Subjects Archives: Climate Change

Every year, we are told the latest summer of climate disaster will finally be a wake-up call.

A lot of contemporary scientific views are essentially dialectical. They don’t use that language.

For far too long environmental issues have been seen as the preserve of the middle classes, but as the recent heatwave shows, climate change impacts us all, and the poor and most vulnerable suffer the most, finds Terina Hine.

If you want to know how many lives our rulers are willing to sacrifice to defend the fossil fuel industry, you could start by looking at Europe.

The dictionary tells us ‘pragmatic’ means: ‘dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations’.

Ecological science turned toward struggle must be intimately associated with the class struggle.

At least 60,000 people have evacuated eastern Washington as uncontrolled wildfires destroy hundreds of homes and continue spreading around Spokane. The emergency has prompted a statewide disaster declaration while smoke and elevated fire risks affect much of the western United States.

We must push back against ideological containment that blocks the development of rebellious thinking and movements of resistance.

It’s said that Nero fiddled while Rome burned.

A recent report by the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) has warned that we are entering an era of global water bankruptcy.

“It is the most painful manifestation of a climate emergency that is making… wildfires more voracious and heatwaves more frequent, and as a result our land more vulnerable,” said Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.

A capstone on a portrait of policy failure.

As extreme heat intensifies across Indian cities, access to cooling, shade, and climate protection is becoming deeply unequal, exposing how urban heat disproportionately burdens low-income communities and informal workers.

In less than two months, Europe has been hit by three heatwaves that are exceptional in terms of their early onset, intensity, duration and geographical extent.

“This heatwave is a dress rehearsal… they are getting more frequent, stronger and lasting longer. Every summer we fail to prepare for them is a summer we pay for in lives.”

These toys of the ultrarich are environmentally destructive and multiplying fast. They should not exist.

At the Marxism 2026 conference in Toronto last month, Ian Angus spoke at a release event for his new book, Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System, out now from Monthly Review Press.

Fire survivors say using prediction markets to gamble on wildfire is “morally reprehensible.”

IT IS RARE that a single scientific paper shapes how people think about a challenge as daunting as climate change. But one, known as “Wedges,” published 22 years ago by researchers at Princeton University, told an irresistible story. 

These two conflicts, the aerial and the environmental, are interconnected. Both reflect a struggle for survival shaped by a Pakistani state that has prioritized military spending over water security, geopolitical interests over ecological planning, and the interests of large landowners over those of small farmers.