthy recollection of DSA's engagement in the People's Climate March - and the panel we hosted before it.

Carbon taxes are not every environmentalist's cuppa tea.

Transportation advocacy is key for introducing localities to the need for strong climate policy.

The galloping threat of vector-borne diseases that comes with warmer weather farther north in the US may offer organizing opportunities for ecosocialists.

Interest in a universal basic income (UBI) appears to be rising alongside a widespread sense that we are nearing the end of work. Two examples show what this sort of plan might look like.

Trump's taking of the White House offered the possibility of shattering liberals' illusions of the neutrality of the state

The sun and wind are public resources and will bring in a new era of regionally based power. By directly tying them into local governments and organizations we can be sure that they serve the public.

There are impressive coalitions of climate activist groups forming, both at the local level and nationally to contest Trump's suicidal climate agenda.

The big problems that plague our society can only be solved with an effort that matches the size of their danger.

Notes on local ecosocialist mobilization efforts.

Rex Tillerson made his fortune slow-roasting the planet with full knowledge of the consequences.