Covid-19: a frightening future looms
Today’s model of human society with its highly destructive relationship with nature is placing our own continued existence directly at risk
Climate Change
King of a dead planet
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.
Climate action in Scotland stepped up
Extinction Rebellion Scotland (XRS) have launched three weeks of action to highlight opposition to the climate and ecological crisis across the country. Other campaigns are [...]
Cometh the [midnight] hour, cometh the book!
Allan Todd reviews Derek Wall’s 2020 Climate Strike: The Practical Politics of the Climate Crisis published by Merlin Press. This book had me from its very first page, with [...]
International Earth Day and Covid-19
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.
‘The bell is tolling’ on Heathrow expansion
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.
Thirteen theses on the imminent ecological catastrophe and the (revolutionary) means of averting it
Michael Löwy argues that the ecological crisis is already the most important social and political question of the 21st century.
The climate war is here
Pip Hinman in Sydney reports how the devastating fires have exposed the government’s failure to respond to the climate emergency.
Labour’s Green New Deal
Labour’s manifesto represents the most radical environmental offer ever proposed by a major party challenging for government.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez inspires Labour’s GND
Alan Thornett reviews A Planet to Win – Why We Need a Green New Deal by Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen and Thea Riofrancos, (London, Verso, 2019). 208 pp. £10.99
