Ten Little Euphemisms: What Do They Portend for Climate Policy?
By Joel Stronberg, illuminem
Like an environmental impact study, a federal rulemaking can take several years to complete. Legal challenges can extend the overall process by years.
Tag: American politics
The People vs. Petrocracy
By Stan Cox, City Lights Books
Whether it’s carried out by a local movement such as the L.A. Bus Riders Union or continent-spanning drives like the Native campaigns against Big Oil and Gas, no single effort can snuff out fossil fuel extraction and consumption on its own. The mulitplication of such efforts is therefore essential.
Climate Policy in a Republican World
By Joel Stronberg, illuminem
It now appears that Republicans can at least talk about climate change in non-derisive terms. However, as evidenced by the proposed policy platform, the GOP has hardly changed its tune. Only the lyrics are different.
Exit Stage Left: What Might It Mean for US Climate Policy
By Joel Stronberg, The JBS Group
Staffers are to politicians as canaries are to coal miners. When they stop singing, there’s a problem. Key Biden staffers are beginning to leave the administration.
Will Joe Save the Union and What It Means for US Climate Policy
By Joel Stronberg, illuminem
The most powerful Joe in Washington has some decisions to make. No, no, not that Joe. Although he too has some critical choices confronting him. However, it’s a tale best told another day.
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.
Climate Policy – It’s Not About the Science
By Joel Stronberg, illuminem
In the near term, any legislative action by Congress and President Biden in support of clean energy—possibly the broader environment—will likely be brokered by Joe Manchin and be all about the politics.
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.
Why Are Anger and Social Violence Increasing In America?
By Dick Rauscher, Dick Rauscher blog
We humans use our minds to create the world we live in, so the better we understand how our minds work, the more successful we will be in creating the world we live in….and more importantly, the world we want to create.
The deep divide between the American people and mainstream politics and media
By Richard Eckersley, Resilience.org
To respond effectively to this situation, political debate needs to incorporate and reflect all the complexity and depth of today’s challenges, to encourage the conceptual space for a transformation in our worldview, beliefs and values as profound as any in human history.
Another grab-bag bill: What might it mean for US climate policy?
By Joel Stronberg, illuminem
With all the guff going on in Washington these days, it’s rather remarkable that Republicans and Democrats have managed—on occasion—actually to accomplish something positive. Standouts over the last twelve months include the pandemic relief bills and the bipartisan infrastructure framework.
Should we disrupt the Democratic Party or try to take it over?
By Mark Engler, Paul Engler, Waging Nonviolence
When trying to figure out how they should interact with political parties, social movements face a common challenge: Should they push from without or seek to operate from within?