15 January 2020

TV Review: Apocalypse Cow

Environmental journalist and campaigner George Monbiot recently narrated a thought-provoking documentary on Channel 4 - Apocalypse Cow.

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31 July 2019

Tories look in wrong place for climate solutions

Extreme heat caused misery for those stuck in blisteringly hot workplaces as well as thousands of stranded passengers, as our poorly funded infrastructure ground to a halt

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19 June 2019

Stop climate change - fight for socialist change

In recent months tens of thousands of students have walked out of schools

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15 May 2019

Profit system rapidly destroying environment

On 6 May, one of the most ambitious reports into climate change ever undertaken - the United Nation's Global Assessment Report on biodiversity - was released.

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12 April 2019

Extinction Rebellion

Thousands of people took part in the bridge-blocking protests called by Extinction Rebellion over a series of weekends in November 2018

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28 November 2018

We need system change to halt climate change

Was there ever a starker example of the destructive and unplanned nature of capitalism than the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) findings?

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Climate change protest in London on 12.4.19, photo Mary Finch

16 November 2018

Climate change protest in London on 12.4.19, photo Mary Finch

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31 October 2018

60% of wildlife wiped out - urgent action needed to save planet

Since 1970, 60% of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles have been wiped out due to deforestation, farming techniques and other human activity.

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10 October 2018

12 years to halt irreversible climate disaster. Capitalism's time is up

Real and immediate horrors face humanity even if the world limits global warming to the current target of 2°C.

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29 August 2018

Nationalise the energy giants to combat global warming

The oldest, thickest, most frozen sea ice in the arctic, to the north of Greenland, remains frozen all year. But this year it has broken away - twice! This has never been seen before.

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25 July 2018

Plastic waste - capitalism's Frankenstein monster

Plastic waste is now penetrating every corner of the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic and including the Mariana Trench, the deepest point on Earth.

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11 July 2018

Britain bakes as water pipelines leak

June was the driest month on record in south east and central southern England, while Scotland recorded its highest ever temperature of 33.2C in Motherwell.

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20 June 2018

No to Trump's climate change chaos

Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the non-binding Paris climate change agreement was not only a major defeat for even this weak attempt at tackling global warming, but also an example of his continuation of protectionist and isolationist policies.

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22 November 2017

Carbon dioxide hits 800,000-year high: end profit-driven pollution

The feared surge in global warming gases in 2016 has been confirmed - researchers found the highest atmospheric carbon dioxide levels in 800,000 years

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22 November 2017

The Socialist inbox

Do you have something to say?: Send your news, views and criticism in not more than 150 words to Socialist Postbox, PO Box 24697, London E11 1YD, phone 020 8988 8771 or email [email protected]

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6 September 2017

Extreme weather events and global warming

Is global warming worsening events such as the monsoon floods in Northern India and Bangladesh and Hurricane Harvey in the Gulf of Mexico?

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28 June 2017

Trump and the fossil fuel corporations - a lethal combination for the planet

On 1 June 2017 the world's TV cameras broadcast live as President Donald Trump announced that the United States will withdraw from the Paris climate accord

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7 December 2016

Victory at Standing Rock: US authorities agree to re-route oil pipeline

US authorities (subject to possible appeal) have agreed to abandon the planned oil pipeline through Standing Rock, North Dakota, after a months-long standoff between protesters and armed police.

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23 November 2016

UN climate change summit: more hot air from Marrakech

Trump's opposition to the already-insufficient Paris Agreement will allow other major polluters like China even more room to ignore it.

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25 May 2016

Canada: fire devastates Fort McMurray

Capitalism equals environmental destruction: On the evening of 3 May the entire 94,000 population of Fort McMurray was ordered to leave as an out-of-control wildfire swept towards it.

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