Growth Sustainability
Degrowth and Socialism- an online public meeting
ONLINE PUBLIC MEETING Monday 26th June, 7.30pm Zoom link here Economic growth is central to mainstream economics. Politicians insist that…
Category: Sustainability
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Extinction Rebellion, The Big One and the Labour Movement
Rob Marsden writes: Extinction Rebellion’s “The Big One”, a long weekend of climate actions, pickets and demonstrations in London last…
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Nine questions for Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer
From Urban Ramblings, a very topical piece which raises some important questions. In the week that the sky all along…
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Big Toxics and their lobby firepower
From Social Europe The chemical giants outspend even Big Tech and Big Energy on lobbying the EU—and it’s working. In…
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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 European eel – a critically endangered species on the menu of top European restaurants
Alan Thornett (pictured with a trophy eel in 1949) writes: The most disastrous consequence, of today’s environmental crisis, is the…
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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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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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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…