When hitch-hiking, a certain irony is common: Time and time again, the authors' of this post have been picked up by drivers who immediately instruct them that hitch-hiking used to work, but now is impossible. That these conversations were taking place at all would appear to contradict this supposed fact. This is not to say that it is always easy. Roads bar access to their sides for pedestrians ...
6 Thesen zur laufenden Debatte um den Kohleausstieg in Umwelt- & Klimabewegung Die Debatte um den klimapolitisch notwendigen Kohleausstieg wird seit Jahren ohne Ergebnis geführt. Die Politik duckt sich bisher aus Angst vor den Reaktionen aus den betroffenen Regionen weg. Sie ignoriert dabei, dass die jahrelange Verzögerung der aktiven Gestaltung des Strukturwandels die Ausgangslage de...
By Giorgos Kallis A new Left has to be an ecological Left, or it won’t be left at all. Environmental change ‘changes everything’ for the Left too, Naomi Klein argued. Capitalism requires constant expansion, an expansion predicated on exploitation of humans and non-humans, that irreversibly damages the climate. A non-capitalist economy will have to sustain itself while contracting. But how can ...
