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.
Tag: climate breakdown
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?
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.
Opinion: It’s High Time Britain Fed Itself
Kai Heron
To mitigate the worst effects of climate breakdown, we need to learn to feed ourselves. But that won’t happen as long as two thirds of England's land is owned by less than 0.4% of the population, argues Kai Heron.
Opinion: Extinction Isn’t the Worst That Can Happen
Kai Heron
For many leftists concerned about the climate crisis living in the Global North, the choice seems clear: it’s socialism or extinction, communism or death. But the truth is that human extinction isn’t even the worst that can happen, argues Kai Heron.
Downstream: Why It’s Eco-Socialism or Collapse
Climate change is better understood as climate systems breakdown, and it’s only through the lens of the latter that we can grasp the scale of the crisis ahead. On this episode of Downstream, Aaron Bastani is joined by Mat Lawrence and Laurie Laybourn-Langton to discuss their new book, Planet on Fire: A Manifesto for the […]
Analysis: Lula’s Back, and Bolsonaro is Feeling the Heat
Benjamin Fogel
Climate and coronavirus breakdown are eroding support for the Brazilian strongman. Could the newly free ex-president hammer the nail in the coffin? Historian of Latin America Benjamin Fogel thinks so.
Analysis: So Far, the Tories’ ‘Green Industrial Revolution’ Is Pure PR. This Year They Have an Opportunity to Change That
James Meadway
A net-zero target with no plan to meet it, billions of re-announced funding - when will we start seeing the substance behind the rhetoric? Possibly at November's climate conference, writes James Meadway.
Review: Can We Solve the Climate Crisis Without Ending Capitalism?
Aaron Bastani
Bill Gates has written a book on how to avoid climate catastrophe. He claims that capitalism, with a historic dose of state intervention, can help us rapidly decarbonise. He might be wrong, but in approaching ‘net zero’ as an engineering problem - rather than a political question - he offers an important perspective from which the left can benefit.
Opinion: The Government’s Inadequate Response to Flooding Is Further Proof It ‘just doesn’t get’ Climate Change
Hannah Martin
Storm Dennis and Storm Ciara are just the latest in a string of increasingly severe weather events that have devastated entire regions, caused mass travel disruption, and confirmed that the UK government has no coherent or credible plan for the challenges our changing climate will inevitably bring, writes Hannah Martin.
Ash Wednesday: Settler Colonialism Is Behind Climate Denial
Australia is on fire. So why do so many of it’s politicians seem intent on denying the cause?
GE2019: We Need to Change the Way We Talk About Climate Breakdown. It Shouldn’t Be This Boring
Adrienne Buller
Last night's climate debate was disappointing. Climate breakdown is a product of the same destructive economic logic that has pushed 14 million people in the UK into poverty, driven record waiting times at A&E, and left the working people of this country overwhelmed by private debt. We must be clear about this, rather than concentrating on boring technocratic details and personal responsibility.
GE2019: This Election Is Where We Decide the Planet’s Future
Eleanor Penny
With vast swathes of the planet quite literally on fire, 71% of Britons agree climate crisis is a more pressing issue than Brexit, writes Eleanor Penny.
But while Labour is offering a potentially transformative Green New Deal, the Tories have an actual fracking lobbyist writing their manifesto.
Ash Wednesday: Ash Sarkar X Extinction Rebellion: Lovebomb the Cops?
Ash Sarkar visited Extinction Rebellion’s Westminster occupation, to find out whether climate change activists still felt so dedicated to peace, love and positivity after hundreds of their mates were arrested for blockading the streets.