Mozambique will struggle to ever recover from the impact of Cyclone Idai, with “inland oceans” forming and the main port, Beira suffering 90% damage. Beira is crucial not only for Mozambique but also for landlocked Zimbabwe and Malawi. Mozambique is already the world’s second poorest country with all the inheritances of Portuguese imperialist rule to […]
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There’s nothing green about bio-energy
The Bio-fuel Deception: Going Hungry on the Green Carbon Diet by Okbazghi Yohannes, Monthly Review Press, review by Penny Cole The story of bio-fuels is a moral tale of how marketised, profit-driven responses to climate change will both fail to solve the problem and cause unconsidered damaging outcomes. As millions of hectares of land are […]
Climate change actions for a Corbyn gove...
A programme of climate change action that a Labour government could implement. Presented by Penny Cole to the Momentum South Tyneside-Real Democracy Movement ‘Make 2019 the year Corbyn becomes PM’ event in South Shields, February 23. – Halt all public subsidies for oil and gas extraction, including fracking and north sea oil and gas – […]
Last Climate Tango In Paris – 1
In 2015, the Paris Climate Agreement was agreed. But how effective was it? In a process that has now been running for over 25 years, this 2 part article explores how climate change was kicked into the long grass by the rising tide of neoliberal expansion. The Bruntland Report In 1983 the World Commission on […]
Nemesis: Neoliberalism & Sustainable Dev
Back in the 1980’s, just about anything went. A lot disappeared. But one particular phrase emerged that stuck – sort of. It was called sustainable development. Even Margaret Thatcher thought it was pretty cool. But there was another development that emerged that really stuck. It wasn’t entirely new. It had been around for centuries in […]
States abandon people to climate-driven ...
The flooding in South Texas, Louisiana and beyond is an expression of the crisis of global and national governance that has abandoned people to the impacts of climate change. The world has watched astonished as the authorities in Houston, one of the world’s richest cities, have been overwhelmed by the unprecedented rainfall brought by Hurricane […]
Galileo for the Corbyn-voting generation
The text of Bertolt Brecht’s play Life of Galileo was started in November 1938 only a couple of months after Neville Chamberlain and Lord Halifax had appeased Hitler and signed the Munich Agreement, and was finished on 1st December 1945 not long after the US had dropped its newly developed atomic bombs on the citizens […]
“Yes to life, no to mining”
In a world first, El Salvador, Central America’s smallest country, has banned metal mining in all its forms to protect its ground water reserves, setting a precedent for other nations to follow. “This is historic; we are sending a signal to the world that countries can take a different path and say ‘no’ to the […]