Archive of Climate Change

The question for conservation is no longer whether we want or need radical change. It is already happening. The question is how we understand the pressures and help direct imminent radical change towards something positive. This is the crossroads facing the conservation community today.

How should we think through looming climate catastrophe and how can an understanding of political economy help in our fight for climate justice? 

A post-capitalist manifesto for conservation.

8 books that combine climate activism with anti-capitalist, radical politics. 

Is it possible to repair our climate? In these videos, Holly Jean Buck discusses the social and political transformations needed to repair our relationship to the earth. She is the author of After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration.

The scale of the impending climate crisis is now apparent to more or less everyone. Yet, whilst it's been the left that has taken the lead in reponding to climate change for several generations, it is increasingly the far-right who are developing political responses to catastrophe. This has been reflected in the growing eco-fascist movement, a movement who were parachuted to global prominence on the 15th March this year when one of their number murdered fifty people in two Christchurch mosques. In this article, Eleanor Penny analyses eco-fascism and asks what it will take the left to deal with the scale of the climate crisis.

The German engineer invented the engine that would bear his name to contribute to the development of agriculture. The success of this technology has made it the fuel of economic globalization, with peak oil and tens of thousands of premature deaths.