"If the members of this class are to be more than a green aristocracy, they must relinquish their grip on the environmental narrative." Kevin Picado Exergy enjoyer reviews The Sustainability Class by Vijay Kolinjivadi Vijay & Aaron Vansintjan aaron vansintjan 🐙 wccalliance.org/the-sustainabi…

Heading to the US for some book events, with Vijay

I thought the part where they estimate 4 billion people will die worth a mention.

Fighting for tenant rights, throwing a neighborhood party: these are far more ecological than the next green startup New article by Vijay and I on CounterPunch counterpunch.org/2025/02/21/act…

Just spotted in my bookstore, the Sustainability Class by aaron vansintjan 🐙 and Vijay Looking forward to reading it soon.

How can we reject the moralising sustainability class, and build a working class environmentalism capable of progressive change? 🌏 Vijay aaron vansintjan 🐙 Thu Apr 24, 2-3:30pm EDT (7-8.30pm BST) Register to watch the panel discussion: tickettailor.com/events/haymark…

Join Ashley Dawson, Emma River-Roberts, aaron vansintjan 🐙, and Vijay for a discussion on how to reject the “sustainability class” and instead build a working class environmentalism. Thursday, April 24 at 2:00 PM ET RSVP: tickettailor.com/events/haymark…

“In fact, the future on offer by the sustainability class is not sustainable at all. Or rather, it only promises to sustain the present order of things—which all indicators suggest is hurtling towards ecological breakdown…” #degrowth aaron vansintjan 🐙 Vijay counterpunch.org/2025/02/21/act…

LIVE NOW! The Sustainability Class vs Working Class Environmentalism Join Ashley Dawson, Emma River-Roberts, aaron vansintjan 🐙, and Vijay for a discussion on how environmentalism should build class power to resist the decimation of life on our planet Stream: youtube.com/watch?v=vuCa9K…

It was great to speak with Ashley Dawson Ashley Dawson Aaron Vansintjan aaron vansintjan 🐙 and Vijay Kolinjivadi Vijay about the pitfalls of liberal environmentalism - the recording of the panel discussion is now available to watch 👇 🌿 Haymarket Books youtube.com/watch?v=vuCa9K…

From our book, in the section "Carbon tunnel vision"

🎙New Class & Climate episode: aaron vansintjan 🐙 + Vijay join Green Economy Network's Nick Pearce to take on the “sustainability class” and show why green consumption isn’t enough. Listen here: perspectivesjournal.ca/the-sustainabi…

Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality. 🧵A thread on a NEW STUDY written with Gastón Nievas Offidani [1/9] 🔗 wid.world/news-article/u…

Hi everyone, I'm excited to announce this new project: a website dedicated to research and data on imperialism and inequality. You're going to love this... (links in thread below):

Meanwhile... "Rising global temperatures are set to devastate food crops across the world, with particularly alarming impacts projected for the United States, where production of key crops could plummet 50%" according to a sweeping new analysis eight years in the making

A lot of centrists out there who'll speculate about sci-fi futures where we colonize Mars and live for centuries, but who'll also describe free buses and cheap public grocery stories as fantastically utopian.

Who is driving climate breakdown? Buckle up for some striking data... 🧵 1. First, global North countries are responsible for 86% of cumulative emissions in excess of the safe planetary boundary. China is responsible for 1%. The rest of the South and peripheral Europe is

8. But there's a problem. The two graphs above show emissions from household consumption. But it's more important to account for who controls investment and PRODUCTION, since those are the people who have the power to produce differently, eg by using renewable energy, or by