Climate Crisis

Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
A Final Solution to The Human Surplus Problem (Or, How the End of EPA’s Endangerment Finding Also Ends the Farce of Trump “Populism”)
18 Feb 2026
Trump's EPA denies that greenhouse gases endanger public health. It is destroying public health protections and confirms that environmental policy serves corporate interests exclusively.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The EPA’s Zero Sum Game Surfaces a Dialectical Paradox That Should Be Celebrated, Not Decried
04 Feb 2026
The debate over the EPA's new math misses the point. The agency hasn't changed its values, it has simply stopped pretending to account for communities it was never built to protect.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Theme From the Bottom: Post COP 30 Reflections and the Case for a Global Bottom/Up Collective Intervention of Oppressed and Colonized People
26 Nov 2025
The path to climate liberation requires a radical break from failed leadership and a serious commitment to class analysis.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio November 21, 2025
21 Nov 2025
In this week’s segment, we discuss a march to support Mumia Abu Jamal and all political and elder prisoners. But first, we hear about the latest climate change conference, COP30, and the limits of…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
COP30 and the Failure of the Climate Conference Process
21 Nov 2025
The latest United Nations climate change conference, COP30, recently took place in Belem, Brazil. A people’s counter summit was also held, attended by indigenous Brazilians, Afro-Descendants, and…
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright , Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
COPing Out In Brazil: How The United Nations Reduces its Legitimacy More Than Global Emissions
19 Nov 2025
Despite being held in Brazil, a nation with the largest Black population outside of the African continent, COP30 has continued a thirty-year pattern of sidelining the specific climate threats to Afro…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Mother Earth Is Angry!
01 Oct 2025
"Mother Earth Is Angry!" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The Paris Climate Agreement is the Global Climate “Movement’s” Two State Solution
01 Oct 2025
The Paris Climate Agreement is akin to a two-state solution for a planet on the brink, a falsehood giving the ecocide perpetrators cover for their crimes.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Ethiopia: National Aspiration, Identity, and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
10 Sep 2025
“Ethiopia just changed the continent of Africa forever.” - African development economist and electricity activist
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The Second Africa Climate Summit Reveals The New Face of Colonialism; Technocrats and Cryptocolonization (Part 1, The Setting).
10 Sep 2025
The Africa Climate Summit is a greenwashing front for a new wave of colonialism. Under the guise of "nature-based solutions," corporations like the Gates Foundation are pushing schemes that will turn…