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Politico: Trucking hell in Tyrol
Austria’s effort to cut down on truck traffic collides with the EU’s principle of freedom of movement. Read here
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Charles Adams – I Am Greta Thunberg
When arguments and facts run out, you can always count on mainstream media to resort to distraction by personalising an issue. We have seen this with Jeremy Corbyn, who is simply a representative of socialism […]
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David Barmes – Reflections on the State of Green Finance
Another example of why capitalism is not capable of dealing with the Climate Catastrophe, nor offer any real solutions. David Barmes is carrying out Positive Money’s latest research on Escaping Growth Dependency Cross-posted from Positive […]
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Paul Brown – Only a Climate Revolution Can Cool the World
An academic book on fossil fuel consumption reaches a startling conclusion: only a climate revolution can force governments to act to stop the planet overheating. Paul Brown, a founding editor of Climate News Network and […]
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David Powell – Climate Breakdown: Be More Virus
The climate isn’t linear. So we shouldn’t be. David Powell is Head of Environment & Green Transition at the New Economics Foundation Cross-posted from the website of the New Economics Foundation You don’t need statistics […]
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Bill Mitchell: Modest (insipid) Green New Deal proposals miss the point – Part 2
The response to climate change can only be a robust economic, political, and social revolution, but we have a lot of people tinkering on the edges. Read here Read Part 1 here
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Richard Murphy – The Green New Deal Requires Wealth Taxation
Just when you think Richard Murphy might be taking a day off, he makes another point landing. He is one of the few thinkers who can truly define how a Green New Deal brings together […]
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DeSmog UK -Comment: Policymakers Shouldn’t Trust Drax’s Bizarre Tree-Burning Climate Solution
We have a climate crisis and this is the sort of inane capitalist technical solutions we are being offered – and subsidise! By Almuth Ernsting, bioenergy campaigner with Biofuelwatch Cross-posted from DeSmog UK Image: Drax Group/Flickr CC […]
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Bill Mitchell: Modest (insipid) Green New Deal proposals miss the point – Part 1
The response to climate change can only be a robust economic, political, and social revolution, but we have a lot of people tinkering on the edges. Read here Read Part 2 here
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Bill McGuire – Global Heating? Climate Breakdown is Now Coming to You in Real Time…
Bill McGuire writes that it is time to ‘Shout it from the burning Arctic, pop the luke-warm champagne!’ As the second blistering heatwave of the summer sets in and the streets of the capital begin […]