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DeZeen: “Our dependency on growth, like on concrete, must be abolished”

September 30, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

The pursuit of infinite economic growth is driving climate breakdown and producing ecologically toxic architecture, argues Phineas Harper, one of the chief curators of the Oslo Architecture Triennale. Read here

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Sam Lowe – Should the EU put a Tax on Imported CO2?

September 29, 2019 David Shirreff 0

An EU carbon border tax would be tricky to design, costly to implement and sure to provoke legal challenges. But if done properly there are reasons to think it could succeed, says the Centre for […]

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Counterpunch: Rob Urie – Climate Change and Technology

September 28, 2019 David Shirreff 0

Most of the proposed technical solutions exacerbate environmental ills in other dimensions, and threaten to unleash a host of unintended consequences. Rob Urie is is an artist and political economist. His book Zen Economics is published by […]

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Matt Finch – Decarbonising Aviation. Plane easy?

September 28, 2019 David Shirreff 0

Unfortunately, no. Some sectors – such as aviation – seem to defy all logical ways to offset their carbon footprint. Can the UK possibly achieve zero-carbon planes by 2050? Matt Finch is ECIU business and […]

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Richard Collett-White: US Lobby Groups Most Effective at Blocking Climate Action – Report

September 25, 2019 David Shirreff 0

US lobby groups representing the fossil fuel and automotive industries are world leaders when it comes to stalling government action on climate change, new research shows. Read here

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Corporate Europe Observatory – Who Owns All The EU Pipelines?

September 17, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Why is the EU still building new and unnecessary gas pipelines and LNG terminals? Who’s pushing them and who’s profiting from them? The companies behind Europe’s gas transport network are rarely household names, yet their […]

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Transport & Environment – Pollution and Damage from ‘Floating Cities’ are Creating Conflict

September 11, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Anger at the growing environmental and local impact of massive cruise ships has resulted in two important moves to lessen the burden that mega-ships impose on ports. Barcelona has proposed electrifying the city’s docks to […]

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Alf Hornborg – A Globalised Solar-Powered Future is Wholly Unrealistic – and our Economy is the Reason Why

September 6, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

An excellent weekend read ticking many crucial boxes concerning stopping the climate disaster. Alf Hornborg, Professor of Human Ecology, Lund University Valentin Valkov/Shutterstock.com Over the past two centuries, millions of dedicated people – revolutionaries, activists, […]

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Open Democracy – False Hopes for a Green New Deal

September 3, 2019 David Shirreff 0

If the ‘Green New Deal’ is our best answer to the climate crisis, then we have no answer to the climate crisis. The GND will founder on capitalism’s endless quest for growth. Rufus Jordana is […]

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Alex Phillips – A Green New Deal is the only way to fight Climate Change.

September 3, 2019 David Shirreff 1

Transition to renewable energies – to redress past profligacy – needs to be enforced by an Environmental Justice Commission, as proposed by a Green New Deal for Europe Alex Phillips is a Green Party Member […]

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Fractured China: How State Transformation is Shaping China’s Rise by Lee Jones and Shahar Hameiri 

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Book Review by  Chenchao Lian Originally published by E-International Relations How is Chinese foreign policy made? How is it implemented? These are questions that have long occupied China specialists. With the growth of Chinese power […]

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In the Line of Fire by Antony Thomas

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Book Review by David Shirreff This tale, about the making of seminal documentaries over more than 50 years, underlines the sad truth that the world has not become a better place. But nor has it […]

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