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The Global North isn’t ready for climate breakdown
The Global North isn’t ready for climate breakdown European responses to extreme weather demonstrate post-industrial nations have much to learn from people in the Global South, writes Aranyo Aarjan Flooding in Tilff, Belgium, July 2021 (Photo: Regine Fabri; licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0) When I was growing up in Kolkata, every monsoon the streets would […]
Greenwash
Greenwash An operation of fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil near Chicago, USA [Richard Hurd, Flickr CC BY 2.0] The harm caused by the climate crisis has become undeniable – and terrifying. The floods, storms and raging fires, and the death and displacement they bring, have contributed to a global upwelling of concern and demands on governments to […]
Food for thought
Food for thought Leander Jones looks at the role of community supported agriculture as a 21st-century antidote to the destructive and increasingly fragile corporate agricultural model Members of the Basta community supported agriculture collective working the farm. Image courtesy of Hof Basta. In the past few decades fundamental flaws in the global food system have […]
Vampire finance sucks the lifeblood out of the economy
Vampire finance sucks the lifeblood out of the economy We need democratic control of the financial sector. An interview with Saskia Sassen The World Economic Forum. Photo by Studio Roosegaarde (Flickr) Every year to coincide with the World Economic Forum, the Transnational Institute based in Amsterdam launches a State of Power report to expose and deepen our understanding […]
Confronting extinction
Confronting extinction Photo by Julia Hawkins (Flickr) With high-profile direct actions across London, the Extinction Rebellion (XR) movement has captured media headlines, garnered influential supporters, and inspired a wave of participants across the globe. From blocking bridges to occupying government departments, XR has sounded alarm bells at the extinction before us, demanding a more radical […]
Ann Pettifor: If I governed the Bank of England, here’s what I do
Ann Pettifor: If I governed the Bank of England, here’s what I do The radical economist outlines how she’d overhaul the UK’s broken economy. If such an implausible appointment were ever to be made by a Labour chancellor, I would regard it as a great honour. The Bank of England stands at the pinnacle of […]
The road away from fossil fuels
The road away from fossil fuels Katowice. Photo by Jadwiga (Flickr) President Andrzej Duda’s authoritarian government can expect a rough political ride in December, when politicians, diplomats and campaigners stream into Katowice, Poland, for the next UN summit on climate change. Poland’s so-called climate policy – to aim for “carbon neutrality” by discounting emissions from […]
Today we’ve consumed more resources than the planet can renew in a year
Today we’ve consumed more resources than the planet can renew in a year Our economies are operating a giant planetary Ponzi scheme: borrowing far more from the Earth’s ecosystems than they can sustain. Photo by Jenny Tañedo Today is Earth Overshoot Day, the date when we have taken more from nature than it can renew […]
A world for the many, not the few
A world for the many, not the few “The very notion of ‘charity’ erases a global history of slavery and oppression”. Asad Rehman applauds Labour’s ambition to overhaul neo-colonial development policy Illustration by Andrzej Krauze In 1792, pioneering British feminist and social justice activist Mary Wollstonecroft wrote in her seminal book The Rights of Women, ‘It is […]
Where’s the “eco” in ecomodernism?
Where’s the “eco” in ecomodernism? Image: Richard Walker If you hadn’t heard, despair is old hat. Rather than retreat into the woods, now is the time to think big, to propose visionary policies and platforms. So enter grand proposals like basic income, universal healthcare, and the end of work. Slap big polluters with carbon tax, […]
Review: No Is Not Enough
Review: No Is Not Enough Samir Dathi reviews No Is Not Enough: Defeating the New Shock Politics, by Naomi Klein Naomi Klein’s new books always provoke plenty of excitement on the left. For starters, they always seem to augur new waves of popular struggle. The Canadian journalist’s debut No Logo, an exposé of corporate super-branding, went […]
