Review of The New Climate War: the fight to take back our planet, by Michael E. Mann.
… Strategies for the new climate war Simon Pirani | 8th April 2021 | Comment … Review of The New Climate War: the fight to take back our planet, by … and delay. This is the new climate war , and the planet is losing." Also …
Germany’s decision to halt the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline may cause long-term damage to Russia – but Putin doesn’t care.
… The war, the Kremlin, its gas and the pipeline … | Comment Russia Ukraine Gas Nord Stream 2 War Energy Editor’s Picks 2.65001168.jpg … to Russia – but Putin doesn’t care. Russia’s war in Ukraine will capsize its relations with …
The false narrative that population growth is a key driver of ecological crisis accuses and puts the onus on people in the global south.
… human “optimism bias” that ignores expert warnings. The implication is that political … out. Second, they argue, “science-based awareness (or lack thereof) of environmental … Millions of people are “already acutely aware” of the socio-ecological crises described …
Fossil fuel dependency is driving up the cost of living.
… on renewables and heat pumps, the better. War This year’s galloping fuel prices have … and caused a global food price shock. The war, and sanctions on Russia by western … bills to an affordable level”, and to build towards cancelling direct debits from 1 October …
Moving away from fossil fuels will require transforming our technological, social, and economic systems, rather than focussing on individual consumption.
… to levels associated with dangerous global warming – and of how a transition away from … growth accelerated during the post-war boom – and accelerated again in the 1990s … had acknowledged the danger of global warming at the Rio summit of 1992. Throughout, …
Climate breakdown is driven by industrial production, production by machines controlled by people. But can those very people demand a new, low carbon production?
… implicit in automation during the post-war boom, to modern-day resistance to … productivity." These struggles “point towards the only vehicle for a liberation from … Morris’s dispute with the techno-utopian Edward Bellamy; the polemic between Walker …
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.
… The 1930s depression and the second world war, the greatest dislocation of the world … twentieth century, was followed by the post-war boom. That was the longest consistent … lower than in 2019. But their report warns: Even this would not come close to …
Social movements need to mobilise now and unite people hammered by rising energy bills with protesters who fear climate breakdown.
… fuels, and in that way turn back global warming. Here I suggest ways to develop such a … recovered from the pandemic, but shot upwards faster from March, after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Breached The war, and sanctions on Russia by western …
A review of Road to Nowhere: what Silicon Valley gets wrong about the future of transportation, by Paris Marx.
… deployed technologies as weapons in the class war. In the midst of the gathering climate … new technology drove greenhouse emissions upwards. Directly contradicting Kalanick’s … fight against capital. Better In a final, forward-looking, chapter, Marx welcomes the …
Oil companies, dictators and greenwashers captured the process at COP27 more effectively than ever.
… new dash for gas, kick-started by the Russian war on Ukraine and Moscow’s decision to … “will not deliver for African communities,” warned Don’t Gas Africa, an alliance of civil … access. As the climate talks have lurched towards greenwashing, protests and direct …
The exploitation of labour, and the ravaging of nature, is an essential element in shaping the rich world’s economies.
… it’s “our” thinking that needs to shift, towards better understanding these structures … of which individuals do not need to be aware”. Purchasing a car – Richard, whose … promoted by US governments in the post-war boom and later encouraged in some European …
Protest at political inaction on climate breakdown has reinforced opposition to the Silvertown tunnel project in east London.
… although Hackney, Lewisham, Newham and Southwark local councils are against. Contracts are … when the climate change danger means moving towards transport systems with fewer cars. … introduced in the USA before the second world war, and have spread across the world since …
Oil workers stage biggest industrial action since the general strike of 1978-79 that helped toppled the Shah’s regime.
… that started after the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988) and the massacre of the … of oil and gas production is relentlessly upwards. So was the trend of revenues from …
We watch as people panic-buy loo roll. But behind the scenes traders are panic buying gold bars as world markets crash - and there are none left.
… activity that is unprecedented in postwar history”. Financial markets have crashed. The upward trend in the prices of companies’ shares … that it risks overshadowing the price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia...The …
Deng Yingtao presented a scathing critique of economic growth thirty years ago - finally we must listen.
… horrendous dangers brought about by global warming. Deng Yingtao made a compelling … environmentalists, but ignored stark warnings made at the heart of the elite … leaders of the western powers – whatever war of words was going on between them. These …
Now is the time for experts, activists and workers to collaborate on well-designed, affordable and energy-positive buildings.
… and architects, by contrast, are well aware of these potentialities. In the UK labour … reductions in gross energy requirements of upwards of 75 percent in new buildings, and upwards of 50 percent in existing buildings. It …