HS2, the UK's £50bn+ high-speed rail project to speed travel between London and Birmingham - and eventually Manchester and beyond is colossal waste of money, writes Rupert Read. The resources should be used to fund sustainable local and regional transport schemes.
… the West Coast main line would return £6.06. Carbon emissions - benefits 'could result' ... … the reduction of negative externalities from carbon emissions, are thus seriously diminished. The carbon reduction argument for the passenger …
Public transport often doesn't work for travellers because it's fragmented, deregulated and operated for short-term profit, writes Rupert Read. A Green transport policy would force operators to coordinate their schedules, integrate multiple transport modes, and entice travellers out of their cars building a real public transport 'system'.
… contribution to reducing the UK's overall carbon emissions by 80% of the 1990 level by … Party) or policy framework aimed at reducing carbon emissions attributable to travel and … the pollution and congestion as well as the carbon footprint) - but how can we expect …
'Apollo-Earth' is a new mission to bring action against climate change to its Tipping Point. Here's what needs to happen and how you can get involved, write RUPERT READ and DEEPAK RUGHANI
… for plantation monocultures, increasing carbon emissions and decimating biodiversity … such as straw and hemp which both lock in carbon and offer insulation benefits. Growing … fossil fuels. The only way we can achieve a 'carbon descent' is by implementing an ‘energy …
The courts have given the private corporation behind HS2 three weeks more to desecrate our ecological heritage.
… the line is wreaking; the vast slug of carbon that is going into the atmosphere from … is incompatible with a 2025 deadline for carbon-zero as called for by Extinction … that we have reached: one where mega-costly carbon-heavy mega-projects need to go extinct… …
Governments should turn to citizens to decide how we’ll work together to build the post-coronavirus world.
… can be expected to worsen as more and more carbon is put into the atmosphere. Decarbonisation All plans to rebuild the economy … crisis must be designed to simultaneously decarbonize the economy and restore ecosystems …
Local Extinction Rebellion groups rise up ahead of a wave of actions on Saturday, 15 December.
… be a contribution to increasing our nation’s carbon emissions at the very time we need to … - is telling us that we need to halve our carbon emissions within a decade. We occupied … Councils and parliament, executive offices, carbon-polluting factories and the like, we …
Only one party is challenging the mainstream concensus on transport, write Rupert Read, Sandy Irvine and Bennet Francis - massive spending on roads and HS2, and the little that's left for everything else. It's time to throw away the old thinking and commit to an effective, sustainable transport system that begins with local needs.
… that scrapping costly investment in the high-carbon economy would be a no-brainer. Yet with … can become an effective replacement for carbon-intensive road and domestic air travel, …
Greens are united in opposing neoliberal 'austerity', write Rupert Read & Sandy Irvine. But there's another kind of austerity to which we are committed - that of living within ecological limits. But base the transition on social, economic and environmental justice, and there will be nothing austere about it. The future we're working for is one of sustainable, life-enhancing abundance.
… harmful new transport infrastructure (roads, carbon-intensive high-speed rail and, soon, … spending on infrastructure within a shrinking carbon budget will tend to increase … will be able to afford to use that invested carbon - over and above basic needs. This is a …
How can Green parties acquire real political power? A new book by Per Gahrton, founder of the Swedish Green Party, is much more than a useful reference text on the history of Green Parties around the world, write Bennet Francis and Rupert Read. It's also a valuable manual in realpolitik that resonates here and now in the UK.
… power is cost competitive with other low carbon technology and is a crucial part of our …
Will we rein in robotisation soon enough to ensure that 'Peak Robot' occurs under our control, and not as a result of a crash forced on us by collapsing ecosystems, asks RUPERT READ
… near complete - decoupling of production from carbon emissions; despite the fact that, as …
Best-selling book The Uninhabitable Earth focusses attention on unprecedented climate breakdown - but places false hope in geoengineering.
… first place. You point out that since “a decarbonised economy, a perfectly renewable … of attitudes and practices which our carbon-fuelled way of life has so dangerously …
The EU referendum debate is taking place between different wings of the corporate elite, dominated by assumptions in favour of big business, free trade and endless economic growth, write Helena Norberg-Hodge, Rupert Read & Thomas Wallgren. But to vote for a sustainable future we must adopt a very different, local perspective - one you'll never find in UK's 'mainstream' media.
… individuals to reduce their personal carbon footprints - actually benefits no one …