Paul Kingsnorth talks to Stephanie Roth, the former Ecologist campaigns editor who has
just been awarded the 'environmental movement's Nobel prize' for risking life and limb
to prevent the exploitation of the largest gold reserves in Europe
… talks to Stephanie Roth, the former Ecologist campaigns editor who has just been awarded the … past three years she has spent organising the campaign against the mine, the former Ecologist campaigns editor has just been awarded the …
A company bidding to undertake 'underground coal gasification (UGC) - a notoriously hazardous and polluting process - in the UK has threatened a Scottish clean energy campaigner: shut up or get sued. Paul Mobbs reports ...
… Coal gas company warns - stop campaigning or we will sue Paul Mobbs | 18th … the UK has threatened a Scottish clean energy campaigner: shut up or get sued. Paul Mobbs … sent a 'cease and desist' notice to Scottish campaigner Mel Kelly. The notice threatens her …
The UK Government's policy is to frack at all costs, against public opinion and compelling evidence of environmental damage and poor returns, writes Paul Mobbs - a timely reminder that as far as the Government is concerned, it has a God-given right to rule over us, no matter what we think or want.
… can learn from. The GMO lesson Firstly, the campaign against genetically modified (GM) … peace movement. genetiX snowball was a great campaign... Then came the civil injunctions … end of the world. Over my three decades as a campaigner I've collected a few, and whilst …
The greatest myth of the consumer society is that modern lifestyles are 'normal' - and this can continue forever because we're clever little apes who can solve any problem, writes Paul Mobbs. That hubris, in the face of insurmountable ecological limits, will be our collective downfall.
… the 1990s, when green politics took power and campaign groups slowly began to take corporate … of this change, were marginalised within many campaign groups. In the neo-liberal world, … of car-based transport. In the 2000s campaign groups traded that analysis for the …
Nobody meets John Papworth and forgets about it in a hurry. Paul Kingsnorth reports on a man who can inspire people – or get right up their noses
… CASE STUDY: 85, and still campaigning for local democracy Paul … Green Lifestyle Politics And Economics Campaigning Case Study Interview_38.jpg Nobody … if you think that you’re going to get it by campaigning for it with no understanding of …
Former deputy editor of the Ecologist, Paul Kingsnorth, explains why he became disillusioned with the parables of environmentalism, so decided to write his own instead
… fifteen years I have been an environmental campaigner and writer. For two of these years … I was deputy editor of the Ecologist . I campaigned against climate change, … for this. The first was that none of the campaigns were succeeding, except on a very …
Post Brexit, get ready for a massive attack on our liberty, especially on the right to protest, writes Paul Mobbs. With the UK likely to secede from the European Convention on Human Rights, prepare for a new empowerment of police to act with impunity against peaceful activists. We must be ready to stand up, with honour and dignity, for our ancient British right to dissent.
… people to be activists?' Now that the leading campaigns groups - Greenpeace, Friends of the … they could use the law, and our history, as a campaigning tool - as John Bugg had for me. … anti-roads, Criminal Justice Act and other campaigns - need to crank themselves back in …
Unnoticed by most of the media, New Labour has embarked on a roadbuilding scheme just as large as the one the Tories bragged was ‘the biggest since the Romans’. All over the UK, however, ordinary people have noticed, and everyone – from doctors and teachers, to old-style road protestors – are once again saying: enough is enough. Paul Kingsnorth reports
… Roads Road Road-building Protestors Activism Campaigns UK Cars Politics And Economics … Jenny, who lives in Wiltshire, has been campaigning for years against the expansion of … came to power, she thought her years of campaigning against new roads were over. These …
Npower, owner of the UK's third largest coal-fired power station, says it will have to black out two million customers if it can't fill this lake with poisonous ash. Paul Kingsnorth investigates
… | 1st November 2006 News Pollution Npower PFA Campaigns Industrial Community Climate Change … have set up a spirited and widely-supported campaign group called Save Radley Lakes. And what their determined local campaign has exposed goes far beyond their …
The UK’s most successful NGO is based in a Dorset village, with no members or PR team. Paul Kingsnorth meets the duo behind it…
… | 1st December 2006 Activism Localisation Campaigning Apple Day Common Ground Local … in the 1970s. King was its first wildlife campaigner, Clifford was on its board, and … in 1982. Common Ground is an environmental campaign group with a difference. It focuses …
Armed and financed by Western corporations, Indonesia is waging a brutal war against a tribal people with little more than bows and arrows to defend itself.
… general Suharto, Jakarta embarked on a campaign to ‘Indonesianise’ its new province … arrival of a new generation of independence campaigners. Many of these came out of a … never before. Here in Britain a new national campaigning organisation, the Free West Papua …
Repulsing the logging invasion of Tasmania’s wet eucalypt forest by Paul Kingsnorth
… pens, badges: the detritus of a political campaign, out here in the middle of the … is in the middle of a general election campaign, and the fate of the nation’s largest … and one of the leading lights in the campaign to protect the old-growth forests. …
Edelman, the global PR group, has a history of aggressive 'consent engineering' for the fossil fuel industry in North America, writes Paul Mobbs. So what are they doing running 'impartial' UK bodies including a Parliamentary group on unconventional oil and gas, and the 'independent' Task Force on Shale Gas? Are they really US-style 'astroturf' bodies designed to fool us all?
