All-powerful for-profit utilities have apparently bribed/persuaded Florida officials to crush what they consider to be a developing threat - solar power
Squeals of “socialism!” aside, we know how to do this and have done it before, repeatedly. This time it’s not just about saving our banks or fighting a war: this time, it’s about saving the world…
Employment precarisation and environmental degradation are far from incompatible, they both result from the capitalist imperative to economise while producing evermore commodities.
We can’t live without energy and we desperately do need to turn to alternatives to fossil fuels. But alternative energies are only going to be truly viable if we can also greatly reduce our energy needs, which means reconfiguring the global economy.
Christopher Flavelle and Julie Tate
The New York Times
At every step of his political career, Joe Manchin helped a West Virginia power plant that is the sole customer of his private coal business. Along the way, he blocked ambitious climate action.
In a memo shared with Teen Vogue, the youth-led climate group warns Democrats to pay more attention to young voters. The memo strikes a clear tone: Stop taking us, and our voters, for granted.
Are we heading for Cold War II, World War III, or possibly even World War IV (the climate destruction of this planet)? The author explores what it's meant for humanity to have taken from the gods the ability to create Armageddon.
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