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The Real Reason the Climate Movement Has Failed

By Erik Curren | August 28, 2019

Abolish Oil Now book cover

My new book, Abolish Oil Now, will talk about why the climate movement has failed and what we can do instead to win. If you think that climate change is turning out to be worse than anyone had thought, it's not hard to find people who agree with you. Just check out some recent headlines: "Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change" says Scientific … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate Tagged With: slavery

To Fight Climate Change, We Need an Apollo Program for Politics, Not Technology

By Erik Curren | July 22, 2019

Apollo 11 blast off

Apollo 11 lifts off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 16, 1969. The mission's success flipped the American public from skeptics to fans of the space program. The climate movement needs its own Apollo 11 moment to build public support today. Photo: Wikipedia public domain. "If we want to tackle climate change, we can," writes Apollo Program historian Charles … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate Tagged With: Apollo Program

Should we Pay Exxon to Leave Oil in the Ground?

By Erik Curren | July 1, 2019

Slaves receiving news of emancipation in British West Indies

Today’s movement to abolish fossil fuels can learn from two different paths that the British and American governments took to abolish slavery in the 19th century, one peaceful and the other violent. Image: slaveryimages.org. This article is the second in a series that compares today's fight for climate solutions with the successful movement to abolish slavery in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate, Transition Tagged With: ExxonMobil, Richard Barker, Slave Labor

The Fight against Climate Change Must Become the New Abolitionism

By Erik Curren | June 17, 2019

South Carolina Emancipation Day 1863

There's no moral comparison between humans who suffered in slavery and molecules of fossil fuels. But the abolition movement of the nineteenth century may hold the key to unblocking climate action today. Image: slaveryimages.org. The planet continues to fry. Yet, America is pumping more fossil fuel than it has in decades. And the U.S. government does nothing to slow the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate, Energy Tagged With: Bill McKibben, Naomi Klein, Slave Labor

Hurricane Harvey, We Yawn in your Direction

By Lindsay Curren | September 7, 2017

Hurricane Irma

And Irma, we don't really give a crap about you, either. Water, Water, Everywhere Twenty-seven TRILLION gallons of water dumped on Southeast Texas in six days? That's what the various reports say. And we say, "Big whoop!" Wild-Westy, pavement-obsessedy Houston essentially destroyed, molded, and steeped in a toxic stew from chemical plants gone kablooey while the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate, Energy Tagged With: activism, clean energy, climate change, community organizing, economy, energy policy, global climate disruption, local economy, pollution, relocalization

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