{"id":324823,"date":"2025-11-30T15:25:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T15:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/activist\/theres-no-quitting-the-climate-fight\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T15:25:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T15:25:34","slug":"theres-no-quitting-the-climate-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=324823","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s No Quitting the Climate Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div id=\"article-title-block_ab632bb09bca5d8a91c4a7a785bd7209\" class=\"article-title \">\n<div class=\"article-title__container\">\n<div class=\"article-title__eyebrow\">\n                            <span class=\"article-title__labels\"><br \/>\n                                        <span class=\"article-title__label\"><br \/>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/subject\/environment\/\">Environment<\/a><br \/>\n                    <\/span><br \/>\n                                                                            <\/span><br \/>\n                                    <span class=\"article-title__label-divider\"> \/ <\/span><br \/>\n                                                                            <span class=\"article-title__date\">November 12, 2025<\/span>\n                                    <\/div>\n<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-the-nation-dek article-title__dek\">\n<p>This is the worst-ever year for climate politics\u2014but the struggle is far from over.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<aside aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ad-block ad siderail-ad float-r-w-3 break-r-4\">\n<p>                                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/advertising-policy\" class=\"ad-policy\" target=\"_blank\">Ad Policy<\/a><br \/>\n                                    <\/aside>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1440\" height=\"907\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/climate-planet-protest-getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-577205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/climate-planet-protest-getty.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/climate-planet-protest-getty-275x173.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/climate-planet-protest-getty-768x484.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/climate-planet-protest-getty-810x510.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/climate-planet-protest-getty-340x215.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/climate-planet-protest-getty-168x106.jpg 168w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/climate-planet-protest-getty-382x240.jpg 382w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/climate-planet-protest-getty-793x500.jpg 793w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\n<p>Protesters stage a \u201cdie-in\u201d during a rally for Climate Justice in Seoul on September 27, 2025.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"credits\">(Jung Yeon-je \/ AFP via Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"is-style-dropcap\">\u201cWe are hurtling toward climate chaos,\u201d writes an international team of 13 leading climate scientists in their \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/bioscience\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/biosci\/biaf149\/8303627\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">State of the Climate Report<\/a>\u201d for 2025, published by the Oxford journal <em>BioScience<\/em>, an annual must-read for anyone who wants a concise and accessible snapshot of deepening catastrophe.<\/p>\n<p>Among this year\u2019s stark headlines is the \u201csignificant weakening\u201d of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current, better known as the Gulf Stream, the collapse of which \u201ccould trigger abrupt and irreversible climate disruptions\u201d and \u201cinitiate cascading tipping events, amplifying the impacts to a catastrophic level\u201d (some of which \u201cmay already be occurring\u201d). Another: the risk of a long-feared \u201chothouse Earth trajectory\u201d (in which global heating becomes unstoppable) appears to be increasing as a result of \u201caccelerated warming, self-reinforcing feedbacks, and tipping points.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report\u2019s opening paragraph cuts to the chase: \u201cThis unfolding emergency stems from failed foresight, political inaction, unsustainable economic systems, and misinformation.\u201d Surging extreme weather disasters globally, it notes, have amounted to more than $18 trillion in damages since 2000. Taken together, the authors write, \u201cThese recent developments emphasize the extreme insufficiency of global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mark the beginning of a grim new chapter for life on Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Allow me to pause and say something personal about how those words land. It\u2019s hard to know what to say anymore about how we might escape our intersecting climate and political catastrophes. It\u2019s always been hard, of course, but after three decades in national journalism\u2014the last 15 years as a climate writer and activist\u2014I struggle with how to keep doing this work in the face of what looks like an impossible situation.