Climate Crisis
The Guardian: Scores arrested as thousands block London bridges in climate rebellion
Protesters close five main bridges across Thames over extinction crisis in huge act of peaceful civil disobedience Read here
Environment
Climate Crisis
Kevin MacKay – The Ecological Crisis is a Political Crisis
Kevin MacKay contends that oligarchy has been a more fundamental cause of the collapse of civilisations than social complexity or energy demand. Control by oligarchs, he argues, thwarts rational decision-making, because the short-term interests of […]
Climate Crisis
George Monbiot: The Earth is in a death spiral. It will take radical action to save us
Climate breakdown could be rapid and unpredictable. We can no longer tinker around the edges and hope minor changes will avert collapse. Read here
Climate Crisis
Jason Hickel – Here’s a simple solution to the green growth / degrowth debate
Jason Hickel examines the arguments of green growth and finds them lacking. Green growth is simply not capable of reversing ecological breakdown and keep global warming under 1.5 degrees. Jason Hickel is an anthropologist who […]
Environment
Nick Dearden: Tricks of the trade
Liam Fox is planning bargain-basement trade deals for Brexit Britain – but Labour policy promises to deliver trade justice and democracy for the many. Read here
Environment
The Irish Times: EU critical of ‘severe’ weaknesses in Ireland’s fisheries controls
This is the lovely thing about the EU. So many beautiful laws concerning car emissions, taxes, workers’ rights, financial regulation, etc., but so full of loopholes (especially when it is about profits) that no one […]
Austerity
The Left Case Against the EU by Costas Lapavitsas
Book review by Mathew D. Rose Do you have a feeling something is going seriously wrong in the EU with the rise of neo-fascism, inequality, and power of corporations, but cannot quite put your finger […]
Climate Crisis
The Sustainability Agenda: Interview with Jason Hickle
This is a wide-ranging and thought-provoking interview, chock full of fresh thinking on sustainability, poverty and inequality, and the impact of the western-led development agenda across the world. Jason paints an eye-opening picture of the […]
Climate Crisis
The Guardian – The unseen driver behind the migrant caravan: climate change
In Europe we shall have the same problem as people in Africa and the Near East are confronted with the devastation of climate change. Read here
Corruption
Ende Gelaende 2018 – Germany: Hambach coal track and RWE digger blocked
Hambacher Forest: 6,500 activists block mining operations in the Rhineland coalfield, Largest action of civil disobedience of the German climate movement. Read here