Opinion: Flat SUV Tyres and Soupy Van Goghs: 2022 Was a Vintage Year for Climate Protest
by Clare Hymer
The government's insatiable protest crackdown has forced climate activists to get creative this year, writes Clare Hymer.
Tag: climate breakdown
Opinion: The GMB Is Completely Wrong About Fracking. Here’s Why
by Aaron Bastani
The GMB trade union has said the Tories are right to lift the fracking ban, claiming it could ‘create thousands of good jobs’ at little cost to the climate. This is completely wrong, writes Aaron Bastani.
Report: Animal Rebellion Activists on Why They’re Emptying Supermarkets of Milk to Save the Climate
by Sophie K Rosa
Animal Rebellion is mid-way through a two-week direct action campaign that claims to have emptied supermarket shelves of milk, in a bid to force the government to support a just transition away from animal agriculture. Sophie K Rosa reports.
Downstream: How the Mainstream Media Enabled Climate Denial
Aaron Bastani speaks to George Monbiot about COP26, which countries are climate change leaders and how the mainstream media enabled a culture of climate denial when it mattered most.
Planet B: Esther Stanford-Xosei on the Case for Climate Reparations
We can't transition into a green future unless we reckon with our past, argues reparationist Esther Stanford-Xosei.
Planet B: Planet B: Jayati Ghosh on Escaping the Debt Trap
Fighting climate breakdown means facing up to the imperial hierarchies of debt, as development economist Jayati Ghosh explains.
Planet B: Planet B: Everything Must Change – Debt
In the final episode, we ask why climate reparations could be crucial to securing a global Green New Deal.
Planet B: Asad Rehman on the Making of the Climate Refugee
What will happen to the billions of people displaced by climate breakdown? A global Green New Deal must have an answer.
Planet B: Harsha Walia on Border Violence and Eco-Fascism
National policies won't solve a global problem like climate change, says migrant justice activist Harsha Walia.
Planet B: Planet B: Everything Must Change – Migration
Climate breakdown means the displacement of billions of people. Who benefits at the border?
Downstream: Climate Change Is Violent, That’s Why We Need Sabotage. Aaron Bastani Meets Andreas Malm
From food scarcity to extreme weather, climate change will affect the lives of billions of people around the world. But at what point are its future horrors unacceptable? And how should that shape climate politics now? Aaron Bastani speaks to author Andreas Malm about the limits of today’s activism and what is to be done […]
Planet B: Laleh Khalili on Sovereignty and Seafarers
From city ports to the open sea, worker exploitation and environmental degradation are both rife and invisible.
Planet B: Julian Brave NoiseCat on Apocalypse and Resistance
The activist and journalist explains why land rights and Indigenous knowledge are crucial to efforts to stop climate breakdown.
Analysis: Is China the World’s Worst Climate Culprit?
by Aaron Bastani
China is easily the world’s leading polluter. But when you take into account the country's size, population, investment in renewables and outsourced emissions things become a lot more complicated, writes Aaron Bastani.
Planet B: Noam Chomsky on Indigenous Demands and Roosevelt’s Legacy
The eminent activist and writer warns against a Green New Deal that would save capitalism instead of dismantling it.
Planet B: Planet B: Everything Must Change – Land
Harpreet Kaur Paul asks how we can make land for living, not for profit, in the second episode of the series.
Planet B: Sarah Jaffe on Green Work or No Work
Why the promise of "good, green union jobs" isn't enough for a just transition.
Novara FM: Revenge of the Real
Benjamin Bratton on solving the climate crisis with planetary-scale politics.