<\/p>\n<p>Our present situation consists of a convergence of factors: the growing scientific evidence of accelerating, near-term climate and ecological breakdown, with all the social instability and suffering that come with it; the advances of reactionary political forces\u2014led by fossil capital and its agents from not just the fascist right but also the neoliberal center and center-left\u2014determined to obstruct and delay life-saving action; and, despite some localized wins, the lack of coordinated forces on the left that are sufficiently powerful to counter, much less overthrow, the status quo.<\/p>\n<div id=\"current-issue-block_6558c8fb5085410550f4102fc2062dea\" class=\"current-issue  float-l-w-2\">\n<h4 class=\"current-issue__title\">\n                    Current Issue<br \/>\n            <\/h4>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/issue\/december-2025-issue\/\" class=\"current-issue__cover\"><br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1225cover-1.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of December 2025 Issue\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Perhaps it\u2019s no surprise, then, to detect a scent of resignation in the air. When <em>The New York Times Magazine <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/16\/magazine\/climate-politics-us-world-paris-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tells us<\/a>, not inaccurately, that the world \u201chas soured on climate politics\u201d heading into the 30th annual United Nations climate negotiations, COP30, in Bel\u00e9m, Brazil, a natural response might be, \u201cWell, then, why bother?\u201d After three decades of failed efforts to put the global economy on a path to decarbonization and now 10 years since the vaunted Paris Agreement, international <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/11\/04\/climate\/climate-emissions-united-nations.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ambition<\/a> on climate policy has stalled in the Global North, where it\u2019s most required.<\/p>\n<p>When mega-billionaire donor and self-styled climate sage <a href=\"https:\/\/billmckibben.substack.com\/p\/climate-gates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bill Gates<\/a>, in a now-infamous \u201cmemo,\u201d takes a page from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmog.com\/2025\/11\/05\/bill-gates-donated-climate-denier-bjorn-lomborg-copenhagen-consensus-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fossil fuel lobby<\/a> and instructs us to tamp down the \u201calarmism\u201d because climate change \u201cwill not lead to humanity\u2019s demise\u201d\u2014and thus to shift our focus toward \u201chuman welfare\u201d in the developing world rather than urgent cuts in global fossil fuel emissions (a wildly false \u201cchoice\u201d)\u2014you can hear the cynical laughter in the board rooms of fossil capital and global finance. <em>Thanks, Bill, we were never serious about phasing out fossil fuels anyway.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Gates\u2019s sense of timing was indeed exquisite. The very day he dropped his memo, <em>The Lancet<\/em> reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/oct\/29\/rising-heat-kills-one-person-a-minute-worldwide-lancet-countdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">global heating now kills<\/a> an average of one person per minute. This, <em>The Lancet <\/em>goes on, even as governments subsidized fossil fuels to the tune of $956 billion in 2023 and banks upped their investments in <em>new<\/em> fossil fuel production to $611 billion in 2024, the most in five years\u2014and considerably more than their combined investments in renewable energy.<\/p>\n<p>Also that same day, UN Secretary General <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/oct\/28\/change-course-now-humanity-has-missed-15c-climate-target-says-un-head\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ant\u00f3nio Guterres<\/a> told <em>The Guardian<\/em> that surpassing the Paris Agreement\u2019s goal of 1.5\u00ba C warming is now \u201cinevitable\u201d\u2014indeed we\u2019ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/2025\/05\/29\/15degrees-celsius-world-meteorological-organization\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">already reached<\/a> 1.5\u00ba\u2014with \u201cdevastating consequences,\u201d especially for human welfare in the Global South. At that moment, Category 5 Hurricane Melissa, supercharged by global heating, was bearing down on the people of Jamaica with 185 mph winds and a massive storm surge amplified by sea-level rise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"is-style-dropcap\">Yes, the moment is dark. I haven\u2019t even mentioned the Trump petro-state\u2019s gleeful gutting of US climate policy. Or the fact that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/annals-of-a-warming-planet\/46-billion-years-on-the-sun-is-having-a-moment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stunning growth<\/a> of renewables worldwide, led by China, has barely put a dent in rising global emissions.<\/p>\n<p>As we head toward the end of what may well be the worst-ever year in climate politics, it would be so much easier to declare defeat\u2014as many Democrats and others on the left seem ready to do\u2014and find some other work to do, throw myself into some other fight, one that appears possibly winnable.