On Disaster Nationalism and the Climate Crisis • Richard Seymour
In the wake of Donald Trump's stunning election victory, the march of "disaster nationalism" and the far right increasingly defines global climate politics.
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Beyond Human Security • Astra Taylor
Attempts to achieve security by trying to dominate nature are now backfiring on an unprecedented scale.
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Uniting The Climate and Housing Crises • Martha Dillon
Insecure housing systems and growing environmental pressures concern the same buildings and the same people — and cannot be understood separately.
• 11 min read
James Watt in Shenzhen • Ewan Gibbs
Past and present energy transitions have been motivated by the political and economic aims of industry and government. At the same time, they create new opportunities for labour mobilisation.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Downward Mobilisation • Advait Arun
Private investment cannot and should not drive decarbonisation. It's obvious: we need the state.