Climate Crisis

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…
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Blue (MAGA) In Green (Or, U.S. Bourgeois Environmental Groups Prioritize the Democratic Party Over Environmental Justice Principles)
18 Sep 2024
The Democratic Party markets itself as the party of environmental protection while pursuing policies that are endangering all life on earth. Fossil fuel producers are able to do as they please…
Melissa Garriga
Don’t Let Warmongers Greenwash their Ecocide this Earth Day
24 Apr 2024
The destruction of the environment and acceleration of the climate crisis happen silently under the veil of “national security,” despite the fact that the environmental toll of war is the most…
Aby L. Sène
Western Climate Agenda Goes Against African Development
06 Mar 2024
Carbon and biodiversity offsets are the latest imperialist weapons used against African people and their nations. Self-determination is the key to ecological health for the continent.
Essam Elkorghli
Libya’s disastrous flooding… Causes and hope?
20 Sep 2023
The U.S./NATO destruction of the Libyan state in 2011 was followed unilateral coercive measures, sanctions, which rendered that nation unable to maintain dams which failed during a recent storm.…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Climate Crisis Will End When Capitalism Ends
30 Aug 2023
The climate emergency won't end because of heartfelt pleas to the people and the interests who created the crisis. Ecocide will stop when capitalism ends.
Forrest Palmer
How the Climate Crisis is Most Detrimental to the Black Community
19 Jul 2023
The earth recently experienced its hottest days on record. Here in the U.S. Black people face the worst consequences of the climate crisis.