The exploitation of labour, and the ravaging of nature, is an essential element in shaping the rich world’s economies.
… was a good decision. It’s not working class people flying in those planes”, says Tom. “But working class people do fly”, says Richard. “My neighbour is … a BMW. We’ll never protect the environment if people like that don’t wake up.” This review …
Now is the time to fundamentally transform how our societies produce and distribute energy.
… are made in my paper published today by People & Nature . Economists To early 21st century city people, gas for a stove, electricity for a … fuel for a vehicle, is presented as “energy”. People often refer to “energy” as something …
Now is the time for experts, activists and workers to collaborate on well-designed, affordable and energy-positive buildings.
… buildings. Housing for working people is becoming as central an issue for … down the ages have never done for working people – is indisputable. But Phillips’s … of AC is widely understood by three groups of people, ignored in Phillips’s article, who …
Social movements need to mobilise now and unite people hammered by rising energy bills with protesters who fear climate breakdown.
… movements need to mobilise now and unite people hammered by rising energy bills with … energy strategy in an essay published at People & Nature today . Markets We need social … yet. Such a campaign could unite young people, angry at inaction on climate change, …
We who are active in social movements should try harder to work together with climate scientists.
… Climate scientists are people too Simon Pirani | 20th November 2019 | … Leeds university opened the event and said: “People now feel the urgency in a more visceral … added, and should be used to “empower people, communities and governments”. Many of …
Review of No Miracles Needed: how today’s technology can save our climate and clean our air, by Mark Jacobson.
… comments on them are brief and superficial. People need to “understand what changes they … bring electricity to hundreds of millions of people who do not have it, Jacobson views it … that: "[T]hey do not serve the 940 million people worldwide without access to …
The false narrative that population growth is a key driver of ecological crisis accuses and puts the onus on people in the global south.
… crisis accuses and puts the onus on people in the global south. The false … crisis “accus[es] and put[s] the onus on” people in the global south who bear the brunt … Paul Ehrlich, a leading advocate of “too many people” arguments since the 1970s. Optimism …
The implementation of the Silvertown Tunnel project has steamrolled democracy and will pollute the local area and trash the climate.
… targets. This article first appeared at People & Nature . Campaigners opposed to the … the fabulous new Crossrail, and encourages people to travel by train, or bus, or to walk, … it also impacts on the lives and health of people in the global south. Inquiry A powerful …
Kazakhstan ten years after the Zhanaozen massacre: oil workers’ fight to organise goes on.
… the killings. This article first appeared at People and Nature . Even now, the number of … has become a crucial strand in Kazakh working people’s collective memory. On the day of the … about Zhanaozen have said in interviews with People & Nature that an international …
Climate breakdown is driven by industrial production, production by machines controlled by people. But can those very people demand a new, low carbon production?
… production by machines controlled by people. But can those very people demand a new, low carbon production? … Marxists into Luddites”; another, to “turn people critical of technology into Marxists”. …
More than half of UK oil workers would switch to work on renewable energy if given the opportunity to retrain, new survey shows.
… survey’s authors seem to be the first people who have actually asked workers what … The results excluded replies by 163 people who work in midstream or downstream … failed to reach oil and gas communities – the people who ought to be most central to …
A just transition to a low carbon economy should involve oil companies paying more tax and energy workers having more say.
… Sea oil and gas: the elephant in the room – People & Nature, October 2019 ■ The reaction to the Piper Alpha disaster 1988 – People & Nature Workers The UK tax model was … oil and gas. The report showed that most people who actually work on the North Sea (91 …
An impassioned plea to the Mayor of London to chance his mind about the Silvertown Tunnel - based on local and global climate fears.
… occupant, you replied: “Well, that’s how people live.” The politics of that are pretty … say, deputy mayor Alexander – the right of people driving to their subsidised parking … are not up for negotiation, but working people’s rights are? If the Silvertown Tunnel …
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.
… We watch as people panic-buy loo roll. But behind the … worrying about friends, family and vulnerable people in our communities, the flesh-eating … I am not gloating about this crash. The people who control the money will try to save …
The UK Government focus on electric cars is opposed by researchers of climate science, transport policy, engineering and urban planning.
… reductions. This article first appeared at People and Nature . Read the original - with … "The car takes up space that belongs to the people and this is ignored by councils and … that would alter the nature of journeys people need or want to make, and encourage …
A review of Road to Nowhere: what Silicon Valley gets wrong about the future of transportation, by Paris Marx.
… “not only induces more travel, but encourages people who would otherwise take transit, … cars means buses getting stuck in jams; more people look for cheaper and quicker transport and go for Uber or Lyft; people, especially those with above-average …
Moving away from fossil fuels will require transforming our technological, social, and economic systems, rather than focussing on individual consumption.
… of public anger that has shown, once again, people’s instinctive concern about our … TV channel in China screened it, 80 million people downloaded it. Media coverage of … individual consumption. Appeals are made to people not to buy plastic bags, and coffee …
China’s national and provincial post-Covid recovery packages will put three times as much cash into fossil fuel projects as into renewable energy.
… supply have risen for hundreds of millions of people. Vanity Anyone who thinks tackling … in the 2000s, as hundreds of millions of people moved to towns and new industrial zones … eco-city”; planned for a million people, only a few thousand ever moved in. …
Scientists and researchers admit despair at the failure of politicians to deliver meaningful climate emission reductions.
… are sold. This article was first published at People and Nature . They “negate the effect of … talk about fuel poverty”, she said, “but many people are in transport poverty: for example … combinations of mode shift - encouraging people to travel by bike, public transport, …
Fares for public transport around London should be abolished, says a new campaign briefing from Fare Free London.
… that tackling climate change costs ordinary people money. It shows that the opposite is … big changes to our transport system, to give people decent, clean and affordable ways of … wrote. In a largely working-class city, “people of limited means say they have …
Fossil fuel dependency is driving up the cost of living.
… The UK Government faces a revolt by working people over living standards, of which … might take action too. And millions more people, including those with precarious work … needed, they saw no reason why French working people should pay for it while elite privilege …
Breathe by Sadiq Khan offers a glimpse into the London Mayor's 'internal struggle between action on climate and corporate interests'.
… we breathed always been this bad? How many people were affected? Was air pollution linked … groups oppose the project; thousands of people have demonstrated against it; polling … to Londoners in general, and to young people angry about climate change in …
A plan to pipe hydrogen, instead of natural gas, into millions of UK homes is being pushed hard by the fossil fuel industry.
… heat pumps. Decarbonise It’s an issue many people can unite around – those fighting for … you even think about using hydrogen to heat people’s homes – when technologies that work, … exists on earth combined with other elements. People started fabricating hydrogen from …
A response to After Geoengineering by Holly Jean Buck.
… territory is being submerged, for indigenous peoples in the wildfire-ravaged Amazon, for … a potential threat to hundreds of millions of people who live by farming. Widespread … imply “a different politics” under which people who live on and work the land and own …