https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to Environment en https://politicalresearch.org/2024/12/13/what-movement-infrastructure Cloee Cooper speaks with three movement leaders—Alex Tom, Meena Jagannath, and Vince Warren—about rising authoritarianism, successful resistance strategies, and the future of Left organizing. Fri, 13 Dec 2024 01:19:32 EST Cloee Cooper 1e35e1e5-0d1d-4f5d-affd-94ecb455bb21 https://politicalresearch.org/2024/06/27/big-oil-wants-exploit-legal-system-crush-protest-dissent-we-cannot-let-it-win The political stakes are high for the oil and gas industry, which is desperate to preserve its dominance amid cascading environmental policy shifts, and ever more visible, social and economic effects of climate change. Thu, 27 Jun 2024 09:12:02 EDT Andres Chang 7e7ac5ad-fdf5-4db1-a905-ce9a33a2fbb7 https://politicalresearch.org/2024/06/06/entwined-geographies-white-nationalism-and-climate-denialism-laura-pulido Koki interviews Laura Pulido, who studies race, environmental justice, and cultural memory. They discuss the intersection of racial and climate denialism, and how these realms of politics, understanding, and identity buttress one another. Thu, 06 Jun 2024 03:00:00 EDT Political Research Associates 49d2000a-638c-4817-827a-e164f7655da9 https://politicalresearch.org/2024/06/03/business-usual-right-wing-climate-realism This excerpt from Ajay Singh Chaudhary’s book, The Exhausted of the Earth, discusses the Right’s “climate realism” and who benefits from the extractive economic system that fuels climate change. Mon, 03 Jun 2024 01:32:59 EDT Ajay Singh Chaudhary a37cf8dd-b9d3-4493-b05c-c1d7b189df6d https://politicalresearch.org/2023/11/16/distorting-climate-crisis-far-right-environmentalism-alex-amend Listen to this episode of Inform Your Resistance where host Koki Mendis and guest Alex Amend discuss the rise of far-right environmentalism. It is an ideological framework weaponizing environmental concerns to propagate nativist and reactionary politics. Thu, 16 Nov 2023 04:28:35 EST Political Research Associates 80c09692-0148-4f44-b049-235d54ba19ee https://politicalresearch.org/2022/07/19/reconsidering-reparations A Q&A with author Dr. Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on his book Reconsidering Reparations, and how climate justice intersects with racial justice efforts. Tue, 19 Jul 2022 11:32:25 EDT Zavi Kang Engles 041702f9-2c7c-4642-9518-e88d5d76c119 https://politicalresearch.org/2022/04/28/white-borders A Q&A with Reece Jones on his book White Borders, and the close relationship between White supremacy and the anti-immigration movement. Thu, 28 Apr 2022 01:50:13 EDT Shane Burley 95a2bd5e-386c-4248-b9cf-d44cb7ac9f63 https://politicalresearch.org/2021/12/17/pras-year-books From fighting White Evangelical Racism to searching for A Wider Type of Freedom, here’s what PRA’s been reading in 2021. Fri, 17 Dec 2021 11:01:35 EST Political Research Associates d3df2c73-ad57-497c-b711-679b41ad4f69 https://politicalresearch.org/2021/11/12/white-skin-black-fuel A Q&A with Author Andreas Malm on his book Black Skin, White Fuel and the close, historical and contemporary ties between the Far Right, White supremacy, and the fossil fuel industry. Fri, 12 Nov 2021 10:15:10 EST Zavi Kang Engles 9625f61c-e20f-4b0b-b977-c86d39853ea4 https://politicalresearch.org/2021/04/23/arc-history-bends-towards-climate-crisis On 3.11.2021, PRA convened a panel of organizers and experts to reflect on the biggest hurdles ahead as we race to reduce greenhouse gas emissions before the end of the decade. Fri, 23 Apr 2021 12:09:07 EDT Political Research Associates 87e53c1e-dfa6-4d70-85a1-323f0f9abfd8 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/02/10/dispatches-rhodian-shore-tough-love-letter-religious-studies When writing as critical scholars of religion about the impacts and role of religion in society we need to broaden our remit, and must do so quickly. Let me explain why. It’s probably best to start with environmental history, thus… Wed, 10 Feb 2021 12:27:30 EST Todd LeVasseur 0adf051c-302e-4025-867d-749cc2b1fb7a https://politicalresearch.org/2020/07/09/blood-and-vanishing-topsoil The devaluing of human life—particularly of populations seen as inferior—in order to protect the environment viewed as essential to White identity is at the core of Far Right environmentalism and ecofascist thought. Thu, 09 Jul 2020 12:31:50 EDT Alex Amend c525194d-e63d-4204-a14d-6f23e6101411 https://politicalresearch.org/2019/12/19/framing-environmental-activism-terrorism Calls to treat environmental defenders like terrorists enable more surveillance and violence, putting activists at risk while protecting those profiting from ecological destruction. Thu, 19 Dec 2019 04:53:58 EST Elizabeth King 27bc58de-082c-48c5-91c2-3c55d4315f75 https://politicalresearch.org/2017/06/21/rights-relationship-climate-denial In 2015, the United States and China – the two biggest emitters of greenhouses gases in the world – were among 195 countries to ratify the Paris climate accord with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Wed, 21 