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
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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.
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