Revolution or Ruin

Kai Heron and Jodi Dean

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Tsunami Ruins, Japan, 2011. Photo: CC BY 2.0/Yisris. 

Issue #110
June 2020










Notes
1

Mallory Hughes, “The Koala Population Faces an Immediate Threat of Extinction After the Australia Bushfires, New Report Finds,” CNN, March 5, 2020 .

2

Dr. Paul Griffin, The Carbon Majors Database: CDP Carbon Majors Report 2017 .

3

Kendra Pierre-Louis, “Ocean Warming Is Accelerating Faster Than Thought, New Research Finds,” New York Times, January 10, 2019 .

4

Alan Buis, “A Degree of Concern: Why Global Temperatures Matter,” climate.nasa.gov, June 19, 2019 .

5

Jason Samenow, “Debunking the Claim ‘They’ Changed ‘Global Warming’ to ‘Climate Change’ Because Warming Stopped,” Washington Post, January 29, 2018 .

6

“World Faces ‘Climate Apartheid’ Risk, 120 More Million in Poverty: UN Expert,” UN News, June 25, 2019 .

7

Karl Marx, “On the Irish Question.” Available at marxists.org .

8

Molly Moorhead, “Obama Says New Miles of Pipeline Could Stretch Around the Earth,” Politifact, April 23, 2012 .

9

Jem Bendell, “Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy,” July 27, 2018 .

10

Roy Scranton, “Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene,” The Stone (blog), New York Times, November 10, 2013 . Scranton expanded this article into a book: Learning to Die in the Anthropocene (City Lights Publishers, 2015).

11

Jonathan Franzen, “What If We Stopped Pretending?” The New Yorker, September 8, 2019 .

12

David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Tim Duggan Books, 2019), 30.

13

Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth, 30–31.

14

Bill McKibben, “What Exxon Knew About Climate Change,” The New Yorker, September 18, 2015 .

15

Ian Tucker, “David Wallace-Wells: ‘There are many cases of climate hypocrisy,’” The Guardian, August 25, 2019 .

16

Brad Plumer, “Meet the Companies That Are Trying to Profit from Global Warming,” Vox, September 4, 2015 .

17

Noah Gallagher Shannon, “Climate Chaos Is Coming—and the Pinkertons Are Ready,” New York Times Magazine, April 10, 2019 .

18

Plumer, “Meet the Companies.”

19

Brad Plumer, “Why Wall Street Investors and Chinese Firms Are Buying Farmland All Over the World,” Vox, May 15, 2015 .

20

Extinction Rebellion, “Our Demands” .

21

Extinction Rebellion, “Our Demands.”

22

The pamphlet has since been turned into a book .

23

Roger Hallam, “We Are Engaged in the Murder of the World’s Children,” interview by Laura Backes and Raphael Thelen, Der Spiegel, November 22, 2019 .

24

Kuba Shand-Baptiste, “Extinction Rebellion’s Hapless Stance on Class and Race Is a Depressing Block to Its Climate Justice Goal,” Independent, October 15, 2019 .

25

Extinction Rebellion, “Our Demands.”

26

John Bellamy Foster, “On Fire This Time,” Monthly Review, November 1, 2019 .

27

Alyssa Battistoni and Thea Riofrancos, “Bernie Sanders’s Green New Deal Is a Climate Plan for the Many, Not the Few,” Jacobin, August 23, 2019 .

28

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29

See .

30

Jasper Bernes, “Between the Devil and the Green New Deal, April 25, 2019,” Commune, April 25, 2019 .

31

Kali Akuno, “We Have To Make Sure the ‘Green New Deal’ Doesn’t Become Green Capitalism,” interview by Sarah Lazare, In These Times, December 12, 2018 .

32

Max Ajl, “How Much Will the US Way of Life© Have to Change?” Uneven Earth, June 10, 2019 .

33

United Nations Environment Programme, A Global Green New Deal: Policy Brief, March 2009 .

34

Thea Riofrancos, “Plan, Mood, Battlefield – Reflections on the Green New Deal,” Viewpoint, May 16, 2019 .

35

Riofrancos, “Plan, Mood, Battlefield.”

36

Frederick Engels, “On Authority.” Available at marxists.org .

37

Nadezhda Krupskaya, Reminiscences of Lenin, translated by Bernard Isaacs (Haymarket Books, 1960), 293.

38

Kai Heron, “Capitalists Fear the Green New Deal—and For Good Reason,” ROAR, May 8, 2019 .

39

Out of the Woods, “Disaster Communism,” Libcom, May 2014 .

40

Alyssa Battistoni, “States of Emergency,” The Nation, June 21, 2018 ; Patrick Bigger, “Red Terror on the Atmosphere,” Antipode, July 2012 .

41

Jasper Bernes, “The Belly of the Revolution,” in Materialism and the Critique of Energy, ed. Brent Ryan Bellamy and Jeff Diamanti (MCM’, 2018), 358 .

42

Vladimir Lenin, “Can the Bolsheviks Retain State Power?” Available at marxists.org .

43

Ted Nordhaus, “The Empty Radicalism of the Climate Apocalypse,” Issues 35, no. 4 (Summer 2019) .