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…
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…
Net Zero: the Big Con
by Chris Lang | REDD Monitor Big Polluters are responding to the climate crisis. But that’s not necessarily good news. As a recent report highlights,…
‘Green Wall Street’: on the extractivist co-option of ecological politics
Where its capacity to betray any alleged values is concerned, the Australian Labor Party rarely disappoints. Since coming to power in the federal election in…
Australia’s lithium extractivism is costing the Earth
by Claire Burgess, with research assistance from Liz Downes and support from Aid/Watch and the University of Tasmania | @claireburgo ‘WHITE GOLD’ AND CLEAN ENERGY…
Against climate apartheid: Confronting the persistent legacies of expendability for climate justice
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2514848621999286 Abstract While the uneven causes and impacts of climate change are widely known, it is also becoming evident that many elements of the response…