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Marco D’Eramo: Darning the Planet
On the climate crisis and the political class. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.
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Robin McAlpine: Humanity relies on us getting our pitch right
Focused on Scotland but relevant everywhere: how to convince a sceptical public that radical climate action can be good for them? Robin McAlpine is founder of the Scottish think-and-do tank Common Weal Cross-posted from Robin […]
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Bill McKibben: When It Comes to the Climate Emergency, It’s No Fun Saying, ‘I Told You So’
As record temperatures are smashed all over the world, it’s clear we are losing the fight against climate catastrophe, but we must keep fighting. Bill McKibben is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College and […]
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João Camargo: The Climate Crisis Will Be the Mother of All Financial Crises
The relationship between climate breakdown and a dysfunctional finance and insurance system Joao Camargo is a climate activist in grassroots movement Climaximo in Portugal and in the Climate Jobs campaign. He’s an environmental engineer and […]
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Fernando Valladares: Excessive personal consumption has serious global consequences
The super-rich emit far more emissions than anyone else, so any climate emission reduction policies must target them Cross-posted from The Conversation Europe Fernando Valladares is a Professor in the Department of Biogeography and Global […]
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Teresa Anderson: To Solve the Climate Crisis, It’s Time to Talk About Canceling Debt
Extortionate debt forces nations to pursue climate-unfriendly policies in the hope of repaying loans. Until the next crisis strikes. Cross-posted from Common Dreams As climate activists, we are used to banging our heads against brick […]
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João Camargo: The battle of Lützerath marks the beginning of a new stage for the global climate movement
The climate justice movement may have taken a step forward at Lützerath by taking a confrontational approach to capital and the state. Joao Camargo is a climate activist in grassroots movement Climaximo in Portugal and […]
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John Foster: The Greens are dead – Lützerath and German Environmentalism
John Foster writes in ‘The Battleground’ substack that the protests against a new coal mine in Lützerath, which is in the Nordrhein-Westfalen region of Germany, is turning into a nightmare for the Greens, who govern […]
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Oli Mould: Three arguments why Just Stop Oil was right to target Van Gogh’s Sunflowers
A defence of Just Stop Oil’s much derided direct action in London last week. Cross-posted from The Conversation UK Waves of controversy were sparked recently when the Just Stop Oil activists threw tomato soup over Van Gogh’s […]