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Tag: climate change

Global Heating, Climate Justice and Security

by Sam Adelman11 December 202010 December 2020

We are already in climate triage, argues Sam Adelman, and the responsibility to address global heating lies disproportionately with countries like the UK with the largest historic greenhouse gas emissions. Climate justice is the new imperative.

climate change, Justice

Nonviolent Direct Action: The Committee of 100 and Extinction Rebellion

by randlemj16 October 2020

Veteran peace campaigner Michael Randle reflects on his experience with the mass movement against nuclear weapons in the early 1960s and what lessons it holds for Extinction Rebellion and contemporary nonviolent protest movements.

climate change, nonviolence, Nuclear Weapons, protest

Facing the Truth: Engaging with the Climate and Ecological Emergency

by kingstonb14 September 2020

Why are we so unperturbed in the face of the catastrophic risk of ecological collapse? Psychologist Breda Kingston highlights the challenges, collective and individual, of confronting our ‘ecoanxiety’, embracing uncertainty and working together for change

climate change

No Climate Justice, No Peace

by Molly Scott Cato11 August 202010 August 2020

Molly Scott Cato argues that the unjust and unequal impacts of climate chaos, as experienced most acutely in Africa and the Global South, are deeply linked to centuries of racism and exploitation by colonialist European states.

BLM, climate change, Justice

Existential Risk and The Wellbeing of Future Generations Bill

by Natasha Brian27 July 202024 July 2020

Natasha Brian explains the challenges of convincing policy-makers to take future issues seriously and why scores of parliamentarians from across the political spectrum are backing the draft Wellbeing of Future Generations Bill.

climate change, existential risk

Sustainable Security: Defining, Measuring and Building Security after Covid-19

by Abigail Watson9 July 2020

Abigail Watson and Alasdair McKay make the case for Sustainable Security, incorporating a broader range of risk drivers and responses than the national security approach. Embracing this would be an opportunity for the UK to strategise a more secure society and world after Covid-19.

climate change, Covid-19, Inequality, Integrated Review

Will the UK Reduce its Military Carbon Emissions?

by Stuart Parkinson2 July 2020

The British military is taking some steps to curb its impacts on the climate. But its efforts will fail to have a significant effect without major changes in the UK’s national security policies, argues Dr Stuart Parkinson of Scientists for Global Responsibility.

climate change, Sustainability, UK Military
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