Five fails in UK climate emergency action

Five fails in UK climate emergency action

As the UK is revealed to be the biggest net importer of carbon dioxide emissions per person in the G7 group of wealthy nations, heterodox economist Katie Kedward spells out five reasons to question the UK government’s progress on tackling the...
Rising seas and Extinction Rebellion: policing the wrong problem

Rising seas and Extinction Rebellion: policing the wrong problem

Bill McGuire, Prof. of Geophysical & Climate Hazards, says that policing Extinction Rebellion looks like displacement by state authorities unwilling to act on rising seas In the battle against global heating and climate breakdown there are, at present, two front...
Climate Breakdown? We need to talk about the Treasury

Climate Breakdown? We need to talk about the Treasury

Extinction Rebellion held a People’s Assembly in Parliament to identify new priorities for each government department, this is an adapted from Andrew Simms’ short speech on the challenge to the Treasury When he led the Treasury as Chancellor of the...
Why Caroline Lucas should be the interim PM

Why Caroline Lucas should be the interim PM

By David Boyle and Andrew Simms When car-crash politics proves such irresistible and distracting theatre, it is even more important to maintain a focus on our central, generational challenge, the prevention of climate and ecological breakdown, whatever happens with...
The Green New Deal – now make it happen…

The Green New Deal – now make it happen…

We all know there is a climate emergency, but what we can do about it? Any action capable of working at the speed and scale needed looks like a Green New Deal. Now there’s a proposal before Parliament to deliver one. Here’s Caroline Lucas writing in The...