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 <title><![CDATA[AP1000 reactor design is dangerous and not fit for purpose]]></title>
 <pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2016 12:56 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Three new reactors are planned for the Moorside site next to Europe's biggest nuclear complex at Sellafield, writes Peter Roche, with a combined capacity of 3.8GW. But a new report for Radiation Free Lakeland shows that the chosen AP1000 reactor design, for all its claimed 'advanced passive' safety features, is not fit for purpose - and should be rejected as unsafe by UK regulators.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Bring back onshore wind, UK's cheapest green power source!]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2016 13:06 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Onshore wind power is effective, hugely popular, and the UK's cheapest form of new power generation, writes Max Wakefield, already competing against gas turbines in prime locations. So why did Cameron's Government ban it? And what will it take to get Chancellor Philip Hammond to reverse that decision next week?]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[No means no! South Australia must dump the nuclear dump]]></title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2016 15:20 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[A 350-member Citizens' Jury convened to decide on whether a massive nuclear waste dump would benefit South Australia just gave the plans a big 'No!', writes Ian Lowe. SA Premier Weatherill must drop his attempt to reverse that decision with a referendum, and accept the jury's well informed, democratic verdict.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[After Trump, no place for climate optimism]]></title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2016 14:02 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[With the election of a 'climate hoaxer' to the US presidency James Dyke's normal optimism that we will deal with climate change in time to avoid the most catastrophic impacts has run out. Now his fears are compounded by the likely appointment of the US's leading climate change denier to run the EPA.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Don't despair about Trump and climate change!]]></title>
 <pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2016 12:33 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The Trump Presidency may not be the climate disaster that many fear, writes Joe Ware. The transition to clean energy is increasingly driven by technology and economics, not politics. it was Obama's 'all of the above' energy policy that enabled the fracking revolution. And pro-fossil fuel measures instituted by Trump will now galvanise massive domestic and international opposition.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Ask not at whom Trump's finger points. It points at thee.]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2016 13:21 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Progressives must begin organizing now, writes Pete Dolack, before Trump takes office and command of the world's most deadly security apparatus. We must demonstrate strong resolve against the right-wing authoritarian rule to come, as a Trump White House will unleash repression on a scale not seen in decades.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[American liberals unleashed the Trump monster]]></title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2016 14:11 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Trump is heading to the Oval Office thanks to the rampant corruption of the US liberal establishment exemplified by Hillary Clinton, the electoral fraud that deprived Bernie Sanders of victory in Democratic primary, and President Obama's failure to deliver his promised 'hope and change' to the millions who elected him.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Dakota Access Pipeline: Native American religion matters!]]></title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2016 17:50 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The intimate connection between landscape and religion is at the center of Native American societies, writes Rosalyn R. LaPier, and a key reason why thousands of Native Americans and Indigenous peoples from around the world have traveled to the windswept prairies of North Dakota. There is no excuse for the ignorance and disrespect of corporations, and government.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[It will take much more than renewable energy to stop global warming]]></title>
 <pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:29 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Renewable energy may play a huge part in helping to achieve the ambitions of the Paris Agreement, now in force and under discussion at COP22 climate talks in Marrakesh, writes Steffen Böhm. But it can never be the whole story, and nor does it relieve the need for deeper changes in how the world works.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Leading Climate Change: The Need for Better Dialogue]]></title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2016 11:30 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[With COP22 on the horizon, it is a critical moment for better dialogue and an unparalleled opportunity to maintain the momentum generated in Paris. Protecting the planet from climate change calls for unprecedented levels of collaboration across countries and a new focus on both the big picture and the longer-term. Given how difficult it can be to talk together about tough issues, what can be done to enable better dialogue asks Leadership Consultant SARAH ROZENTHULER]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Plan to save Mexico's vaquita porpoise won't work without fishers' engagement]]></title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2016 14:47 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The exclusion of fishers from the design of management plans for the vaquita, driven by conservation groups and implemented by the government, has led to polarized opinions and a large divide between communities and conservation agencies, writes Andrew Frederick Johnson. To save the vaquita, this needs to be replaced with a close collaboration.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[A Living Planet? Or endless population growth? We can't have both]]></title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2016 14:09 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Today's Living Planet Report details the ongoing destruction of our natural environment, writes Alistair Currie. One solution that is necessary, realistic, ethical and ultimately unavoidable is to reduce the pressure on our planet caused by population growth.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Hypernormalised? Heathrow plan is proof we exist in a catastrophic fantasyland]]></title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2016 14:19 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[In one reality, the government recognises climate change, signs the Paris agreement, and commits to its 1.5C target, writes Matthew Adams. In another, it promises a new London runway that's predicated on sending aviation emissions soaring for decades to come. Now repeat after me: 'Everything will be fine!']]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[No new runways! Not at Heathrow, not at Gatwick!]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2016 16:26 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Should it be Heathrow or Gatwick? The answer, writes Keith Taylor, is neither. For climate and pollution reasons alone the UK should be scaling back on aviation, and in any case projections of future demand have been monstrously exaggerated. Step 1: a 'frequent flyer' tax on the 15% of people who take 70% of flights.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Wales demands 'objective evidence' before killing badgers. Whatever next?]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2016 11:09 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Wales has achieved enviable success in reducing bovine TB in its cattle herds without killing badgers, writes Lesley Docksey. The farming lobby is still demanding an England-style cull, but the Welsh government's 'refreshed' policy on bTB remains firmly science-based and no badgers will be killed without 'objective evidence' of infection.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[The future of our food depends on small farmers and well cared-for livestock]]></title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2016 18:58 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Abusive farming of animals in factory farms is one of the great cruelties of the modern age, writes Philip Lymbery. While some may justify it as necessary to 'feed the world', it is no such thing. The answer lies in supporting small scale traditional farmers, and respecting the livestock that are intrinsic to sustainable agriculture across the planet.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Canada-EU 'TTIP' trade deal, CETA, down - but not out]]></title>
 <pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2016 18:29 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The EU Council today blocked the progress of CETA, the Canada-EU trade deal, writes Nick Dearden. It's a dramatic reversal for the transatlantic 'free trade' agenda, with the unpopular TTIP US-EU agreement already close to death. But negotiators aren't giving up on their aim to push CETA through, no matter what. Our fight goes on!]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Paris talks, Montreal delivers! Kigali's massive climate victory]]></title>
 <pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2016 13:46 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The 'Kigali Amendment' agreed this weekend to control HFC gases thousands of times more powerful than CO2 is the first major step in delivering the goals of the Paris agreement, writes Nigel Paul - and a second huge success for the Montreal Protocol, originally agreed to save the ozone layer from destruction by CFCs.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Agroecology cools the planet  - so why are Governments backing agribusiness?]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2016 15:56 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[It' a perfect win-win solution for World Food Day, writes Kirtana Chandrasekaran: agroecology that sequesters carbon into soils, making them more fertile, productive and resilient, while also supporting sustainable livelihoods and tackling climate change. But instead governments are desperately trying to attract agribusiness investment that does the precise opposite.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Monsanto on trial? Or 21st century capitalism?]]></title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2016 11:42 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The organizers of tomorrow's International Monsanto Tribunal describe it as a 'moral trial', while the company dismisses it as a 'mock trial' and 'stunt'. The truth, writes Pete Dolack, is that it's about much more than this one company. On trial is the entire neoliberal system of 'free market' finance and monopoly capitalism.]]></description>
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