Climate Change

Labour: Stand firm in opposition to oil & gas

Please sign this open letter to Keir Starmer. Dear Sir Keir Starmer, CC: Angela Rayner MP, Rachel Reeves MP and…

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The Biggest ‘Renewable’ Power Plant in the UK Burns Wood Processed in Poor, Black Communities in the US

From Novara Media by Simon Childs 10 May 2023 Drax power station in North Yorkshire. REUTERS/Lee Smith It is “no mistake”…

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A precious resource: how Israel uses water to control the West Bank

From The Guardian In occupied West Bank villages, Israeli-owned farms are flourishing, while Palestinians often do not have enough water…

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Brexit is destroying what’s left of the UK car industry

Alan Thornett writes about another Brexit chicken coming home to roost with a vengeance. The electric vehicle (EV) multinational Stellantis…

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Getting real: what would serious climate action look like?

From Scientists for Global Responsibility Prof Kevin Anderson, Manchester University, summarises the action necessary if governments and societies were really…

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“Everything about carmaking is changing at once. The industry must reinvent itself to keep pace.”

From Birmingham Against the Cuts website On April 27 BATC asked “How safe are jobs in the auto industry in…

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Ecological insecurity is about more than climate change

From Dan Smith’s Blog, this article introduces Sipri’s new report Five questions on ecological security Beyond the climate crisis, other related…

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Ready for The Big One

The Big One starts tomorrow with a series of ‘Peoples Pickets’ at key government departments in London. We reproduce below…

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Beyond the car – Oxford’s much maligned ‘15-minute city’

Alan Thornett writes: This piece is a response to an article published on the Socialist Appeal website by Sjoerd Smit, a member of…

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Rhetoric Aside, India Must Find Answers to These Seven Critical Questions on Green Hydrogen

Pritam Singh and Simon Pirani, writing in The Wire There’s so much fanfare around green hydrogen in the ruling establishment…