Tag: climate change

Want to Save the Climate Justice Movement? Join a Union
The climate justice movement has for too long been confined to the fringes of political discourse because there’s been a clear split between climate and labour organising. This urgently needs to change, argues Chris Saltmarsh.
A New Dark Age?
On #NovaraFM, James Butler is joined by James Bridle, to discuss the politics of technology, silicon prometheanism, how to think about the present – and why nothing seemed to happen after the Snowden leaks.
4 Reasons Heathrow Expansion Serves the Few, Not the Many
Plans for a third runway at Heathrow are being voted on by parliament in June. While the Tories are backing the proposal, Labour have prevaricated on taking a position. Here are four reasons Heathrow expansion only serves a wealthy elite - and why it’s high time Labour took a stand against it.
Raj Patel: a History of the World in Seven Cheap Things
James Butler is joined by author, activist and academic Raj Patel to discuss 'A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things', and explore the relation between climate, capitalism, colonialism – and the future of the planet.
Fossil Fuel Companies Need You to Like Them – That’s Why They’re in Your Community
Big oil companies are targeting local events for sponsorship deals to buy their way into communities in which they have vested interests. We can’t let the fossil fuel industry get away with greenwashing its image, argues Mat Hope.
Divestment Is Now Mainstream. What Next for the Radical Climate Justice Movement?
Last week the University of Edinburgh joined universities and municipal governments across the globe in divesting from the fossil fuel industry. As divestment becomes mainstream, where does the radical climate justice movement go from here?
Climate and Capital: After COP23
James Butler is joined by Asad Rehman and Suzanne Dhaliwal to talk about climate change, global justice, and the aftermath of the latest conference in Bonn.
Climate Change Is Class War – and Fighting It Is a Workers’ Struggle
The climate justice movement is weaker than it should be because workers' struggles weren't embedded within it from the get go, argues Mika Minio-Paluello.
Fully Automated Green Communism
How can we secure luxury for all without careering even faster towards climate catastrophe? Aaron Bastani discusses.
Germany Won’t Save the Environment
Refusing Survival: What Happens If We Don’t Save the World From Climate Change?
After decades of global negotiations and ‘last chances', the creeping feeling that it’s too late to stop catastrophic climate change is rapidly becoming common sense. So what do we do if we can’t save the world?
5 Reasons Climate Change is a Feminist Issue
From the murder of indigenous women fighting resource extraction to carbon footprint reduction initiatives that focus largely on the domestic sphere, climate change is a crisis that is fundamentally gendered. Here are five reasons climate change is a feminist issue.
5 Reasons Not to Be An Environmentalist
Narratives and strategies that frame the environment as abstracted from people and power aren't going to halt climate change. Here are five reasons not to be an environmentalist.
COPs Aren’t Going to Save the World

Tomorrow hundreds of global leaders will descend on the German city of Bonn for COP23 – the next round of climate talks. Clare Hymer explains why COPs aren’t going to save the world from climate apocalypse.
Climate Justice Focus Week
What is climate justice? This week Clare Hymer and Dalia Gebrial are in Bonn at the COP23 negotiations reporting on the side of the climate story you usually don’t hear.
Interview with Asad Rehman
As part of Novara Media's Climate Justice focus week Dalia Gebrial interviewed executive director of War on Want Asad Rehman. They discussed COP23, migration, the Labour manifesto and more.
Interview with George Monbiot
Clare Hymer caught up with George Monbiot about climate change, the media and his new book Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis.
500 Fires in One Day: Lessons From Portugal
Wildfires on the Iberian Atlantic coast have burnt an area of over 58,000 hectares and caused the deaths of at least 45 people. With the government downplaying accusations of mismanagement, the prevention of future catastrophes has to start with comprehensive environmental action.