The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has released a comprehensive and alarming report detailing the extent to which humanity is destroying Earth’s ecosystems and biodiversity, the life we share this planet with and our very life support system. The report states that the “culprits are, in…
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Humankind has reached a moment of existential crisis. Human activity is causing disastrous climate disruption and Earth’s sixth mass extinction event, triggering critical losses of biodiversity. We are already locked in for global warming that will have catastrophic effects, and we are on a slippery path to our own extinction.…
The DSA Ecosocialist Working Group stands in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en land defenders and their ongoing blockade of TransCanada’s Coastal GasLink pipeline, which would traverse through unceded Wet’suwet’en territory. On December 14, 2018, the Supreme Court of British Columbia ordered an injunction to grant TransCanada access to this Wet’suwet’en lands. However,…
Comrades, We’ve recently seen the biggest breakthrough in US climate politics in a long time—and with California on fire and the release of the alarming IPCC report on 1.5°C warming, which says we have just 12 years to massively transform the global economy, it couldn’t have come sooner. In their…
The DSA National Climate & Environmental Justice Working Group Steering Committee has heard the call from incarcerated people across the nation, and has voted to endorse the National Prison Strike beginning on August 21st, 2018. We recognize the inherent inhumanity of putting people in cages, but also emphasize that…
Earth Day Must Be Anti-Capitalism Day Originally Posted April 22nd, 2018 Joint Statement of the Climate & Environmental Justice Working Group and the Democratic Socialists for Medicare for All Campaign Committee To truly affirm a commitment to environmental stewardship this Earth Day, we must oppose the destructive and inhuman…
Statement on Recent Climate Events & Capitalism Originally posted September, 2017 This past month, Houston flooded and the Western United States burned. Earthquakes shook nations while hurricanes ravaged Texas, Florida, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Hurricane Irma, the strongest hurricane to form in the Atlantic Basin outside of the Caribbean Sea…