The Camp Fire started under conditions of critically high wind, low relative humidity, and dry fuels. Nevertheless, numerous aspects of the fire itself, the response, and the aftermath point to the pressing need to replace the capitalist system with one that is democratically-controlled and run for human needs. Climate…
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By James N and Magenna B Members of the NYC-DSA Ecosocialist Working Group The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released a report stating that “limiting global warming to 1.5° C would require rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society” over the next 12…
By: Tom Pike I dream of a world where every roof has solar panels, every basement has rainwater basins, every community has free heating and cooling, every vehicle is public, every dam is a battery, and every human is free. This makes me an ecosocialist. But, to the sometime frustration…
Written By: Ted Franklin | originally posted 9/18/18 on SCNCC “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line.” —W.E.B. Du Bois Shortly before protesters gathered around the world on the eve of the Global Climate Action Summit, an ecosocialist friend commented on the pointlessness of…
Historically marginalized communities in the U.S. are not only first and worst impacted by climate pollution, they are also largely last and least likely to reap the benefits of new clean energy and energy efficiency measures in municipalities around the country. Portland, Oregon is exhibit A for this reality.…
WHY ECOSOCIALISM? A DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST PERSPECTIVE By: System Change Not Climate Change co-founder, author, and DSA member Richard Smith Here’s the problem: We live on a planet with finite resources. But we live in an economic system, capitalism, which is based on infinite growth. In the 19th century, when…
You might have heard about Providence DSA’s #NationalizeGrid campaign on Twitter or seen this Jacobin article about our effort to evict Rhode Island’s shareholder-owned monopoly utility, National Grid, and to bring our state’s grid under public ownership. Since then, there have been challenges—and some exciting developments which we’re…