Climate Crisis
Benjamin Bradlow, Alexandros Kentikelenis – Technology and Transition
The role of technology transfers in international trade, particularly in the context of the green transition. In ‘Phenomenal World’. Read the article HERE.
Solutions
Climate Crisis
Francisco García Sánchez, Dhanapal Govindarajulu – Valencia floods showed why coastal cities should restore their wetlands
Wetlands absorb rainwater, a key impediment to dangerous flooding, but not if they have been destroyed by ecologically insensitive development. Francisco García Sánchez is assistant Professor in Urban Planning at the Universidad de Cantabria. Dhanapal […]
Austerity
Michael Roberts – Books of the year 2024
Every year at this time, I look back at the books that I have reviewed during the year on this blog. I’ll take them in chronological order. José Tapia had a new book on the […]
Corruption
Richard D. Wolff, Michael Hudson – The Irony of Calling the Opponents of Nazism Nazis
Symptoms of decline in liberal capitalist democracy showing from South Korea to Germany. Cross-posted from Michael Hudson’s blog NIMA: Hi, everybody. Today is Thursday, December 5th, and our friends, Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff are […]
Climate Crisis
Jem Bendell – The scientific pain of climate change: Shifting narratives of acceptance and avoidance in climatology
Any time we use to debunk the irrational ideological arguments of privileged people in privileged societies is time lost for serious exploration for how to respond to reality. Jem Bendell is Professor of Sustainability Leadership, […]
Corruption
BRAVE NEW EUROPE Fundraiser for 2025
In our lifetime in the West we have never been confronted with such a massive onslaught on truth by corporate and state media as the authoritarian liberal political class enters its current crisis. At the […]
Climate Crisis
Jordi Roca Jusmet – Fossil fuel supply: the elephant in the room at climate change conferences
Keeping fossil fuels in the ground is indispensable to any serious plan for decarbonisation, but there is still no serious discussion about doing so. Jordi Roca Jusmet is an economics professor at the University of […]
Climate Crisis
Nina-Miholjcic Ivkovic – The EU Cynically Pushes Lithium Mining in Serbia
‘The European Union loves boasting about its green agenda. But its plans rely on electric vehicles — and a push for lithium mining in Serbia, which would outsource the environmental costs of the green transition […]
Solutions
Chris Hedges – The Politics of Cultural Despair
Despair is killing us. Cross-posted from Chris Hedges’ Substack In the end, the election was about despair. Despair over futures that evaporated with deindustrialization. Despair over the loss of 30 million jobs in mass layoffs. […]
Climate Crisis
Veronica Gennari – Banlieues Climat: Fighting Eco-Fascism with Popular Ecology
Putting social class and climate action together in Paris’ impoverished suburbs. Veronica Gennari is an Italian freelance journalist based in Paris. Cross-posted from Green European Journal On the morning of 12 October, a crowd gathered […]