<\/p>\n<div id=\"cta-block_8075ea5898c93c68ef1f7da1211c53d9\" class=\"cta float-l-w-3\">\n<p>Or one could simply go home, retreat into private life, stock and fortify one\u2019s bunker\u2014literally or figuratively (there are many kinds of bunkers)\u2014and live out one\u2019s days, as best one can, in some small sphere of relative peace and stability, a kind of internal exile. Perhaps some fortunate few (mostly white, mostly comfortable) might even attain a secluded, insular sense of community\u2014even as the world beyond descends into chaos and barbarism from which they have learned to look away.<\/p>\n<p>It would be so much easier. Except for one problem: Such impulses and reveries require the pretense that we live on some other planet, in some other reality. <em>This<\/em> one is sliding fast toward various points of no return, ecologically, politically, and socially\u2014no, not sliding, that\u2019s too passive; being willfully driven beyond them. Once past these points\u2014and we\u2019re already passing some of them\u2014any sort of stable, secure life on this planet becomes increasingly untenable. For a great many, largely invisible to those in the affluent parts of the Global North, it already is. We have reached the point where vast swaths of humanity are at the edge of an abyss.<\/p>\n<p>To acknowledge these basic facts, and then to pretend all of this can be avoided, would be to align with the forces of nihilistic denial and domination\u2014and to become one more willfully blind accomplice.<\/p>\n<p>But for anyone compelled to engage politically in this moment, avoiding the climate fight is not an option. To retreat from climate politics is to retreat from the fundamental material conditions of the world in which all politics must take place. It\u2019s been said many times and in many ways by various <a href=\"https:\/\/naomiklein.org\/this-changes-everything\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">prophets<\/a> of the present juncture: All politics are now climate politics; every election is a climate election.<\/p>\n<p>There is no other world than the one in which the climate system is breaking down before our eyes: The world in which the polar ice caps are collapsing and great ocean currents that determine the weather for billions, from northern Europe to the global tropics, are weakening, approaching critical thresholds. The world in which the oceans are at record temperatures and, still worse, approaching levels of acidification that threat the marine food chain, with unthinkable consequences for all who depend on it. In which the great boreal and tropical forests are burning and, along with vast expanses of arctic permafrost, are becoming sources of greenhouse emissions instead of climate-saving carbon sinks. The world in which the planet\u2019s hydrology has entered a pattern of whiplashing extreme drought and flood. In which heat waves regularly reach lethality in the places where most of humanity lives. In which ever-increasing masses of climate migrants are on the move, and the havens they seek are increasingly cauldrons of political and social instability, if not walled ecofascist fortress states. In which billionaire-funded geoengineering schemes, entailing catastrophic global risks, are now all but inevitable, opening <a href=\"https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/products\/3317-the-long-heat?srsltid=AfmBOoranvnGhbJqnp_edWi_Z5-IQKOc9DWGCWgypLSeLtjfGPbKsGt1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new fronts<\/a> in the climate-justice struggle.<\/p>\n<p>There is no other world. Try to hide from it if you want, but it will only get worse with every gigaton of carbon emitted and every fraction of a degree the planet warms. And at some point, it will get abruptly and inconceivably worse.<\/p>\n<section aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ad fullwidth-ad contained row position-relative ad-block alignfull \">\n    <!--Ad policy starts here--><br \/>\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/advertising-policy\" class=\"mid-ad-policy\">Ad Policy<\/a><br \/>\n        <!--Ad policy ends here--><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"is-style-dropcap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/environment\/olufemi-taiwo-reparations-climate-justice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ol\u00faf\u00e9mi T\u00e1\u00edw\u00f2<\/a>, in his groundbreaking 2022 book, <em>Reconsidering Reparations<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.haymarketbooks.org\/books\/2538-reconsidering-reparations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reissued<\/a> last spring), wrote something that I wish many more on the left would embrace: \u201cThe possibility of keeping justice alive in our time hinges on our response to the reality of a warming planet.\u201d In a more recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonreview.net\/forum\/climate-state-and-utopia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">essay<\/a>, T\u00e1\u00edw\u00f2 made refreshingly explicit what that response requires. \u201cThe strategic imperative,\u201d he argued, \u201cmust be clear: nothing less than the total defeat of the organized political interests of oil, gas, and coal producers is necessary to make any other climate justice goals even a remote possibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I quote T\u00e1\u00edw\u00f2 not only because he\u2019s right but also because he\u2019s not just addressing the climate movement; he\u2019s addressing the entire left.