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Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Africa Confronts the Food, Fertilizer, and Climate Crisis
09 Nov 2022
Food production in Africa is complicated by climate change and the use of fertilizers which increase food production but which also create green house gases and create other environmental harm.
Anthony Rogers-Wright
Why the Inflation Reduction Act is Less a “Climate Bill” and More a Poison Pill for Black and Indigenous Communities and Movements
24 Aug 2022
Among other problematic issues, the so-called climate provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act allow for more oil drilling on federal lands. Greenwashing and Democratic party duplicity are nothing…
Vijay Prashad
Money for Weapons as the World Burns
11 May 2022
$100 billion was pledged to assist the Global South amidst the climate change crisis but world wide defense spending now exceeds $2 trillion. War making trumps saving humanity from disaster.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Don't Look Up Reflects the Cynicism of Capitalist Decay, for Better and for Worse
05 Jan 2022
The controversial film offers insight into the crisis of the system but misses the mark in key areas.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
TRANSCRIPT: “Will they mourn us on the front line?” Mia Mottley, PM of Barbados, speech at the Opening of the World Leaders Summit of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), November 1, 2021
03 Nov 2021
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley provided an impassioned call for global action on climate change. But what does it mean to beg for your life from the white neocolonial powers who have…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Reclaiming Our Time for the Planet
03 Nov 2021
Reclaiming our time
Brett Wilkins
Bolivian President Warns 'Carbon Colonialism' Won't Solve Climate Crisis
02 Nov 2021
Bolivia's president Luis Arce used the COP26 summit to speak against "green capitalism" offered by the rich capitalist nations and in favor of alternatives which put humanity at the center.