Jun 2017 12:29:25 EDT Erin Kelly 3026d9b5-1266-43cb-9233-f991d644583b https://politicalresearch.org/2015/11/02/policies-make-people-disappear Rep. Richard H. Baker, a Republican congressman from Baton Rouge, was quoted as telling lobbyists in September 2005, “We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn’t do it, but God did.” Mon, 02 Nov 2015 01:06:22 EST Dani McClain 0fde324f-8e62-45ec-bc6e-da750c5779b2 https://politicalresearch.org/2015/08/29/long-hurricane-10-years-later The storm waters may have receded, but as Darwin BondGraham wrote for us five years ago, the tidal wave of Economic Right policies has yet to retreat. Sat, 29 Aug 2015 01:27:38 EDT Darwin BondGraham 9d20ebcf-586e-455a-9a7f-d4380ef305ce https://religiondispatches.org/2015/04/22/elephant-orphans-and-ecological-spiritualities-earth-day-reflection It is a mild Kenyan day. With temperatures in the 70s, I smile with some Lutheran guilt because I know I am missing the worst of Minnesota’s frosty brunt of the so-called “polar vortex” (climate change in action). At this moment, instead of curling up with blankets… Wed, 22 Apr 2015 09:00:11 EDT Jacob J. Erickson e66353f0-d859-4f30-a1a5-af2582c056bb https://politicalresearch.org/2013/10/28/seduction-and-betrayal-perils-arizonas-business-climate Radical journalist Andrew Kopkind once quipped that Arizona and its capital, Phoenix, were “at the mercy of [their] own myths.” That was as true in 1965 as it is today. Local promoters have long credited central air conditioning with making the Valley of the Sun livable. The Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, in particular, has promoted hot, arid Central Arizona as “the air-conditioning capital of the world.” But no matter what anyone tells you, industry did not come to Arizona—and Phoenix did not sprawl—because of air conditioning. Mon, 28 Oct 2013 12:57:28 EDT Elizabeth Tandy Shermer 6670d434-21dc-4b70-8083-6ed2a879655c https://politicalresearch.org/2013/07/31/creationists-get-influential-positions-texas-science-textbook-review It looks like the Lone Star State’s reputation as a hotbed of anti-science fanaticism is about to be reinforced. At least six creationists/”intelligent design” proponents succeeded in getting invited to review high school biology textbooks that publishers have submitted for adoption in Texas this year. Wed, 31 Jul 2013 03:50:00 EDT Dan Quinn 0548cb91-d749-4719-b815-c18f70dc9a01 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/04/01/francis-now-and-then-ecological-politics-saints Today we are a great distance from the ecological situation of medieval Italy. With the aid of capital and industry, we humans have become so practiced, and coldly efficient, in matters of animal domestication that we now have health insurance on offer for wealthy domestic pets while billions of other creatures in our care are heedlessly slaughtered. Our domestication practices are a mess. Mon, 01 Apr 2013 04:43:18 EDT Beatrice Marovich 95d25323-0a71-4b59-aab9-c6613c815dd1 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/11/26/superhuman-spirituality-ang-lees-life-pi “I have a story that will make you believe in God,” an elderly man tells the narrator of Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi (2001). This is the opening of a very tall tale, one that’s designed to chasten the reader’s skepticism. Mon, 26 Nov 2012 01:29:58 EST Beatrice Marovich 3d82f36b-b6fc-4664-9780-c90f263f81a0 https://politicalresearch.org/2012/04/01/michigan-operational-integration-centers-moic-response-environmental-threat What’s the scorecard on the Michigan Operational Integration Center’s ability to combine information from different sources when the threat is not terrorism but environmental disaster? Sun, 01 Apr 2012 02:30:14 EDT Eartha Melzer 8b37a30b-2e07-4c82-910e-e3f45a7f07c4 https://politicalresearch.org/2010/11/01/long-hurricane Five years after Hurricane Katrina and the “federal flood,” as locals call the disaster, the new New Orleans is as much the product of decades of antiwelfare ideology in local and national governments as it is of the unique circumstances of the disaster. Mon, 01 Nov 2010 06:30:05 EDT Darwin BondGraham 90abf689-878e-465d-ab3c-6647d4d8e4ba https://politicalresearch.org/2010/11/01/beyond-green-jobs Everyone wants to be green. Fossil fuel companies tout their commitments to the environment, with BP sporting its green and yellow flower logo and Chevron scooping up a Green Apple award for promoting public-school energy efficiency. In 2009 Exxon-Mobil got itself named Forbes magazine’s Green Company of the Year for stepping up its natural gas production. Mon, 01 Nov 2010 05:37:51 EDT Julie Quiroz-Martinez f0d0ebf0-d5c2-4f15-bf28-bc927c0807a1 https://religiondispatches.org/2010/05/16/losing-old-gods-finding-nature Ten questions for Bron Taylor, whose latest book Dark Green Religion holds that traditional religions are gradually being replaced by more sensory forms of spirituality which promote more sensible, ecologically adaptive behaviors. Sun, 16 May 2010 01:08:07 EDT Bron Taylor 8aeaae26-a855-4a17-876a-8880f4e692bd