The Trouble

14/06/2021

This week Molly Robinson tackles oil well plugging and the myth of just transition. Read it here:

The hype surrounding ill-conceived Green New Deal-style legislation merits reflection on the Left’s tendency to let a compelling story get in the way of acknowledging objective constraints.

13/05/2021

This week, Daniel Goulden reflects on the lessons they've learned from organizing in times of crisis, and explains how
NYC-DSA Ecosocialists are applying those lessons to win the Public Power campaign for New Yorkers. Read it here:

How I learned to organize in an age of perpetual disasters.

02/04/2021

In this week's article, Matthew Huber criticizes Democrats' wonk-ish approach to climate politics, and explains why we need a return to the original mass-politics strategy of the GND.

Why do we keep reviving technocratic climate politics when it has consistently failed?

24/02/2021

read Tom Pike's latest for The Trouble, on leftist comedians taking on the corporate dems of LA:

How a ragtag group of leftist comedians went up against fossil fuel interests and corporate Democrats—and won.

11/02/2021

"Degrowth is inevitable: it’s just a matter of deciding whether human agency will play a positive, benevolent role in the process". Read Sam Miller McDonald's review of "Less is More" and subsequent interview with the author, Jason Hickel

A review of Less is More and interview with Jason Hickel

20/01/2021

in this week's article, Saul Levin makes the strategic case for a lower voting age. read it here:

Teenage enfranchisement is a vital step towards both meaningful democracy and climate action .

20/01/2021

in this week's article, makes the strategic case for a lower voting age. read it here: https://www.the-trouble.com/content/2021/1/19/we-need-a-16-year-old-voting-age

16/12/2020

In this week's article, Nafis Hasan and Vignesh Ramachandran
review Out of the Woods' recent collection of essays, "Hope Against Hope". They discuss the promise of disaster communism and the threat of eco-fascism. Read it here:

State-centered climate solutions risk putting us on the path to ecofascism. The Out of the Woods collective provides an alternative framework: Disaster communism.

06/05/2020

"It's only going to become more and more important to have outlets for the kinds of local stories that aren't going to make the national news as we move into an era of climate disruption in which, the sewage leakage near six blocks down from your house isn't going to matter to anyone who’s outside your immediate bubble, but is something that you should really probably know about."

The editors discuss COVID's affect on the struggle for climate justice in our latest:

The climate movement can learn lessons from the coronavirus pandemic—especially regarding capitalist elite strategies and our own organizing strategies.

28/04/2020

"It is incumbent on students, faculty, and staff in the environmental field to recognize and repair the fissures created by white environmentalism and challenge racial capitalism at every turn. That means going beyond sanitized, university-endorsed notions of diversity and inclusion and engaging in the hard work of anti-racism, decolonization, and redistributing the means of knowledge production."

Roshan Krishnan tackles the relationship between white environmentalism and the corporatization of the university in our latest:

Universities and corporations are teaming up to solve climate change— and ensure that they can continue to amass power through racial capitalism.

22/04/2020

It’s . Climate politics still have a long $%*&!$ way to go. We’re generating ideas for how to win climate justice.

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21/04/2020

All Green New Deals must include a
Universal Basic Income, argues Olly Haynes in our latest:

Wealth is co-produced by society as a collective, and everyone deserves a share: a safety net not only for workers but our entire planet.