The Wood Pellet Industry: A Dual Threat to Poor, Rural Communities
The roots of climate change are inherent in our culture of conquest and domination, a culture that valorizes both power over people and power over nature.
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Drax Accused of ‘Desperate’ Campaign to Influence Selby By-Election Candidates
Drax, the company that runs Britain’s biggest power station, stands accused by residents of “brazen politicking” in a closely fought by-election contest in Selby and Ainsty, North Yorkshire.
UK airlines’ new ‘sustainable’ fuels may be causing deforestation in Asia
The “greenwashing” efforts of UK airlines may be contributing to the destruction of rainforests in Asia, openDemocracy can reveal.
A response to Paul Krugman: Growth is not as green as you might think
As ecosystems are getting nightmarishly worse, the fable of green growth is acting as a kind of macroeconomic greenwashing, especially when mobilised to discredit other, more radical solutions to the ecological crisis.
Wait, Exxon’s Not Going to be an Algae Company?
Exxon makes money—a record $59 billion this past year—by selling you stuff that you burn so then you have to buy some more.
A Window into Louisiana’s Continued Embrace of the Fossil Fuel Industry
I live in South Louisiana on the front lines of the climate crisis and cover the fossil fuel industry and impacts related to the warming planet, so facing gaslighting is a regular occurrence for me.
COP27 will be remembered as a failure – here’s what went wrong
So why did COP27 fail? And what can be done before the next summit – COP28 in Dubai – to ensure progress?
COP27 achieved nothing. No surprises there
Another UN climate meeting has come and gone. Yet again, it will make no difference whatsoever. The fossil fuel industry will continue to expand. Greenhouse gas emissions will increase. The climate crisis will get worse.
‘Carbon capture’ subsidy could let power station keep polluting atmosphere
The owner of Britain’s biggest power station could receive billions of pounds in green subsidies for a flagship ‘carbon capture’ project even if much of the carbon ends up being released into the atmosphere, openDemocracy can reveal.
The Energy Transition Narrative
When I go in search of figures, numbers, data, about energy in relation to ecology and economy, I’m often brought to the website of the very same EPA whose lead scientist studying sewage sludge faked his science and unleashed a toxic torrent upon the world.
When Transition means Transition, and when it doesn’t
This piece represents a return to my roots, to the origins of the word that has defined my life and work for the last 15 years, ‘Transition’.
‘Carbon offsetting’ is just greenwash. Here’s what we need instead
The way we’re going to actually solve problems like the UK’s addiction to carbon-intensive infrastructure isn’t through a series of customers paying companies to ‘offset’ their emissions in some scammy scheme. It’s through mass government action.