Fossil fuels made two centuries of industrial civilization possible. But their continued use is now causing irreversible climate destabilization, threatening the death of tens or hundreds of millions. Since consuming only sixty percent of the already mapped and easily available deposits of coal, oil and gas around the world is an absolute gurantee of climate catastrophe, governments should have been sitting down at Copenhagen to determine which forty, fifty or sixty percent of those available reserves will be left in the ground, and to ban prospecting for more. All the rest, Monbiot points out, was hypocritical nonsense.
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For me, the most generative way to read, the most thorough, is to teach a text, to read in communion with others.
Democratic community control of the police transforms the power dynamic between police and citizens.
White supremacy is an incredibly insincere distraction that tries to erase the histories of White, Black, and Red peoples.
Moving between the Philippines, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Mexico, South Africa, Brazil, and the United States, the author portrays how workers are fighting back.
Trump is a racist and demagogic capitalist Chief of State, but the United States is not fascist – yet.
