Stan Cox began his career in the U.S. Department of Agriculture and is now the Ecosphere Studies Research Fellow at the Land Institute. Cox is the author of Any Way You Slice It: The Past, Present, and Future of Rationing, Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World (and Finding New Ways to Get Through the Summer) and Sick Planet: Corporate Food and Medicine. His writing about the economic and political roots of the global ecological crisis have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Hartford Courant, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Baltimore Sun, Denver Post, Kansas City Star, Arizona Republic, The New Republic, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Salon, and Dissent, and in local publications spanning 43 U.S. states. In 2012,The Atlantic named Cox their "Readers' Choice Brave Thinker" for his critique of air conditioning. He is based in Salina, Kansas. Stan Cox is on the editorial board of Green Social Thought, and he is also the author of The Green New Deal and Beyond: Ending the Climate Emergency While We Still Can (2020) and the upcoming The Path to a Livable Future: Forging a New Politics to Fight Climate Change, Racism, and the Next Pandemic, both from City Lights Books.
Onslaught of the Oily Authoritarians
By Stan Cox, City Lights Books
The only realistic course is to protect the electoral process despite all its flaws, ensure universal voting rights, and push harder than ever to make this country what it has never been: a multiracial, pluralistic democracy.
The Climate and the Republic, Melting Down in Real Time
By Stan Cox, City Lights Books
The clock is ticking. In the upcoming months, we’ll need to strive for a leap even as we brace ourselves for a slide.
How Not to Cope with Vladimir Putin by Drilling and Pumping
By Stan Cox, TomDispatch
Today, as enthusiasm for a carbon tax wanes, climate proposals like cap-and-ration that directly target the fossil-fuel industry while protecting everyone’s access to energy are gaining broader support.
Four scientists, a few small nations, and making unthinkable climate action possible
By Stan Cox, Larry Edwards, Resilience.org
We have found that among climate scientists and politicians, advocacy for a direct fossil fuel phase-out with adaptation through resource allocation and rationing, is very rare indeed. That’s why we found the Oireachtas hearing so encouraging.
Noam Chomsky says we have no right to gamble with the lives of climate-vulnerable people: Video
By Stan Cox, Resilience.org
Prof. Chomsky has long argued that the roots of the climate emergency, and of our failure to deal with it, reach deep into the capitalist economic system.
To keep fossil carbon out of the air, just stop pulling it out of the Earth
By Stan Cox, Seattle Times
Ending the extraction of fossil fuels from the Earth while achieving material sufficiency, equity and justice would move us a long way toward the more livable future that the people who gathered outside COP26 — along with billions of others around the world — are demanding and are standing ready to create.
The Path to a Livable Future
By Stan Cox, Noam Chomsky, Tom Dispatch
The possibility for a just and sustainable future exists, and there’s plenty that we can do to get there before it’s too late.
The Path to a Livable Future: Excerpt
By Stan Cox, Resilience.org
And, to complete the circle, neither racial justice nor health justice nor environmental justice nor climate justice can be fully secured without turning the existing economy inside out, dedicating it to meeting society’s needs, not feeding the net worth of the plutocrats.