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Ecological, social and and economic justice. Publishing since 1970.
We have to tax the rich enough that our governments can spend enough to change the lives of the rest of us.
'People vote their real lives'
We need progressive governments that make people's real lives better - and then we will win support for environmental policies.
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Welfare might depend not only on what a habitat was, but on what it allowed an animal to do: whether it could choose where to go.
Must whale sanctuary mean the sea?
Millions have been spent building two captive whales a sanctuary that looks - to us - like paradise.
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River pollution, for instance, can reach communities downstream long before oil extraction enters their own territories.
Oil and indigenous communities
Study explores why some Indigenous communities may accept oil extraction despite its harms.
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A community renewable energy company was seriously let down by the grid.
Network failures obstruct community solar
A community renewable energy company was seriously let down by the grid - a stark warning for Britain's necessary transition to low carbon energy.
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Approval of Jackdaw gas field puts profit over people
'A betrayal of all of our futures'
Jackdaw gas field approval triggers backlash from environmentalists.
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“You just see them here swimming around,” Byfleet said. “But being here is like boot camp for the whales.”
Must whale sanctuary mean the sea?
Millions have been spent building two captive whales a sanctuary that looks - to us - like paradise.
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Environmental damage extends beyond individual oil projects
Oil and indigenous communities
Study explores why some Indigenous communities may accept oil extraction despite its harms.
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Britain’s largest community-owned solar project is struggling for survival after the local grid company stopped it from generating electricity for four months.
Network failures obstruct community solar
A community renewable energy company was seriously let down by the grid - a stark warning for Britain's necessary transition to low carbon energy.
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To all those people who argued for new UK gas fields to import less LNG: how do we heat our buildings in 2050 without building up a heat pump industry now?
The Ecologist@theecologist.org · 2w agoSlashing the heat pump scheme is a classic piece of Treasury short-term thinking.
We should never underestimate the power and influence of the fossil fuel companies. It’s a bit like the tobacco industry a few decades ago. Same play book. Only problem now is that we are running out of time.
The Ecologist@theecologist.org · 2w agoEven today, in the midst of climate breakdown, the interests of BP and Shell are mixed with the so called 'national interest'.
Let’s eradicate our life support systems – that’ll teach the liberals! It's not just about giving destructive industries what they want, important as this is. The likes of Trump and Bolsonaro will kill the planet out of a vengeful desire to hurt. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Strongmen like Trump would destroy the planet out of pure spite – and Brazil shows we’re all in peril | George Monbiot
If Flávio Bolsonaro is elected, Brazil’s ecosystems will face collapse. The ruling class would rather burn the world than share it with the poor, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Outrage from climate campaigners as Jackdaw gas field gets the green light for new drilling
'A betrayal of all of our futures'
Jackdaw gas field approval triggers backlash from environmentalists.
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Even today, in the midst of climate breakdown, the interests of BP and Shell are mixed with the so called 'national interest'.
The extractivists of the Foreign Office
Britain has long been an Empire based on fossil fuels. And even today the interests of BP and Shell are mixed with the so called 'national interest'.
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'For us, hope is not lost because the land will regenerate.'
Trees, borders and environmentalist coalitions
Environmental activists camping in ancient trees halt border wall construction.
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Andy Burnham's Labour Government is about to cut heat pump support to spend more on the military.
Burnham's life and death decision
Andy Burnham's Labour Government is about to cut heat pump support to spend more on the military. A peculiar choice.
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The Foreign Office is working hard around the world to help Shell and BP secure contracts to explore for and exploit ever more oil and gas fields.
The extractivists of the Foreign Office
Britain has long been an Empire based on fossil fuels. And even today the interests of BP and Shell are mixed with the so called 'national interest'.
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'We didn’t want politicians, we wanted people who were passionate in what we believed in.'
'Our radical roots'
Green Party co-founder: 'Zack Polanski has rediscovered our radical roots'
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The existing neoliberal paradigm does not work for us in the basic sense of maintaining our life support systems.
We need a movement for self-rule
...And it's a play. Getting to the point on what we need to do next… without shutting things out.
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Slashing the heat pump scheme is a classic piece of Treasury short-term thinking.
Burnham's life and death decision
Andy Burnham's Labour Government is about to cut heat pump support to spend more on the military. A peculiar choice.
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Cutting down our forests for quick cash is like burning your house to stay warm for one night. We need forests more than forests need us. Protect our forests, protect our future. #SaveOurForests
The worst El Niño in a thousand years, it is set to take us past not just 1.5C of average global heating for a time, but 2C. A difference between what is merely dangerous climate change and absolute catastrophe.
Godzilla El Niño is coming
What does the approaching El Niño mean for the world’s economies - and for us?
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Thanks in part to the over-use of pesticides, Britain's farmland is heading into a dangerous cycle. The swing from drought to flood every year is getting more dramatic each year.
'We poison our soils for efficiency'
'The diet we feed our soil determines the diet that soil feeds us.'
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Both drought and flood are symptoms of the same cause. It’s not that we don’t have enough water. It’s that our soils can’t absorb it when it comes.
'We poison our soils for efficiency'
'The diet we feed our soil determines the diet that soil feeds us.'
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Industrial farms pump antibiotics into animals - making an antibiotic resistance time bomb for us all.
When antibiotics stop working
Antimicrobial resistance threatens our ability to treat infections and the safety of much of modern medicine - including surgery.
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A Green Party co-founder speaks to The Ecologist about the founding of the party, and their early vision for 'environmental and economic overhaul.'
'Our radical roots'
Green Party co-founder: 'Zack Polanski has rediscovered our radical roots'
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Protesters speak out against new oil & gas projects at this critical point in the fight against climate catastrophe
Andy 'must cap oil'
Protesters depict ‘heaven’ and ‘hell’ futures as they demand Andy Burnham, the British prime minister, reject new oil and gas fields.
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The logical response to the failure of everything is a movement of everyone
We need a movement for self-rule
...And it's a play. Getting to the point on what we need to do next… without shutting things out.
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