… fracking. And though in Scotland that campaign is just getting under-way, in England … any external challenge is to ready a robust campaign that comprises proactive and reactive … database - would organise an on-line campaign, using 35,000 recruited 'activists', …
Little publicised government plans to 'reform' court costs are intended to foreclose access to environmental justice for all but the wealthiest individuals and communities, writes Paul Mobbs. Meanwhile cuts to agencies and regulators will make it ever harder for them to do their jobs - making public participation in environmental protection all the more important.
… judicial review. And no longer can unions or campaign groups sponsor individuals to bring … bad decisions, even for the larger national campaign groups. Of course for medium and … Paul Mobbs is an environmental and peace campaigner. He runs the Free Range Activism …
The Environmental Audit Committee today calls for shale fracking in the UK to be 'put on hold', writes Paul Mobbs. But the EAC is missing an even more dangerous technology that the Infrastructure Bill would support - underground coal gasification.
… be an interesting day for the future of the campaign against unconventional oil and gas in … to. For the public, and anti-fracking campaigners in particular, it's a clear …
The sonic backdrop to our lives is increasingly one of unwanted technospheric noise, writes Paul Mobbs. And as it eclipses the sounds of nature, it's taking its toll on our health, wellbeing and quality of life. So as well as campaigning for more trees, and quieter cars, trucks and aircraft, what's to be done? Let us seek out calm moments of quiet tranquillity - and listen to the birds.
… wellbeing and quality of life. So as well as campaigning for more trees, and quieter cars, … on ecopsychology as part of local environment campaigns, especially for children , could be …
Just as long term research into the health impacts of the 'electrosmog' created by wifi and mobile phones is yielding its first results, it's at risk of sudden termination from President Trump's budget cuts, writes Paul Mobbs. But the cuts have little to do with saving money - and a lot to do with protecting corporate profit and economic growth from harsh truths, including evidence that electrosmog causes cancer in laboratory rats, and maybe humans too.
… lobby groups to environmental and social campaigns. Just like the UK Coalition … public advice. One of the groups leading the campaign against warnings on the use of mobile …
Churches turned into pubs. Brooding Victorian warehouses replaced with sparkly identikit apartments. Family shops and independent cafes bankrupted by Starbucks, Tesco’s et al. When will we wake up to this grim, placeless reality?
… the boaters fought back, mounting a fierce campaign to save the boatyard. It led to … threat as never before. According to the Campaign for Real Ale, 26 pubs close every … locals calling themselves the Save Chinatown Campaign, are currently crossing swords with …
Low oil prices are putting a stop to some of the world's most environmentally damaging 'extreme energy' projects, writes Paul Mobbs, and may close down the entire fracking and tar sands industries. So why are so many 'Greens' issuing dire warnings, instead of celebrating the good news?
… part of the film is when they interview campaign groups, who largely ignore or … refused to appear. Why do media-led campaign groups feel the need to follow 'the …
A consistent pattern is emerging in the UK government's plans and policies, writes Paul Mobbs: the stripping away of human rights and freedoms; the detachment of public institutions from democratic accountability; an increase of the powers of the state; and the empowerment of corporations at the expense of people. We must act to preserve our liberties, while we still can.
Campaigning has never been so easy - sign an Avaaz petition here, send an email there ... and the world is soon put to rights, no? No, writes Paul Mobbs. We must examine the impacts and implications of our e-life, from climate change to corporate dominance, and take control of the technologies we increasingly depend on.
… Ghana. Photo: qamp.net via Flickr. Campaigning has never been so easy - sign an …
Another of the reasons included in the Channel 4 documentary, ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’, to explain the current interest in climate change was that disaffected radicals and political activists had latched on to the concept of a warming climate to foreground their anti-capitalists and anti-progress views. Paul Kingsnorth dissects these claims…
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Are SUVs a crime against civilisation, or paragons of efficiency? Are they ugly, arrogant and antisocial, or bright, beautiful and mobile? And do the polar passions they arouse pit the politics of envy against the Americanisation of British culture? Paul Kingsnorth and Michael Harvey discuss
… such powerful resentment… Fragrant anti-SUV campaigner Sian Berry (the founder member of … issues. You continue to insist that people campaign against SUVs because they are a … battle against car culture. I have been campaigning on transport issues for more than …
UK politicians and officials are studiously ignoring the growing evidence that fracking is an economic and environmental disaster, writes Paul Mobbs. As the circle of 'acceptable' view spins ever smaller, industry PR is dominating a phoney debate that's increasingly remote from reality, public opinion and core democratic principles.
… committees, and has stated that "UK climate campaigners should support fracking for shale … Politicians ask for a 'balanced debate' from campaign groups, and yet much of the imbalance …