Today’s model of human society with its highly destructive relationship with nature is placing our own continued existence directly at risk
What will come out of it we will see, since it is vulnerable to crack-pot solutions rather than serious proposals. It is however, a sign of the times and a recognitions the scale and urgency of the problem.
Our starting point, in the best traditions of Earth Day, has to be the defence of the planet itself as a viable living space. We as human beings cannot keep on trashing nature without serious consequences.
Aviation is the fastest growing and most dangerous form of greenhouse gas emissions we face. The impact of CO2 emissions at high altitude is around double of such emissions at surface level—a factor which is conveniently ignored by the international aviation industry and by the Tory government.
Michael Löwy argues that the ecological crisis is already the most important social and political question of the 21st century.
Pip Hinman in Sydney reports how the devastating fires have exposed the government’s failure to respond to the climate emergency.
Labour’s manifesto represents the most radical environmental offer ever proposed by a major party challenging for government.
