November 5, 2013 By, Kristen Sheeran, Noah Enelow, Jeremy Brecher, and Brendan Smith The Keystone XL pipeline has been touted as a means to address America’s jobs crisis. But how does its job creation compare to other possible projects? This study compares the jobs that would be created by the KXL pipeline to… Read More »
THE POWER OF THE POWERLESS
October 21, 2013 Original published in TIDAL The 1% possesses the lion’s share of the world’s wealth; they dominate the world’s political systems; they command armies of heavily armed cops and soldiers; their views are propagated by another army of media and academic flacks. Yet we know that social movements and popular upheavals ranging… Read More »
CLIMATE PROTECTION CAN LEARN FROM THE AIDS MOVEMENT
September 25, 2013 LNS’s Jeremy Brecher and AIDS policy expert Kevin Fisher maintain in a new commentary in NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE that governments have ceased any serious individual or collective effort for climate protection. Yet there is no vehicle or venue to draw together scientists combatting climate change with representatives of the billions of… Read More »
A SECOND ECOLOGICAL REVOLUTION?
August 26, 2013 The summer of 1988 was long and hot. One scorching day I casually said to a deliveryman, “Awfully hot.” He responded, “I talk with old-timers who can’t remember anything like it in 60, 70 years.” He continued, “It’s probably this ‘greenhouse effect.’ If you ask me, it’s a warning. All the… Read More »
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