Colin Murphy

Colin Murphy is a climate and ecological justice organizer and writer. An active member of the Democratic Socialists of America’s Ecosocialist Working Group (DSA-EWG), he contributed to the group’s Guiding Principles for an Ecosocialist Green New Deal and is actively organizing ecosocialists across the country towards a radical Green New Deal for food and agriculture. Colin is a co-chair of the East Bay DSA’s Green New Deal Committee. He currently resides in his home region of the San Francisco Bay Area/Unceded Ohlone territory, where he has also been active in movements for racial justice.

Atacama Desert

The Meaning of Cataclysm

The logical endpoint then is to leverage the word cataclysm in these times, because only that word captures the magnitude with which our species is fundamentally altering the world in ways that will have profound, lasting, and potentially fatal impacts for humanity as a whole.

May 12, 2020