Greening the Sahel isn’t enough
A UN film pushes an ambitious plan to mitigate the impact of climate change on the Sahel by planting trees across it. But, averting disaster requires even bigger thinking.
#ClimateStrike
Towards a working-class environmentalism for South Africa
It's going take a fully democratic anti-capitalist movement to fight climate change. The case of South Africa shows how long we have to go.
What kind of ancestor do you want to become?
Medical anthropologist Julie Livingston argues that the conditions of capitalist modernity in which we live are not sustainable and are leading to increased rather than lessened inequality.
The manifestation of climate injustice
Following the new UN report on climate change and agricultural land use, David S. Williams highlights the effects climate changes will have on communities in informal urban areas.
Waterless scars and pipe dreams in Nairobi
Poor Nairobi residents pay close to four times more for water that is much less clean, adequate or consistent.
Is the world ready to support a Green New Deal for Africa?
The Green New Deal is surely the United States’ most ambitious vision for climate justice to date. But the climate crisis is a global one and Africa is Ground Zero.
The question of our time
Ending the capitalist war against nature begins with eco-socialist perspectives and actions.
Gutting the public sector serves no one
Structural Adjustment Programs, implemented by the World Bank and IMF in developing countries, leave the administrative state especially unequipped to deal with climate change.
Cyclone Idai and climate justice
Beyond immediate disaster relief, sustainable global responses to climate change require greater and more predictable funding to strengthen the resilience of the planet's most vulnerable regions.
Six myths about electronic waste in Agbogbloshie, Ghana
The documentary Welcome to Sodom gets most of its facts wrong about the so-called "largest electronic waste dump in the world."
The fragility of the Mozambican state in the face of climate change
As Cyclone Idai swept across Mozambique, it encountered a state weakened by an extractivist development model and captured by global capital, leaving ordinary Mozambicans exposed.
The role of indigenous activism on climate change in Africa
Discussions on the global climate crisis tend to ignore the role that Africans are playing at the leading edge in the fight against climate change.
Cape Town’s water woes are the norm for the city’s black residents
Large parts of Cape Town have always been like cities elsewhere on the continent, and not an exception.
The crisis around Lake Chad
The world's most extensive humanitarian crises is currently playing out in northeastern Nigeria and around Lake Chad.
File Under Climate Change: What if Malawi has to cope with another severe flood
In the year 2000, the citizens of Mozambique suffered a severe flood event. Hundreds died, and
What’s Driving the Violence Against Latin American Environmentalists?
It was three days before Christmas in 1988. Much of the world—following a blisteringly hot summer—had
Fighting Poverty, Environmental Activism, and Lessons from Nelson Mandela
Kumi Naidoo, the first African head of Greenpeace International on how the world could best do justice to Mandela.
Change TV
Via @Ryan Fortune: Clip from Change a new South African TV series about environmental politics in the
Extreme Makeover
So Marthinus van Schalkwyk, the last leader of the racist National Party (that was the party