Labour’s manifesto rightly disappointed many climate advocates, on balance, but risk-averse Starmer has a clear route back to leadership on climate – as impacts escalate, only national adaptation will maintain a majority. By Liam Kavanagh and Rupert Read The UK has for three months now had a new Labour Government that has been content to […]
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Conservatives could actually take a lead on the environment – especially if Labour is complacent, and doesn’t reverse the backtracking on its climate pledges which has serially occurred over the last several months …
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By Michael Albert (University of Edinburgh) Can the needs of the planet be reconciled with the need for economic growth within our capitalist economy? This is one of the biggest questions that divides sustainability researchers. Broadly speaking, there are three main positions in this debate: green growth, degrowth, and growth agnosticism (or “a-growth”). While I
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“As a woman in her twenties who has worked to promote mainstream climate action with the Climate Majority Project for the past two years, here are my thoughts on the kind of education we need in the coming decades: The adults of today, who grew up learning that somehow “everything is OK”, often are those
IAN SINCLAIR recommends the Climate Majority Project book “that points to ‘deep societal transformation’ as the only way to arrest climate change” on the Morning Star.
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What will our future be – a Phoenix, Dodo or Butterfly? Read this short opinion piece for a vivid image of three possible scenarios for 2034: one illustrating a disaster-struck East Anglia emerging from its ashes, another highlighting the possibility of agricultural and societal collapse, and a third, presenting our “caterpillar-like civilisation, which has been
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“There is no future in which we do not transform this civilisation, and adapt to the damage that is baked in, and the worse damage that is coming […] If, instead of the fantasy climate politics still prevailing at the COPs [UN Conference of the Parties], we pragmatically appraise the situation we are in, and
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For too long the choices on climate action have been limited to either consumer choices or radical protests, and there needs to be a space for action between these two alternatives. This is why we started the Climate Majority Project – a new approach to gain broad-based consensus on how to meaningfully respond to the
CMP team member and business campaign organiser Helena Farstad in this piece delves into the personal challenges of living a low emissions lifestyle in the Sussex that could also be affordable for her family: “The practicalities we’ve come up against in our own transition have led me to query exactly how our government is planning to decarbonise
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As the climate crisis has escalated over the last decade, there has been a conspicuous absence of films that mirror the predicament we are faced with. Climate philosopher and activist Rupert Read responds to the recently released ‘The End We Start From’, a mainstream drama that attempts to portray the reality of what may come
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