Uniting The Climate and Housing Crises • Martha Dillon
Not only do insecure housing systems and growing environmental pressures concern the same buildings and the same people — they cannot be separated at all.
Essay
James Watt in Shenzhen • Ewan Gibbs
Past and present energy transitions have been motivated by the political and economic ends of industry and government, but they also create new opportunities for labour mobilisation.
• 13 min read
Against a Military Transition • Nico Edwards, Khem Rogaly
The "transition plans" of Western militaries are only viable responses to climate and ecological crisis when the causes of those crises are ignored. What is needed now is the drawdown, not the expansion, of military power.
• 18 min read
Market Failure • Gareth Bryant, Sophie Webber
Market-based climate policy — which strives to replace politics with “precision" — has failed. We need transformative, democratic solutions to address the climate crisis.
• 12 min read
Is The Future Worth It? • Liliana Doganova
We urgently need to transform our relationship to the future, freeing it from the logics of capitalisation and its unequal treatment of time.
• 9 min read
What is a Just Transition? • Mijin Cha
As the idea of the "just transition" has become mainstream, it has increasingly been co-opted. We need a transition away from both fossil fuels and from the extractive systems harming both people and planet.
• 15 min read
Downward Mobilisation • Advait Arun
Private investment cannot and should not drive decarbonisation. It's obvious: we need the state.