By Ana Diaz Vidal, Clara Freudenberg, Isabelle Darmon, Undisciplined Environments
Only by attending to inequalities can universities do away with the carbon fetish and work for actual sustainability. University staff and students, embarked on a UK-wide strike against staff exploitation and rising costs, need to make this point loud and clear!
By Marie-Sol Reindl, Open Democracy
Shell might believe its empire is too big to fall, but so did the absolutist monarchs at one point. So let's continue imagining how Shell could, and eventually will, meet its end.
By Stella Levantesi, DeSmog Blog
For decades, fossil fuel companies have been using PR firms to polish, reinvent, and fabricate their image; protect their reputation; and greenwash their activities, in ways that we are still trying to fully understand.
By Helena Paul, Radical Ecological Democracy
How did we reach this precarious point in our collective existence, and more importantly, can we craft a clear and secure path out of this mess?
By Nick Cunningham, DeSmog Blog
On Wednesday, a group of more than 450 scientists called on advertising agencies to cut off their fossil fuel clients and to end their ties with an ongoing misinformation campaign that has time and again killed progress on addressing the climate crisis.
By B, The Honest Sorcerer
Fossil fuel companies often reach for the tools of greenwashing, but this particular instance unintentionally drops a tiny hint on a completely different story in the background.
By Amy Goodman, Nermeen Shaikh, George Monbiot, Kevin Anderson, Democracy Now
Let's just stop producing this great tidal wave of consumer goods. And let’s find other ways of measuring quality of life...
By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog
And so I leave Glasgow not optimistic or pessimistic, but infinitely more determined. And feeling like the power, the flow, the surge of Friday and Saturday’s tsunamis will carry us forward. I feel it at my back, I feel it in my stomach, and I will feel it forever.
By Joanna Allan, Mahmoud Lemaadel, Hamza Lakhal, Transnational Institute
While an end to the Moroccan occupation and full decolonization are integral to a Saharawi just transition, the SADR government’s ability to ensure popular sovereignty over Western Sahara’s energy resources will also be of fundamental importance.
By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog
The output of COP26 needs to be, as BreakThrough put it, “a ‘big minus’ in emissions, not ‘net zero’ emissions”. But it also needs to communicate acceptance an honest and a truthfulness, that the climate and ecological emergency goes far far deeper than just electric cars and heat pumps, it demands a fundamental reimagining of everything.
By Alice Friedemann, energyskeptic.com
These reports show that the two most popular carbon dioxide removal methods likely to be funded, with taxpayer money, generate more CO2 than they capture.
By Adam Ramsay, Open Democracy
COP26 will be a fight over different possible futures, a battle between social movements and entrenched power; between those desperate to defend the world, and those who prefer to preserve the world order; between reality and spin.