The climate crisis is at the top of young people's agenda but political parties are failing to meet their concerns. Is electoral reform the only hope of change?
Climate Change
Last Monday, I wrote about the global need for us to abandon meat production for food, and, instead take up plant-based diets. Many people interpreted that argument as a personal attack on their dietary freedom, which indicates they fell into a fallacy of composition trap and declined to see the global issue. As part of…
"While accountability is critical to democracy, a democratic system of government alone is insufficient to fend off impunity."
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BP has reported record annual profits - while also scaling back plans to reduce the amount of oil and gas it produces by the end of the decade
By Christian Downie, Australian National University and Robert Brulle, Brown University / The Conversation You’ve probably seen ads promoting gas and oil companies as the solutions to climate change. They’re meant to be inspiring and hopeful, with scenes of a green, clean future. But shiny ads are not all these companies do to protect their commercial interests in the […]
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This is Part 6 of a series on Deep Adaptation, Degrowth and MMT that I am steadily writing. I have previously written in this series that there will need to be a major change in the composition of output and the patterns of consumption if we are to progress towards a sustainable future. It will…
‘It needs to be understood how governments have facilitated inequality in the world. Billionaires don’t happen naturally. The rules by which a country’s economy operates is controlled by governments. If …
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By Ralph Nader The word “inequality” is everywhere in the media. It usually refers either to race, gender, rich vs. poor, or other differences between human beings. Absent from the public debate is the biggest perpetrator of “inequality” against human beings – the corporate entity itself. Ever since 1886 when a U.S. Supreme Court reporter, […]
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Adaptation to the effects of climate change remains 'overlooked', according to a new report by the Government's independent advisory body on tackling the issue
Sam Bright reports on the scale of pollution being pumped into the North Sea