The facts of climate breakdown are scientifically established - so don't get lost in BBC Radio Four's latest Moral Maze.
… Gareth Dale | 15th February 2022 | Comment Climate Breakdown Editor’s Picks BBC … The facts of climate breakdown are scientifically … Elvis Presley and the birth of a new age in climate politics. By an odd quirk of fate, the …
A review of Andreas Malm's Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century.
… A review of Andreas Malm's Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in … Century. What can a virus tell us about climate breakdown—in its causation, and in … is tempo : the varying velocities of climate collapse, locust swarms, zoonotic …
The 'Absolute Zero' report demonstrates how the UK can deliver on its climate change commitments. In doing so, it debunks technological utopianism - but what of economy and class?
… Of Cambridge Absolute Zero Emissions Climate Change Technology Economy … demonstrates how the UK can deliver on its climate change commitments. In doing so, it … It aims to show how the UK can deliver on its climate change commitment, as laid down in The …
The IPCC report pulls its punches - while economists are still punch drunk when it comes to ignoring the climate risks of economic growth.
… The Nobel Prize in climate chaos Gareth Dale | 12th October 2018 Comment Nobel Prize Climate Change Romer Nordhaus Ipcc … punch drunk when it comes to ignoring the climate risks of economic growth. Two news …
Is geoengineering realistic, is it safe - or is it just sleight of hand?
… Engineering the climate could cost us the earth Gareth Dale | 30th August 2018 Comment Climate Change Geoengineering Capitalism … just sleight of hand? Engineering the earth’s climate is nothing new. Capitalists, in …
Boris Johnson’s calculated error: climate migration and civilisation collapse, from Ancient Rome to COP26.
… Boris Johnson’s calculated error: climate migration and civilisation collapse, … and unless we get this right in tackling climate change, we could see our civilisation, … the borders and sacked the Eternal City. Climate change, we might add, was a likely …
The leaders gathered at COP26, with the British government to the fore, remain in the thrall of technology fetishism.
… from the Global North, when addressing the climate crisis, a business approach must … down fossil fuels. “ The marketplace ,” U.S. climate envoy John Kerry assured journalists … are emerging every day of the influence of climate deniers and the fossil-fuel lobby at …
The extreme heat of the upcoming El Niño years should compel us to subordinate profit motives to urgent climate goals. This article first appeared at Truthout.
… El Niño accelerates climate breakdown: it’s time for action Gareth Dale | 26th June 2023 | Comment Climate Breakdown Editor’s Picks El Nino Cost … us to subordinate profit motives to urgent climate goals. This article first appeared at …
Jet Zero is a charade, driven by considerations of profit, economic growth and aviation's corporate consumers.
… Jet Zero: a one way ticket to climate hell Gareth Dale Josh Moos | 31st August 2021 | Comment Climate Breakdown UK Government Jet Zero … in the aviation industry’s recipe book for climate inaction, as outlined in the British …
The second in a three-part interview on capitalism and climate breakdown from Political Economy for the End Times.
… Jack Copley | 7th April 2020 News Capitalism Climate Breakdown Economy Degrowth Green … in a three-part interview on capitalism and climate breakdown from Political Economy for … capitalist competition can outpace the climate breakdown by rebooting the capitalist …
The third in a three-part interview on capitalism and climate breakdown from Political Economy for the End Times.
… Comment Green New Deal Green Growth Economy Climate Breakdown Capitalism Strategy … in a three-part interview on capitalism and climate breakdown from Political Economy for … landscape of debate around the question of climate breakdown and made a radical politics …
The degrowth movement is on the ascent, and Marxists are joining the debate, spurred by Kohei Saito's best-selling book on "degrowth communism".
… Degrowth in the age of the climate emergency Gareth Dale | 31st March … (green growth, efficiency and technology, climate Keynesianism, circular economy, … from Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright’s Climate Leviathan (2018), Saito sketches …
Degrowth and its opponents recognize the necessity of mass movements and system change to address the climate emergency.
… August 2023 Comment Degrowth Green New Deal Climate Change Climate Breakdown Emissions Economic Growth … movements and system change to address the climate emergency. Degrowth, a movement …
A review of Aaron Bastani, ‘Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto’ published on 11 June 2019 by Verso Books.
… Climate, communism and the Age of Affluence? … Automated Luxury Communism Marxism Communism. Climate Change Neoliberalism Verso … Aaron Bastani’s overriding concern is climate breakdown. Anything over a 2°C rise …
Special Investigation: It’s not ‘Jet Zero.’ It’s not even net zero. It’s plane insanity - and we’re heading for a hard landing.
… Dale Josh Moos | 27th August 2021 | Comment Climate Breakdown Editor’s Picks Jet Zero UK … floods and woodland infernos, old-style climate denialism is as good as dead. From the … partnership bodies . Largely frozen out are climate scientists and the environmental …
The first in a three-part interview on capitalism and climate breakdown from the podcast Political Economy for the End Times.
… in a three-part interview on capitalism and climate breakdown from the podcast Political … the twist that comes with the inertia of climate processes, including oceanic thermal inertia, and because of the role of climate feedback mechanisms in accelerating …
'Jet zero' is basically just pie in the sky - according to a powerful new report published today by the Royal Society.
… Dale Josh Moos | 28th February 2023 | Comment Climate Breakdown Jet Zero UK Government … floods and woodland infernos, old-style climate denialism is as good as dead. From the … partnership bodies . Largely frozen out are climate scientists and the environmental …
'For the rich, much much less, while for the billions who lack the basics: more good food, better housing, abundant clean water...'
… Green New Deal Labour For A Green New Deal Climate Breakdown Climate Change Editor’s Picks … abundant clean water...' Radical action on climate change is at last on the agenda. The …
How does capitalism condition the ways in which we measure, imagine and weaponise time - and what does this mean for our future?
… giants). It’s the polite liberal etiquette of climate change: rhetorical dedication, … The urgent scientific message on climate change finds it hard to cut through … today is a jet-set magnet, thanks to its climate and elevation - ideal for skiing. Back …
The great acceleration - in GDP, population, cities, travel, deforestation, pollution - is on some metrics stuttering. What does this mean for a just transition?
… , industrial livestock agriculture and climate change. Bridges burning In Slowdown, … change. After briefly conceding that climate feedback loops may “come into play in … us we’re still on the road. In fact, climate change and its effects are generally …
Is the UK Labour party the party of labour - or the party of the oil industrial complex? A short history.
… the Labour party shadow minister for climate change, was fierce. “Oil and gas … heating. It was inexcusable. Knowledge of climate change and even the potential for … states —and to the coal firms too . On climate change, the talk was of partnership …
Len McCluskey, the leader of the Unite union, supported the vote for a third runway at Heathrow Airport and called for Labour MPs to vote with the Tories and DUP. GARETH DALE argues this was a set back for trade unionists the world over
… over The trade unions will be crucial to climate-change mitigation and adaptation. But … hardest will be in territories vulnerable to climate change: in South and East Asia, the … questions, including issues such as climate change that pose major challenges to …
Liz Truss's decision to overturn the fracking ban in the UK is reigniting grassroots resistance.
… consistently voted against measures to combat climate breakdown and against government … portfolio was handed to Jacob Rees-Mogg, a climate denier and investor in fossil-fuel … tanks and lobby groups with a history of climate science denial, including the Cato …