Why green energy is not enough – a perspective from the Global South
From Labour Hub There’s nothing progressive about ‘going green’ if it replicates the traditional models of exploitation in poorer countries. Mike…
The crises of Welsh agriculture
By Sean Thompson In February, Rishi Sunak was accused of pandering to extremists by both farmers and environmental groups in…
The Next Mass Extinction?
From NY Review of Books Oliver Whang As avian influenza spreads to the farthest reaches of the planet, scientists have…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
‘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)…