The catastrophic wildfires that have engulfed Los Angeles are the city’s worst ever fires — and potentially its worst ever disaster of any kind. Spurred by drought and the fierce seasonal Santa Ana winds, uncontrollable wildfires broke out across the city and continued on to January 9 with no signs of stopping. Over 130,000 people… Continue reading LA fires are an unnatural disaster
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The climate crisis & socialist strategy
Crisis, economic and otherwise Typically, we think of capitalism’s crises as economic, but of course, they can also be environmental. As the ecologist Jason Moore’s work has shown, our epoch’s crisis is not the first time a regime of capital accumulation has run up against environmental limits and has been forced to adjust itself accordingly.… Continue reading The climate crisis & socialist strategy
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