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Jason Hickel: Our best shot at cooling the planet might be right under our feet
Great idea. Unfortunately the problem is always the same: moneyed interests buy corrupt politicians, be it in the USA, EU, or elsewhere, who block these measures. Great ideas do not always change policy. Politics do. […]
Austerity
Pamela Anderson – Yellow Vests and I
Pamela Anderson has put together a brilliant piece. It is conspicuous that no politician is capable of writing an article like this. It says a lot about the European political class. Pamela Anderson is a […]
Climate Crisis
The Sustainability Agenda: Interview with Kate Raworth
In recent years, more and more attention has been paid to how economic theory is divorced from environmental reality, exemplified by how environmental breakdown is often dismissingly referred to as a mere “externality”. In this […]
Climate Crisis
CommonSpace – Analysis: Yellow Vests hold out more hope for climate revolution than suits in Katowice
CommonSpace editor Ben Wray looks at how climate activists should respond to the Yellow Vests movement in France, which has defeated attempts to impose taxes on fuel prices Read here
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Danny Dorling – Geography and Climate Breakdown
“When I was a schoolboy physical geographers taught me that the next ice age was coming. It was coming imminently they said. When I was at university they used to climb mountains to measure glacier […]
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Unearthed: Trade group including Facebook, Google to ‘oppose’ EU climate efforts
Leaked document details BusinessEurope’s campaign to undermine EU attempts to cut climate emissions Read here
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Corporate Europe Observatory – Coal is king at UN climate talks in Poland
Next week, countries will gather in Katowice, Poland, for the latest round of UN climate negotiations, known as COP24. Their plan is to try to agree on how to implement the 2015 Paris Agreement. However, […]
Corruption
BBC – The Romanian forest that’s disappearing
Romania: Rampant corruption, building cheap cars for Renault, exporting cheap labour to Western Europe, destroying its environment. Another EU success story. Watch here
Climate Crisis
Mark Blyth and Carrie Nordlund – “Mark and Carrie”
Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown’s Watson Institute, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and associate director of Brown’s Master of Public Affairs program, share their take on the week’s news. Today’s topics include the California […]