Fantastic short video on how a publicly owned grocery chain would work in Canada. Any #NZPol Food Policy policy nerds on here keen do some analysis on how this might work here in Aotearoa NZ?

"Instead of the President's Choice, imagine... the People's Choice" An explainer I made with @breachmedia.ca www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPuE...

Great discussion with Nick on @broadbent.bsky.social's new Class & Climate podcast. Give it a listen!

🎙New Class & Climate episode: @avansi.bsky.social‬ + Vijay Kolinjivadi join‪ @greeneconnet.bsky.social's Nick Pearce to take on the “sustainability class” and show why green consumption isn’t enough. Listen here: perspectivesjournal.ca/the-sustaina...

Join us for our Montreal book launch for The Sustainability Class on May 22 at Pulp Books. We'll be joined by Alejandra Zaga Mendes, MNA for the party Quebec Solidaire in Verdun. @thenewpress.bsky.social pulpbooks.ca/events/26445...

Our event with @haymarketbooks.org yesterday is now up on Youtube! It was a delight to hear what Ashley and Emma had to say about what environmentalism for everyone looks like. @thenewpress.bsky.social @emma-river-roberts.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuCa...

LIVE NOW! Join @ashdawson.bsky.social , @emma-river-roberts.bsky.social , @avansi.bsky.social , and Vijay Kolinjivadi for a discussion on how to reject the “sustainability class” and instead build a working class environmentalism. Stream here:

“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 @avansi.bsky.social www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/21/a...

Join @ashdawson.bsky.social , @emma-river-roberts.bsky.social , @avansi.bsky.social , and Vijay Kolinjivadi for a discussion on how to reject the “sustainability class” and instead build a working class environmentalism. Thursday, April 24 at 2pm ET RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

How can we reject the sustainability class, and build a working class environmentalism capable of progressive change? 🌏 Join us Thu Apr 24, 2-3:30pm EDT (7-8.30pm BST) as we discuss this key climate issue: @ashdawson.bsky.social @avansi.bsky.social www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

yes, all this and more is in the first few pages of our book!

The book was on the New Books shelf at Ann Arbor’s district library. Just finishing the introduction and already I see the connections behind Trump/Musk actions in such stark focus - from gentrification, nearly complete over-class, minerals mining in Greenland! Ukraine! The world’s oceans! The moon!

Heading to the US for some book events, with @vijaykol.bsky.social and @eleanorfinley.bsky.social

"If the members of this class are to be more than a green aristocracy, they must relinquish their grip on the environmental narrative." @kevinini.bsky.social reviews The Sustainability Class by @vijaykol.bsky.social & @avansi.bsky.social wccalliance.org/the-sustaina...

Hanging out with Aaron and Vijay to talk about the distortion of sustainability to equal green consumption with moral implications and ask: what is to be done?

The Sustainability Class is heading to New York City! Come see us talk at two different events: Greenpoint Public Library, Brooklyn Saturday January 25, 1:00-2:30pm Woodbine, Queens Sunday January 26, 4:30pm @vijaykol.bsky.social

"speculative leftist conversations about the potential necessity of CCS and other 'modern' technologies appear naive and irrelevant—these are the means of our class enemies, seeking only to prolong and intensify the uses and extent of fossil fuels." [email protected]

Everyone must read this great book by @avansi.bsky.social and @vijaykol.bsky.social !

Nothing can be eco-friendly until the ecological debt is paid. In this excerpt from our book, @vijaykol.bsky.social and I describe the uneven distribution of labor, nature, and debt that props up rich nations—and their supposedly green solutions. www.cetri.be/Nothing-can-...

He died as he lived, clicking “Forgot password,” then checking his inbox for a code, then putting in that code, then setting up two-step verification, and then waiting for the text message that doesn’t come, and then calling the 800 number, and then downloading an authenticator app, and dying.

Nothing can be ‘green’ or ‘eco-friendly’ until the ecological debt for the historical and ongoing exploitation driving environmental collapse is paid. By @vijaykol.bsky.social & @avansi.bsky.social 👇 www.cetri.be/Nothing-can-... #ecologicaldebt #climatedebt

Here's @vijaykol.bsky.social and I in today's TIME magazine. "Strangely, in the middle of ecological breakdown threatening the very basis of human life to thrive on this planet, superyachts or luxury tourism resorts are just not up for public debate." time.com/7200268/ultr...

"The more our political energy goes to the politics of self-expression, the less there is for the fights we really need to win against mass deportation, mass incarceration, the climate crisis." by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-...

looking forward to getting my hands on this new book by @vijaykol.bsky.social and @avansi.bsky.social the back cover makes me think of nicole seymour's excellent "bad environmentalism" and how liberal sustainability vilifies the working class. more of this!!! thenewpress.com/books/sustai...

I was fortunate to receive an advance copy of this and started reading it recently. It's great so far and I'm excited to dig in further!

Today is publication day. For the occasion, The Ecologist has published an excerpt from our book, introducing the concept of "green gaslighting". theecologist.org/2024/dec/10/...

It's publication day for @vijaykol.bsky.social and @avansi.bsky.social's The Sustainability Class. I was lucky enough to read an early draft. It's an important, super readable, analysis of why lifestyle environmentalism and techno-innovation can't save the planet and what we should do instead.

Decrying the rise of a "sustainability class" @vijaykol.bsky.social @avansi.bsky.social say the richest 1% are responsible for 16% of the world's emissions - 50 of the richest billionaires emit more carbon through investments, private jets & yachts <2hrs than the ave person does in a lifetime

Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no

This is basically the conclusion of our book. Essentially we try to convince liberals and those new to politics that, if they want to make a difference, they need to abandon class comforts and actively build solidarity across class

For carbon markets to work, carbon would need to keep being burned. This basic truth seems to elide the whole elite class pushing them. 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"By 2033, you could spend your retirement on Pangeos, a giant turtle-shaped floating city featuring shopping malls, an airport, and hotels. Sound excessive? Don't worry, it'll be entirely powered by solar panels." Read @vijaykol.bsky.social and me in @newsweek.com www.newsweek.com/rise-sustain...

Forthcoming 2025 with @plutopress.bsky.social, written with @kaiheron.bsky.social and @kmilb.bsky.social Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future.

Coming soon, December 10. #sustainabilityclass @vijaykol.bsky.social