Climate Crisis
Larry Elliot: Climate change will make the next global crash the worst
The storm clouds are gathering, but the world’s economies now have far fewer shelters from disaster than they did in 1929 Read here
Environment
Climate Crisis
George Monbiot: The one good thing about Brexit? Leaving the EU’s disgraceful farming system
One could add the EU´s disgraceful global warming policy, or its disgraceful economic policy, or its disgraceful tax policy, or its disgraceful refugee policy, or……. Read here
Climate Crisis
Hauke Benner- Germany´s tree-occupiers keep the multinational corporation RWE in check
On Saturday 50,000 protestors participated in a march to the Hambach Forest, one of Germany´s few remaining virgin woodlands. The Energy transnational corporation RWE wishes to destroy it to enable them to surface mine brown […]
Climate Crisis
238 Academics: The EU needs a stability and wellbeing pact, not more growth
This week, scientists, politicians, and policymakers are gathering in Brussels for a landmark conference. The aim of this event, organised by members of the European parliament from five different political groups, alongside trade unions and […]
Climate Crisis
Jason Hickel – Soothing fears about a post-growth world
Last week Foreign Policy published an article I wrote titled “Why growth can’t be green.” It stirred a lively online discussion – and of course attracted dissenters. Among them was one Noah Smith, who penned […]
Climate Crisis
Jason Hickel – Why growth can’t be green
The promise of green growth turns out to have been based more on wishful thinking than on evidence. In the years since the Rio conference, three major empirical studies have arrived at the same rather […]
Climate Crisis
Green New Deal Group – Britain: A Green New Deal Election Manifesto
As in past times of crises, disparate groups have come together to propose a new solution to an epochal challenge. The Green New Deal Group, drew inspiration from the tone of President Roosevelt’s comprehensive response […]
Economics
George Monbiot: We won’t save the Earth with a better kind of disposable coffee cup
We must challenge the corporations that urge us to live in a throwaway society rather than seeking ‘greener’ ways of maintaining the status quo Read here
Environment
The Telegraph: France becomes first country in Europe to ban all five pesticides killing bees
It is that simple. Read here
Climate Crisis
Transport & Environment – Carmakers have cheated European drivers to the tune of 150bn euros since 2000
The real cost of carmakers gaming fuel efficiency tests is now revealed: the additional fuel burned because of widespread industry manipulation has cost drivers an extra €149.6 billion for the past 18 years (2000-2017) [1]. […]