Climate Crisis

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…
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
If We Respond to the Genocide in Palestine the Same Way We’re responding to the Climate Crisis, We Should Expect Many More Loss of Lives
23 Jul 2025
The climate crisis and genocide in Gaza share the same root: capitalism’s willingness to sacrifice the masses. Yet, the institutions built to resist have instead become accomplices.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
The fire this time … (as Amiri tolt me)
29 Jan 2025
"The fire this time … (as Amiri tolt me)" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Black Alliance for Peace
Los Angeles Fires: The Santa Ana Blowback of Capitalist Climate Change Neglect
15 Jan 2025
The fires that have been raging in southern California for days are destroying the cities and homes of tens of thousands of people. This disaster, driven by the worsening climate crisis, is…
Krys Cerisier
COP29 Contradiction and the Climate
18 Dec 2024
Journalist Krys Cerisier attended the COP29 climate conference, where they reported and conducted interviews with activists from around the world demanding funding for climate solutions from the…
Abayomi Azikiwe, Black Agenda Report Contributor
COP29 Summit Marked by Acrimonious Debate Over Emissions and Finance
27 Nov 2024
Annual climate gathering reflects divisions between the industrialized states and the Global South.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Unprincipled, Unstrategic, and Unsustainable: e(U)logy for the U.S. Climate “Movement”
13 Nov 2024
The ineffectiveness of the climate movement during the 2024 election signals its inevitable collapse. But from the rubble, a new movement dedicated to the working class can be built.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Why All Hurricanes Should Be Named “Jim”
16 Oct 2024
Hurricanes Helene and Milton are the result of a long legacy of segregation, environmental racism, and extraction. This white supremacist capitalist system has brought us to this point in our climate…
Max Ajl
Dismantling Green Colonialism: Stages of a Just Transition?
09 Oct 2024
Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region has received much critical acclaim since its publication with Pluto Press in October 2023. Here, while acknowledging…