Climate

What Will Our Climate-Ravaged World Look Like by 2049?
An author imagines how our lives will have changed in 30 years—and what we will have lost.
Meera Subramanian

How To Bury the Fossil Fuel Industry
We need to halt subsidies, enforce stricter regulations and bring fossil fuel corporations under public control.
Kate Aronoff

Making the Green New Deal Work for Workers
A true just transition means robust training, guaranteed jobs and pensions for fossil fuel industry workers.
Jeremy Brecher

The Green New Deal Must Have a Zero Waste Policy
Disrupting the extractivist logic of capitalism is crucial to addressing climate change.
Kali Akuno

How To Build the Zero-Carbon Economy
The Green New Deal sets an ambitious goal. Here’s how to get there.
Winona LaDuke

How Trade Agreements Stand in the Way of an International Green New Deal
To reduce emissions abroad, the U.S. must renegotiate its trade agreements.
Basav Sen

We Produce Too Much Food. The Green New Deal Can Stop This.
Overproduction spurs environmental degradation while the poor get left behind.
Eric Holt-Giménez
Announcing In These Times’ New Agreement with the National Writers Union
Freelance contributors are essential to the quality and success of In These Times and independent media, and this agreement is one way to demonstrate their value to our publication and our commitment to transparency.
For more information about the National Writers Union, visit nwu.org.
Read the full agreement, which reaffirms a floor for the rates of our freelance editorial content, as well as our current rates (which are higher) and submissions guidelines below.