Environment
Tim Jackson: Care Over Growth
In short order, the COVID-19 pandemic forced us to recognize that our capitalist economic system privileges second-order priorities like wealth at the expense of first-order ones like health. The question now is whether we will […]
Bill McKibben: The happiest number I’ve heard in ages
If we switched to renewable energy, the number of ships crossing the ocean would fall almost in half. Because they’re just carrying coal and oil and gas Read Here
Thomas Klikauer and Meg Young – Carbon Justice and Global Survival
Australia has made a pact with the devil regarding climate change. Thomas Klikauer teaches at the Sydney Graduate School of Management at Western Sydney University, Australia. He has over 600 publications including a book on the AfD. […]
Benjamin Franta – Climate litigation rising: Hot spots to watch
There is a great deal of good information in this article Read Here
Caroline Lucas: We urgently need to rethink the funding of global climate action
If the financial crisis and Covid were important enough for governments to do whatever it takes to find the money needed, then surely the climate crisis demands a similar response Read here
Reuters: EU drafts plan to label gas and nuclear investments as green
The EU: always in the service of corporate profit and oligarchs Read here This file comes from the website of the President of the Russian Federation and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4
PIK: How to protect emissions trading from excessive financial speculation
CO2 emissions trading – a key element of EU climate policy – can be protected from distortions driven by financial speculators, a new report shows. Read here
Politics Theory Other – Jason Hickel on how degrowth will save the world (part two)
Jason Hickel returns to PTO for the second part of a two part interview on his book, Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World. We talked about the concept of ‘green growth’, and […]
UNDP: Fossil fuel subsidies reform could limit climate change while tackling global inequalities. Here’s how
The world is spending billions of dollars on fossil fuels subsidies while hundreds of millions of people live in poverty. Priorities must shift if we want humanity to survive. Read here