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  • Monthly Review Essays
  • Electricity generation accounts for 25 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, making it the second-largest source of U.S. emissions behind only the transportation sector.

    Don’t look to EPA to save us!

    Originally published: System Change Not Climate Change on July 1, 2022 by Ted Franklin (more by System Change Not Climate Change)  | (Posted Jul 07, 2022)

    The 51-year-old agency has been losing both power and credibility over recent decades, and SCOTUS’s recent ruling undermines it even more.

  • COP-out 26

    COP-out 26

    Originally published: System Change Not Climate Change on November 1, 2021 (more by System Change Not Climate Change)  |

    Marxist economist Michael Roberts shares his take on the Glasgow climate talks—what is on and what is not on the agenda.

  • 11th Grader Zenile Ngcame of Masiphumelele High School raises her fist during a 2019 protest for action against climate change outside Parliament in Cape Town.

    Book Review: ‘A People’s Green New Deal’

    Originally published: System Change Not Climate Change on October 16, 2021 by Dave Jones (more by System Change Not Climate Change)  | (Posted Oct 27, 2021)

    In this book Ajl covers most of the big questions facing rational, ecosocialist design: nationalization vs localism, modernization vs degrowth, techno-scientific solutions vs indigenous knowledge.

  • Cryptocurrency mining can require banks of many thousands of computers — and the tremendous amounts of electricity they use.

    Cryptocurrency: a new and dangerous climate disruptor

    Originally published: System Change Not Climate Change on October 12, 2021 by Maura Stephens and Karen Edelstein (more by System Change Not Climate Change)  | (Posted Oct 14, 2021)

    The get-rich-quick scheme, banned in China and elsewhere, is invading U.S. communities unchecked, posing as an “equalizing, democratizing” currency. It’s not.

  • The Fires This Time and Their Implications for Ecosocialists

    The fires this time and their implications for ecosocialists

    Originally published: System Change Not Climate Change on August 12, 2018 by Richard Smith (more by System Change Not Climate Change)  | (Posted Aug 16, 2018)

    “Deindustrialization.” That’s a word you virtually never hear in the debate around global warming. Not surprising. It’s a word that’s loaded with negative implications: economic collapse, mass layoffs, falling living standards.

Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • Honor the Vietnamese, Not Those Who Killed Them
    Michael D. Yates A Vietnamese stamp depicting two Vietnamese resistance fighters shooting down a US Army helicopter.

    Only the courage of those who opposed the war, including the soldiers who did so at great risk, should be respected.

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