49 years ago, Westminster buried a report on Scotland’s abundant natural resources to suppress growing support for Scottish independence. Laura Webster discusses the consequences.
It’s often claimed that the ‘decolonisation’ debate is just about starting a pointless culture war, and has little to do with real world concerns. This isn’t true, argues Kojo Koram - just look at the roots of the energy crisis.
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.
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 […]
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 […]
Fossil fuels may be on the way out, but there’s no reason to trust firms will wind down quickly enough, or in a way that protects workers. Kate Aronoff looks at how nationalising the sector could work in the US or UK - and argues ultimately it’s a good idea.
As the price of oil plummets what do ‘negative prices’ really mean? And what do they tell us about what next for the global economy? Also, how high is Britain’s real coronavirus death toll? Economist James Meadway joins Aaron Bastani and Michael Walker.
We are always working to improve this website for our users. To do this we use usage data facilitated by cookies and external services. For more information read our Privacy Policy