by Felix Naylor Marlow | Aug 5, 2023 | Lifestyle, Politics
Thoughts on avoiding the dystopia predicted in John Lanchester’s The Wall. The Wall, John Lanchester’s 2019 dystopian novel, is set in Britain after catastrophic climate change. Lanchester reverse-engineered what this world might look like by looking at maps of the...
by Seb Lowe | Jul 25, 2023 | News, Politics
Last week’s by-election results show the climate is not the priority for voters. Recent by-elections in Selby and Ainsty, Somerton and Frome, and Uxbridge and South Ruislip showed us three things: people have had enough of the Conservatives; efficient tactical voting...
by David Hatton | Jun 30, 2023 | Politics
The first of a new series exposing tactics oil companies, climate deniers and media entities use to deflect, dissuade and confuse climate change activism. Much like its namesake — artificial grass — astroturfing is the process of creating fake “grassroots”...
by Marc Dhennin | Jun 27, 2023 | Politics
Is the only way to give individuals agency and hold governments to account to hold a vote the 2015 Paris Agreement? Marc Dhennin argues the case for a referendum on the climate. Let’s call on governments to organise a referendum that will raise the question: Do...
by Nour Azzalini-Machecler | Jun 21, 2023 | Politics
A brief history of Conservative governments’ approach to climate change. On Monday June 12, with temperatures reaching 30℃ the night prior, the National Grid turned to coal to meet electricity demands caused by an increase in the use of air conditioning. Ending a 46...
by Tom Howarth | Jun 13, 2023 | News, Politics
Last month the European Council gave the final go-ahead to a regulation seeking to minimise the risk of deforestation and forest degradation. On May 16, 2023, the European Council agreed to bring into law historic new legislation banning the sale of several...
