Environment
2022 was hottest year ever
2022 was officially the UK’s hottest year on record. The Met Office has confirmed that climate change has driven the UK into its first year with an average temperature above 10°C. There’s no sign of […]
Environment
Environment
Climate change and the coalition policies of Scottish Greens
The Scottish Green Party operates a de facto coalition with the Scottish National Party (SNP) at Holyrood. There was much made about the historic agreement that, in August 2021, saw Greens take up government roles […]
COP27
Egypt’s repressive regime a hypocritical host of COP27
Those attending the COP27 United Nations climate change conference at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh won’t see the environment most Egyptians live in. Blue sea and sky, coral reefs, air-conditioned hotels and conference […]
Environment
Global Warning: COP27 summit set for failure
Summer 2022 saw the hottest temperatures since records began, during capitalism’s industrialisation period in the 1850s. No area of the planet was untouched by scorching heat waves. Even the measures to secure water supplies and […]
Environment
Tory government ends moratorium on fracking
One of new British prime minister Liz Truss’ first announcements was to end the moratorium on fracking, in force since 2019. The ban was introduced after fracking-induced earthquakes, protests, and direct action at Preston New […]
Environment
Heatwave exposes cracks in the broken profit system
Record-breaking temperatures have affected much of Europe and most of the UK, with temperatures exceeding the highest previous temperature by several degrees in Wales and touching 40 degrees in England. Despite health advisers and the […]
Environment
Ireland North: Establishment parties allow drilling at controversial goldmine
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 […]
Environment
COP26: Socialist change to end the climate crisis
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’, […]
Environment
The dark side of ‘clean energy’
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 […]
Environment
Is there still time to stop catastrophic climate change? A socialist response
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 […]