The Durban conference on climate change is likely to be even more useless than its predecessors - James Turley argues it is time to serve notice on capital's stewardship of the environment The first casualty of war, they say, is the truth. The first casualties of an international conference of governments on climate change, on the ...
Capitalism and sustainability do not mix, says James Turley And it was all looking so rosy for the official green movement. After the low point that followed America’s failure to ratify the Kyoto protocol, and the election in 2000 of president George W Bush, who openly flirted with global warming denial, the tide slowly seemed to ...
Despite an SP and SWP presence, no one proposed the necessary solution to global warming, writes Simon Wells The Campaign Against Climate Change held its annual demonstration on a bitterly cold afternoon last Saturday, coinciding with the latest United Nations negotiations being held in Poznan, Poland, to agree a post-Kyoto deal. Starting from Grosvenor Square, the demonstration ...
Climate change and global warming can no longer be ignored or downplayed. The question nowadays is not whether there is an ecological crisis; it is how it is to be combated. As of yet, the most influential answers have come under a ‘green’ heading, with ‘green’ ideas being influential not only in terms of established politics ...
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The furore over The great global warming swindle is about more than climate change denial, argues James Turley After over a year of wrangling, the Office for Communications (Ofcom) media watchdog has found Channel 4 in breach of various sections of the broadcasting code, over the documentary The great global warming swindle. The programme triggered a serious ...
It is now clear that, if the slump in political activity among youth of the 1990s has recently subsided somewhat, the main beneficiaries of this have been liberal campaigning groups. People and Planet is the pre-eminent example, and its annual Shared Planet festival takes place at Sheffield University on November 16-18. The bulk of the ...
First published in Communist Student no.3 by Laurie Smith In the wake of the widespread flooding in June and July of this year, the worst on record, the government’s announcement that it will continue to approve applications for building on floodplains came as a shock to many. It is estimated that the number of people at risk ...