First the good news – it is still possible to avoid a climate apocalypse. And the bad news? It is already too late to avoid climate catastrophe! This is the verdict of the United Nations’ […]
The mining company, Flintridge Resources, will be allowed to drill boreholes as ‘permitted development’ at a controversial goldmine at Cavanacaw, four miles upwind of Omagh town centre, in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The five establishment […]
An unprecedented heatwave in Canada and the US Pacific north west has left hundreds dead and caused destructive wildfires. Extreme weather events like this are consistent with global heating producing climate change. However, ‘big energy’, […]
US President Joe Biden has rightly described climate change as an “existential threat to humanity.” But tackling that threat will require more than just recognising it – rapid and far-reaching action is needed. Will his […]
Are ‘green’ and digital technologies environmentally friendly? The transition to green and digital technologies is portrayed as the way to move to zero carbon emissions and a clean environment by reducing our dependency on nuclear […]
The covid crisis has once again revealed the incapacity of capitalism to meet society’s needs. The former assistant general secretary of the PCS civil servants’ union (UK), Chris Baugh, who during his term of office […]
A widely-reviewed recent book by David Wallace-Wells, ‘The Uninhabitable Earth – A story of the future, presents a grim picture of the future consequences of continuing global warming. But the real story of the future […]
Friday 29 November saw the broadcast of the first ever election debate over climate change – no doubt arranged in response to the global mobilisation of young people protesting for immediate action to be taken […]
“Even an entire society, a nation or all simultaneously existing societies taken together are not owners of the earth, they are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state […]
Recent images of the Amazon rainforest ablaze highlighted the scale of change currently underway. At the height of the fires, an area the size of a football pitch was destroyed every minute. Greenland’s ice sheet […]
The Amazon rain forest in Brazil is battling massive fires. They are so extensive they can be seen from space. The Amazon has been called the ‘beating heart of the earth’ and the ‘lungs of […]
Ever since the initial warnings of global warming 70 years ago, the starkest feature is capitalism’s inability to act on this existential threat. The Environment: a history of the idea tracks this trail of systemic […]
Since the beginning of 2019, young people have been walking out of their schools and colleges to demand urgent action from the politicians on climate change. Millions internationally are searching for solutions to the climate […]
Protests against climate change and capitalism’s degradation of our environment have been growing. Now the world’s leading scientists warn that human society is in jeopardy from the accelerating decline of Earth’s natural ‘life-support systems’.
Last week, thousands took part in Extinction Rebellion protests in central London, with over 1,000 people arrested. Mark Best looks at the background to the campaigning group and what socialists think needs to be done […]
On Friday 15 March, tens of thousands of school and college students are expected to once again walk out of their classrooms to join the global strikes against climate change. The last strike, on 15 […]
School students’ protests put coal commission under pressure
Recent research in the journal Nature Geosciences, mainly by scientists based in Britain, on the possibility of limiting global warming to a 1.5C rise above pre-industrial levels has been seized on by climate change sceptics.
“The planet has almost reached its limits” said Eva Dimokoustoula from Xekinima (Greece section of CWI) in opening the commission on the environment at the 2017 CWI Summer School.
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25 years of hot air from establishment
The growing threat of climate change and a socialist programme for the environment
The cyclone that devastated the Pacific island of Vanuatu in March, the most severe ever recorded in the region, highlighted again the very likely connection between extreme weather events and global warming.
Have capitalist governments around the world finally woken up to the danger of global warming?
The quickening pace of global warming poses a threat to US national security, says a leading, federally-funded military research organisation
To develop a carbon-neutral global economy, economic and political power must be taken out of the hands of the ‘noxious 90’
… but capitalism sets the agenda
Profits from destruction
The latest UN-sponsored climate talks in Doha in December ended in total failure
Pete Dickenson counterposes the alternative of a socialist programme for the environment to this capitalist disaster.
Why Rio+20 will cut no ice
To avoid the worst effects of climate change, decisive action needs to be taken now, but it’s not going to come from the capitalists or their politicians.
Stop big business wrecking the environment
Socialist plan needed
Once again, a United Nations-sponsored climate change conference has completely failed to address the issue of global warming.
When is an agreement not an agreement? When it’s an agreement to reach an agreement in the future…
Japan’s earthquake and tsunami not only ignited catastrophic explosions at the Fukushima nuclear plant, it also sent shockwaves through global energy policy
Resentment and anger need socialist expression
Mass detentions at climate summit last year were illegal
Climate Change is already destroying lives. 21,000 people died as a direct result of extreme weather conditions in the first nine months of this year, a new Oxfam report says.
IT IS still difficult to assess the scale of the disaster that followed the explosion on the BP oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico on 22 April, which killed eleven workers.
Nationalise the oil and gas giants
There was a strong anti-capitalist mood among the 100,000 people who demonstrated outside the Copenhagen climate summit on 12 December.
Democratic planning the only solution
There is new evidence that the threat from global warming is increasing. (Global warming is the rise in the Earth’s temperature due to high concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other so-called greenhouse gases in […]
The tsunami disaster highlighted the dangers of coastal communities being inundated due to cyclones, floods and extreme weather events.
Is there an alternative to global warming?
WORLD ’LEADERS’ are preparing a global publicity stunt – the World Summit on Environment and Development. From 26 August to 4 September, 65,000 delegates from 174 countries will descend on Johannesburg, South Africa. Security will […]
Tens of thousands of delegates will spend hundreds of millions of dollars junketing at the second UN summit on sustainable development in Johannesburg South Africa, one of the biggest international conferences ever held.
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