Stirling Newberry at The Agonist

Since the problem facing the world is not caused by peak oil and global warming, but is causing them, these overwhelming facts will accelerate.
The inconvenient truth is that the global left needs to understand a fundamentally different brief for its strategy. The goal is not fairer distribution of wealth being produced, but a public direction of public resources to change the basic pattern of wealth production. The first step towards this is turning away from the reactionary policy of attempting to take rents using capital, which only burns the resources we need to face problems rather than dumping them on others. That means the first step is a clear and decisive shift in policy on the American economy, rooted in an end of the massive militarization project of the last two Presidential Terms.
But beyond that there is an entire Progressive Century, whose shape will be determined by the years to come, even as the old century and old political order ends.