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no stretch, at this late date, to conclude that nothing short of revolution, in some form, will be required to salvage progressive visions of a better world. It should be obvious\u2014and always should have been obvious\u2014that climate activists, a mere <em>climate<\/em> movement, can\u2019t do this alone. What\u2019s required, and always has been, is not simply a broader, better organized, more powerful \u201cclimate left\u201d; what\u2019s required is a far more powerful <em>left<\/em>\u2014a resurgent, revolutionary left\u2014a movement of movements, a popular front in which the total defeat of fascism and of fossil capital are understood as inseparable.<\/p>\n<section id=\"popular-block_e1fe026a278d7554d1ec1bd197c03fc1\" class=\"popular-articles\">\n<div class=\"swiper\">\n<p><h2>Popular<\/h2>\n<p>            <span class=\"swipe-msg\"><span class=\"sr-only\">\u201cswipe left below to view more authors\u201d<\/span>Swipe \u2192<\/span>\n        <\/p>\n<ol class=\"popular-articles__list\">\n<li class=\"popular-articles__list-item swiper-slide\">\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"popular-articles__list-item swiper-slide\">\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"popular-articles__list-item swiper-slide\">\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"popular-articles__list-item swiper-slide\">\n<\/li>\n<\/ol><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>It\u2019s too late to prevent climate catastrophe. We\u2019re in it now\u2014and as scientists tell us with increasing desperation, every tenth of a degree matters as we near irreversible tipping points. This means there\u2019s no quitting the politics of climate. Not on this planet, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>The climate fight is far from over. In fact, it\u2019s only begun.<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-end-\" class=\"article-end \">\n<div class=\"article-end__authors\">\n<div class=\"article-end__author\">\n<h5 class=\"article-end__author-name\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/authors\/wen-stephenson\/\">Wen Stephenson<\/a><br \/>\n                    <\/h5>\n<div class=\"article-end__author-bio\">\n<p>Wen Stephenson is the climate-justice correspondent for <em>The Nation<\/em>. An independent journalist, essayist, and activist, he is the author of, most recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haymarketbooks.org\/books\/2523-learning-to-live-in-the-dark\"><em>Learning to Live in the Dark: Essays in a Time of Catastrophe<\/em><\/a> (Haymarket, 2025). His previous book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/250727\/what-were-fighting-for-now-is-each-other-by-wen-stephenson\/\"><em>What We&#8217;re Fighting for Now Is Each Other<\/em><\/a> (Beacon, 2015), is a personal account of the pivotal early years of the US climate-justice movement.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <!-- Tag ID: thenation_incontent_2 --><\/p>\n<section class=\"collections collections--col-0\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<h2 class=\"collections__title\">More from <span class=\"not-italic\">The Nation<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"collection__row\">\n<div class=\"collections__card   \">\n            <a class=\"collections__card-image-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/environment\/belem-cop30-disappointment-climate-change\/\" aria-label=\"Backsliding in Bel\u00e9m\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"collections__card-image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cop30-protest-belem-getty.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cop30-protest-belem-getty-275x173.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cop30-protest-belem-getty-768x484.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cop30-protest-belem-getty-810x510.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cop30-protest-belem-getty-340x215.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cop30-protest-belem-getty-168x106.jpg 168w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cop30-protest-belem-getty-382x240.jpg 382w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cop30-protest-belem-getty-793x500.jpg 793w\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cop30-protest-belem-getty.jpg\" alt=\"People participate in a demonstration in front of the main entrance of COP30 in Bel\u00e9m, Brazil, on November 10, 2025.\"\/><br \/>\n        <\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"collections__card-content\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-the-nation-dek article-title__dek\">\n<p>Petrostates at COP30 quash fossil fuel and deforestation phaseouts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"knockout \">\n                                                                            <a class=\"collections__author\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/authors\/mark-hertsgaard\/\">Mark Hertsgaard<\/a>                                    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"collections__card   \">\n            <a class=\"collections__card-image-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/environment\/trump-coal-country-colstrip-montana\/\" aria-label=\"Trump Promised to Bring Back Coal. 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