Australian climate policy has been reverse-engineered to protect the interests of the fossil-fuel industry When the Albanese government was elected, it was widely proclaimed that…
Social Ecology in the Capitalocene
Ben Debney | Harbinger Social ecology and world-ecology are two prominent streams of radical ecological thought and praxis today. Yet despite significant thematic overlap and…
The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism
Public understanding of, and outcry over, the dire state of the climate and environment is greater than ever before. Parties across the political spectrum claim…
Is ‘Green Capitalism’ total BS?
Adrienne Buller | Wired It seems like a self-evidently ridiculous question, borderline obscene—whales are majestic creatures whose worth transcends the human impulse to quantify, obviously!…
Biodiversity treaty: UN deal fails to address the root causes of nature’s destruction
Bram Büscher & Rosaleen Duffy | The Conversation A major biodiversity conference, recently concluded in Montreal, Canada, was billed as the event that will decide…
Violent silence: framing out social causes of climate-related crises
Climate change is a problem of unimaginable scope and magnitude – in cause, implication and responsibility. Predominant and ostensibly scientific frames for evaluating climate-related loss…
Brilliant fossil fuel lobbyists hoodwink world media into promoting nuclear fusion discovery as a climate change solution
By Lawrence Wollersheim | Job One Media Does anyone in the world’s media do in-depth research or fact verification anymore? Global media journalists are now…
10 myths about net zero targets and carbon offsetting, busted
The idea of carbon offsetting, which underpins so-called net zero targets, is founded on a number of myths. | Climate Change News In many cases,…
White Utopia/Black Inferno: Life on a Geologic Spike
by Kathryn Yusoff | e-flux Too much has been made of origins. All origins are arbitrary. This is not to say that they are not…
The world votes for “climate hell”
Something of epochal importance happened in Egypt last week – the most significant event since Cheops shoved up his triangular monument, four thousand odd-years ago…