Denounce the brutal El-Sisi regime – but don’t boycott COP27 First published on Alan Thornett’s Ecosocialist Discussion website There is a debate emerging, on the environmental left, over whether to…
The latest drought exposes the abject failure of Tory water privatisation From iNews OPINION By Paul Waugh Chief Political Commentator The drip-drip process of a shift to greater state regulation and intervention…
Can ‘green laws’ stop climate change? First published at RS21.org Renton’s article, written from within the legal profession, is a corrective to the ‘legal activist’ view…
Biden’s Climate Act- a potential game changer First published on Alan Thornett’s website Ecosocialist Discussion Joe Biden’s Climate Act – confusingly called the Inflation Reduction Act –…
‘Grotesque greed’: immoral fossil fuel profits must be taxed, says UN chief Also from The Guardian, a report of a remarkably hard hitting speech by Antonio Guterres. António Guterres urges governments to…
Italian factories on strike over extreme heat after worker dies From Italian paper The Local, this report follows the discussion about union solidarity which we posted yesterday. Italian factory workers…
Union solidarity in a warming world From the IPS Journal 02.08.2022 | Christy Hoffman As heatwave after heatwave sweeps across Europe and beyond, unions are stepping up their…
‘Soon the world will be unrecognisable’: is it still possible to prevent total climate meltdown? An alarming article by Robin McKie in The Guardian… Record high temperatures and extreme weather events are being recorded around…
How Lyme Disease Became Unstoppable From The Nation. There was nothing inevitable about the Lyme epidemic. Then humans disrupted the environment and fueled an era…
Global heating scorches ‘Cool Britannia’ Our friend Pritam Singh writes in The Tribune, India. Global heating caused by the use of fossil fuels creates a…