Climate Crisis
Steve Keen on economic ideology, capitalism and the future
10 October 2024
Sustainability
Climate Crisis
Real Zero Europe – Road to Nowhere: CCS and CDR technologies won’t deliver for the climate
Despite the failures, CCS and CDR are gaining traction in policy discussions in the EU and in Member States Real Zero Europe brings together climate, environmental, economic justice, human rights, and food sovereignty organisations and […]
Climate Crisis
Responsible Statecraft: How Azerbaijan is ‘peacewashing’ its image ahead of COP 29
Baku is hosting the climate summit in November with some help from a high priced PR firm Read HERE
Climate Crisis
Richard Murphy – Let’s stop pretending that we are going to live comfortably
Climate emergency, Israeli genocide in Palestine and now Lebanon, the lost war in Ukraine. The Western authoritarian liberal political class in denial with in horrendous consequences Richard Murphy is an economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting, […]
Climate Crisis
Corporate Europe Observatory – The little-known ‘forum’ locking Europe into a fossil fuelled future
The European Commission’s ‘ICM Forum’ on 10-11 October in Pau, France, is a fossil-fuel industry-led carbon coup, aiming to lock the continent into fossil fuels for decades. Cross-posted from Corporate Europe Observatory The EU has […]
Energy
TJ Jordan – UK’s £22 Billion Carbon Capture Pledge Follows Surge in Lobbying by Fossil Fuel Industry, Records Show
The scope of corporate influence underscores concerns the technology will be used to prolong demand for planet-heating natural gas. TJ Jordan is an investigative reporter who focuses on greenwashing and climate communications. He joined DeSmog […]
Economics
Ann Pettifor: Capitalism’s Attack on Time & Nature
Why governments and big oil cannot face the future. Read HERE Pie in the sky – photo: Jonathan McIntosh/Creative Commons
Energy
Balkan Green Energy News: Europe is facing energy crisis in winter because of Ukraine
About half of Ukraine’s power generation capacity isn’t in operation, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), so the country has turned from a net exporter of electricity to an importer. Read HERE Photo: State […]
DeGrowth
Chris Hedges: Burn the Planet and Lock Up the Dissidents
Climate activists are being locked behind bars while our rulers burn down the world, exemplified by the fossil-fuelled annihilation of Gaza. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years […]
Climate Crisis
Enzo Rossi – Growing Pains: Climate Change and the Socialist Transformation
The debate between those who advocate degrowth and those who advocate eco-modernism on the international left has often been unnecessarily polemical, and both sides have failed to offer a compelling vision to the public. Enzo […]