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The Next Mass Extinction?
From NY Review of Books Oliver Whang As avian influenza spreads to the farthest reaches of the planet, scientists have…
Author: Rob Marsden
Climate Change Pollution Waste
You flood it, you pay for it
From Bill McKibben You flood it, you pay for it. States are considering ‘climate superfund’ laws to hold Big Oil…
Farming Food
Agriculture is killing the planet
From Ecosocialist Discussion By Alan Thornett This is a revised version of chapter 16 of my book Facing the Apocalypse–Arguments…
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Government documents ‘blow gaping hole’ in its case for Cumbrian coalmine
From The Guardian Michael Gove said UK needed coal to make steel, but business department papers drafted around same time…
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Starmer’s miserable betrayal—a gift to the crisis-ridden Tories and a disaster for the planet
By Alan Thornett The first item on the early morning news of Thursday 8 February was that, according to the…
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Moving to a sustainable system of food production within a degrowth paradigm
From billmitchell.org I read an interesting report in the last few days – The Economics of the Food System Transformation – published…
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Hinkley limps on – we pick up the bill
By Sean Thompson, The news that Hinkley Point C, the largest construction project in Europe and the first nuclear plant…
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‘Capitalism is anti-us’: ex-GKN workers champion ecological transition
From People and Nature On 9 July 2021, Melrose Industries announced the closure of its GKN Driveline (formerly FIAT)…
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What a fair deal for ex-steelworkers would look like as the industry decarbonises
From The Conversation Plans to cut almost 3,000 jobs at the UK’s largest steelworks, Tata Steel in Port Talbot, south…
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Towards a Just Transition in North Africa and the Middle East
From Labour Hub Mike Phipps reviews Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region, edited by Hamza Hamouchene and Katie…