May 2019 Volume 43, Issue 05

May 2019

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Viewpoint

A Path to Democratic Socialism Means a Path To Climate Justice Thea N. Riofrancos

We Don’t Have Time to End Capitalism—But Growth Can Still Be Green. Tobita Chow

We Can’t Beat Climate Change Under Capitalism. Socialism Is the Only Way. Ashley Dawson

Why We Devoted an Entire Issue to Climate Change Dayton Martindale

Feature

What Will Our Climate-Ravaged World Look Like by 2049? Meera Subramanian

How To Bury the Fossil Fuel Industry Kate Aronoff

Making the Green New Deal Work for Workers Jeremy Brecher

The Green New Deal Must Have a Zero Waste Policy Kali Akuno

How To Build the Zero-Carbon Economy Winona LaDuke

How Trade Agreements Stand in the Way of an International Green New Deal Basav Sen

We Produce Too Much Food. The Green New Deal Can Stop This. Eric Holt-Giménez

Electric Companies Won’t Go Green Unless the Public Takes Control Johanna Bozuwa and Gar Alperovitz

Fossil Fuel Companies Are Enlisting Police to Crack Down on Protesters Sarah Lazare and Simon Davis-Cohen

Dispatch

Across the World, Youth Are Striking for Their Right to a Livable Planet Ari Bee

Public Banking Can Fund the Zero-Carbon Economy Aaron Fernando

Hawai‘i’s Managed Retreat Proposal Offers an Early Model for Relocation—At a Cost Alex Lubben

Culture

Thirty Years Ago, In These Times Predicted Our Climate Future In These Times Editors

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

Electric Companies Won’t Go Green Unless the Public Takes Control

Private electric utilities are an obstacle to climate justice. Here’s how to build alternatives.

Johanna Bozuwa and Gar Alperovitz

Fossil Fuel Companies Are Enlisting Police to Crack Down on Protesters

An analysis by In These Times found, in at least seven states, the oil industry has backed critical infrastructure bills that criminalize pipeline protests.

Sarah Lazare and Simon Davis-Cohen

Thirty Years Ago, In These Times Predicted Our Climate Future

A 1989 article sketched out a worst-case vision of the future. Things got even worse than we thought.

In These Times Editors

A Path to Democratic Socialism Means a Path To Climate Justice

Through ecosocialism, we can fight climate change and extreme inequality at the same time.

Thea N. Riofrancos

We Don’t Have Time to End Capitalism—But Growth Can Still Be Green.

Growth, energy use and emissions are historically linked, but this trend could end with mass investment in renewables and energy efficiency.

We Can’t Beat Climate Change Under Capitalism. Socialism Is the Only Way.

The changes needed to avert environmental catastrophe are incompatible with capitalism.

Across the World, Youth Are Striking for Their Right to a Livable Planet

The student-led international Youth Climate Strike movement demands that politicians support the Green New Deal.

Public Banking Can Fund the Zero-Carbon Economy

Private banks have been underwriting the expansion of the fossil fuel industry for years. It’s time for a public model.

Why We Devoted an Entire Issue to Climate Change

The most ambitious climate proposal ever seen on Capitol Hill is a call to action. We need to answer the call.

Dayton Martindale

Hawai‘i’s Managed Retreat Proposal Offers an Early Model for Relocation—At a Cost

As seas rise, middle- and working-class Hawaiians worry they’ll be forced out of their homes, while the rich rebuild.

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