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Pavle Ilić – The enemy never left the gate: A new round of struggle against lithium exploitation in Serbia
Interesting struggle in Serbia over lithium mining. In ‘Counterfire’. Read the article HERE.
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Richard Heinberg – 7 Steps to What a Real Renewable Energy Transition Looks Like
An ambitious attempt to analyse the constraints on the green transition and how to overcome them. Richard Heinberg is a senior fellow at the Post Carbon Institute and the author of fourteen books, including his […]
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Bill McGuire – Too hot to live
There’s a new kind of extreme weather scorching the plane Bill McGuire is Professor Emeritus of Geophysical & Climate Hazards at UCL, and a co-director of the New Weather Institute. His current book is Waking […]
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Jordyn Dahl – 5 things to know about Europe’s electric vehicle transition
As European car manufacturers fall well behind their Chinese competitors, the EU is getting twitchy about its own targets to eliminate the internal combustion engine. In ‘Politico’. Read the article HERE.
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James Dyke, Robert Watson, Wolfgang Knorr – The overshoot myth: you can’t keep burning fossil fuels and expect scientists of the future to get us back to 1.5°C
By framing climate change in terms of temperature, it focuses on the symptoms, not the cause James Dyke, Associate Professor in Earth System Science, University of Exeter Robert Watson, Emeritus Professor in Environmental Sciences, University […]
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Geoff Dembicki – Shell Oil Nonprofit Donated to Anti-Climate Groups Behind Project 2025
Foundation says it ‘does not endorse any organizations’ while funneling hundreds of thousands to rightwing cause Geoff Dembicki is an investigative climate journalist based in New York City. He is author of The Petroleum Papers […]
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C.J. Polychroniou – A Note on Noam Chomsky and Climate Collapse
As Noam once said, “if you assume there is no hope, you guarantee there will be no hope.” C.J. Polychroniou is a political economist/political scientist who has taught and worked in numerous universities and research […]
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Saber Ammar – Resisting the new green colonialism
A proposed green hydrogen project in Tunisia prioritises European energy needs over local sovereignty. Saber Ammar is an activist, researcher, and Arab region program assistant at Transnational Institute (TNI). Cross-posted from Africa is a Country […]
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Moira Lavelle – Greek Unions Want Paid Time Off When It’s Too Hot to Work
Greece’s latest heat wave in July highlighted the danger of 100°F-plus temperatures for workers toiling in the sun. Trade unions are proposing a sensible solution: mandatory, paid stoppages on outdoor work when temperatures reach dangerous […]
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ARC – Re-CAP: Breaking down the breakdown of the EU’s green farming measures
The last few months have been a rollercoaster ride for the EU’s farming subsidy programme, which has seen its green ambitions sacrificed on the altar of food security and politics Cross-posted from the ARC website […]