Moving away from fossil fuels will require transforming our technological, social, and economic systems, rather than focussing on individual consumption.
Climate action will change technological systems Simon Pirani | 18th September 2018 Comment Science & Systems Fossil Fuels History Capitalism Climate Change 6827808364_bab92625a9_o.jpg Moving away …
Now is the time for experts, activists and workers to collaborate on well-designed, affordable and energy-positive buildings.
We need to talk about technology Simon Pirani | 5th October 2018 Comment Air Conditioning Technology Energy Climate Change 3859654-3x2-600x400.jpg Now is the time for experts, activists and workers …
Protest at political inaction on climate breakdown has reinforced opposition to the Silvertown tunnel project in east London.
… and a long-standing local campaign group have joined forces against the tunnel, which would … of transport emissions. Most car journeys are in cities, and urban transport … repeatedly shown that they produce more car journeys – so-called “induced traffic” – over …
The Labour party conference adopted the most radical climate policy of any in a G20 economy - but there will be battles ahead: with the leadership, and with union bosses.
… guaranteeing “an increase in good unionised jobs” and ensuring that the cost is “borne by the wealthiest, not the majority”. It also called for “public ownership … passed on 24 September by an overwhelming majority, with support from trade unions …
We who are active in social movements should try harder to work together with climate scientists.
… social change: the appeals were, rather, for “joined-up government policy”. The event was … are market-based ones, and government’s job is to balance the interests of those …
We must push for social and climate justice to be at the heart of recovery efforts as big capital works out how to profit from Covid-19.
… pandemic has given human society a jolt, sent the world economy into … permanent reduction in commutes and other car journeys, and air travel. Good points. On the … of control by the largest oil majors” – and that We face the very real danger …
Deng Yingtao presented a scathing critique of economic growth thirty years ago - finally we must listen.
… division of labour”, which had proved a “major obstacle to modernisation” for developing … developmentalism”, the political scientist Joseph Fewsmith wrote. The industrial … ownership, shares markets took root, and joint ventures were established with …
Local, community-led testing and contact tracing must be built into an enhanced public health protection system.
… Tuddenham, writing in the Health Service Journal , denounced the government’s approach … target had not distracted from the need for a joined-up public health strategy including …
The UK Government cannot claim to be dealing with climate change and build the Silvertown Tunnel.
Silvertown Tunnel: stop digging Simon Pirani | 22nd June 2020 News Silvertown Tunnel Transport Funding Infrastructure Science Systems new-silvertown-protest-1024x728.jpg The UK Government cannot …
Leeds Trades Union Council leads national demand for large-scale investment to insulate homes.
… networks, could create tens of thousands of jobs. By the mid-2030s, such a drive could require more than 300,000 jobs. Renewable The TUC urges “democratic … of the largest unions had no hesitation in joining with the energy companies in support …
More than half of UK oil workers would switch to work on renewable energy if given the opportunity to retrain, new survey shows.
… oil must be produced, supposedly to preserve jobs. The 1,383 offshore workers who responded to the survey crave job security, above all. Nearly half of them … gas. Asked, “would you consider moving to a job outside of the oil and gas industry?”, …
A plan to pipe hydrogen, instead of natural gas, into millions of UK homes is being pushed hard by the fossil fuel industry.
… electricity and heat pumps - could do the job better? You wouldn’t. Unless you were … need carbon capture and storage – have joined the queue for state funding. These …
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) systems put more greenhouse gases into the air than they take out.
… projects recently listed by an oil industry journal (one of which, Petra Nova, is … found that, for DAC enthusiasts, the “major, but generally ignored policy issue” is: … who support CCS, supposedly to “protect jobs” but actually to give a new lease of life …
A just transition to a low carbon economy should involve oil companies paying more tax and energy workers having more say.
… Workers who hope to move to offshore wind jobs are further aggrieved by an unjust, … the very moment when they are looking for a job and short of money. Many companies add … like. Jake Molloy of RMT pointed to the huge job, now starting, of decommissioning old oil …
Low carbon? Hydrogen greenhouse emissions globally are more than twice that of the entire UK economy.
… in it; union leaders say it will create jobs. See also: Hydrogen for homes is a terrible idea. We should fight it Boris Johnson, the UK prime minister, put hydrogen …
China’s national and provincial post-Covid recovery packages will put three times as much cash into fossil fuel projects as into renewable energy.
… on climate resemble Angela Merkel’s or Boris Johnson’s, the disconnect between word and … states have ceded to the markets. Rich While Johnson’s inadequate climate targets disappear … in heavy industry and has been a major part of the story of coal investment in …
The UK Government focus on electric cars is opposed by researchers of climate science, transport policy, engineering and urban planning.
… policy that reduces the number of car journeys, and the speed and number of cars, … climate-damaging carbon emissions," wrote John Whitelegg of the Foundation for … and switch all the funding to world-best joined up thinking about transport”. Emissions …
Review of The New Climate War: the fight to take back our planet, by Michael E. Mann.
… Protesters He rightly derides claims by Bjorn Lomborg and other climate science deniers … achievement”. He complains that the journalist David Wallace-Wells, by questioning … expecting public criticism comes with these jobs. Third and most important, we can not …
Climate breakdown is driven by industrial production, production by machines controlled by people. But can those very people demand a new, low carbon production?
… Luddites were right about why you hate your job (Verso, 2021). He challenges “Marxist … Graeber, decades later, called “bullshit jobs”. Some technocratic Marxists suggest – …
The false narrative that population growth is a key driver of ecological crisis accuses and puts the onus on people in the global south.
… in Conservation Science , an academic journal, this month. They argue that, instead … pandemics and resource scarcity, crowding and joblessness, deteriorating infrastructure and … colleagues argued in a 2019 article in the journal Geoforum . Scarcity “remains a …