Is our relentless quest for economic growth killing the planet? Climate scientists have seen the data — and they are coming to some incendiary conclusions.

“Some of the new movements that have emerged in recent years have staying power, but too many of them arrive, raise huge hopes, and then seem to disappear or fizzle out. The reason is simple. We are trying to organize in the rubble of a 30 year war that has been waged on the collective sphere and workers rights. The young people in the streets are the children of that war.”