George Monbiot on U.K. Climate Emergency & the Need for Rebellion to Prevent Ecological Apocalypse

By Amy Goodman, Nermeen Shaikh, George Monbiot, Democracy Now!

On Wednesday, the House of Commons became the first parliament in the world to declare a climate emergency. The resolution came on the heels of the recent Extinction Rebellion mass uprising that shut down Central London last month in a series of direct actions.

A New Constitution for the UK Needs ‘Rights of Nature’ at its Heart

By Gavin Barker, Open Democracy

We face a stark choice between endless austerity, the removal of rights, accelerating inequality, deepening environmental chaos and ever greater power to the few. Or ‘we the people’ seize the opportunity to re-write the rules by which we are governed and ensure that these place the ‘rights of nature’ at its very heart.