Hot & Bothered Podcast: Why Food Doesn’t Cure Hunger, with Raj Patel
With half of the planet on lockdown, many people around the world have been suddenly confronted with an issue they’re not used to thinking about in political terms: food.
With half of the planet on lockdown, many people around the world have been suddenly confronted with an issue they’re not used to thinking about in political terms: food.
Still hot… still bothered… and now facing a global crisis rivaled only by the climate emergency itself. The first episode in a new season of the Hot & Bothered podcast.
We are back for a new series of the Hot & Bothered podcast, with weekly episodes on climate politics in the time of coronavirus. But we won’t be able to do it without your support.
We can only decarbonize fast and reduce social inequalities at the same time with a new political economy.
A Green New Deal needs to translate lofty ideas into specific interventions. How quickly can we decarbonize our energy grid, how do we overcome the institutional obstacles of the American political system, and how do we put frontline communities in the lead?
The coronavirus crisis has made clear that care and life-making work are the essential work of society.
It’s impossible to contemplate a Green New Deal without sharpening our understanding of the original New Deal—its labor movement, its ambitious experiments, and its racial inequalities.
What do political mobilization and economic reconstruction look like in the face of a climate emergency?
The first in a four-part series on how we win a Green New Deal.
The Green New Deal is a wager that more democracy, rather than less, is the way to tackle climate change.
XR promised to transcend politics as we know it. Yet politics has a stubborn way of catching up with those who disavow it.
The Green New Deal will need to be subject to constant vigilance and pressure—from experts who understand exactly what it will take, and from social movements that have decades of experience bearing the brunt of false climate solutions.
The Green New Deal will require us to revolutionize the design professions, untethering them from the whims of private clients and capitalists and reorienting their work around movements for housing justice, environmental justice, and workers.
The fires in the Amazon are within the historical average. That’s why we should worry.
Bruno Latour’s flirtations with the paranoid style of climate politics are a summation of ideas long in the making—ideas that those attempting to preserve a planet shared by all will have to take into account, but will also have to reach beyond.
In the Global North we often act as if our future will be a warmer version of today: liberal capitalism, plus flood insurance, minus coral reefs. That future is a fantasy.