Climate Crisis

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Climate Action Pretense at COP26
17 Nov 2021
Joe Biden’s presence at COP26 was a photo opportunity giving the impression that he is fighting the climate crisis. But the U.S.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
COP26: Greenwashing and Plutocratic Misadventures
17 Nov 2021
For all the policy failures of COP26 it may actually be an inflection point in history -- a point where social and political conditions force a transformation of consciousness and politics that
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Industrial Nations Value Capitalism Over People at Global Climate Conference
17 Nov 2021
Inaction on the climate crisis is to be expected when capital is valued more than humanity.
Monthly Review Online
COP26 Was a Failure But the People's Alternative Can Still Be a Success
17 Nov 2021
COP26 ended the way climate summits always do, with promises for change from countries which have every intention of keeping the status quo.
Rishika Pardikar
Behind the Scenes at COP26: Developing Countries Fume Over U.S. Pressure to Alter Climate Finance Terms
17 Nov 2021
Rich capitalist nations use a variety of means to escape paying compensation to the Global South for climate change damage. The outcome at COP26 was no different in this regard.
Steve D. Whitaker
So Said, Not So Easily Done
17 Nov 2021
The island nations of the Caribbean are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
Basav Sen
We’re About to Pass Up a Generational Opportunity to Stem the Climate Crisis
17 Nov 2021
The Build Back Better program isn't just just inadequate on climate. It will have disastrous consequences if there is no active mass movement to counter its provisions.
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
Building on Victories for a Stronger Climate Justice Movement
22 Jul 2020
The global depression has fossil fuel corporations reeling, but only a people’s movement can take away their power to poison the planet.
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
Dancing in the streets…
02 Oct 2019
“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible”—Albert Einstein
BAR Poet-in-Resident Raymond Nat Turner
Save the Children..from maturity
25 Sep 2019
Why do I cry when I see sixteen year-olds Fearless and wise beyond their years, wielding swords of science—slaying share- holders’ senators and clean-coal