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Climate chaos – wilfully looking the other way
The British government’s current policies are about as far from being consistent with Britain’s net zero plan as it is possible to be, argues RICHARD HEBBERT
Extinction Rebellion demonstrators take part in a rally in London, on the last day of the environmental action group's four days of action that they have called "The Big One". Picture date: Monday April 24, 2023.
Join the traditional march from Clerkenwell Green, which will bring together countless international workers’ organisations in a statement against the far right
The money tap to anti-Cuban agitators will never be shut off under Trump
Mountains of research show that hardcore material harms children, yet there are still no simple measures in place
We face austerity, privatisation, and toxic influence. But we are growing, and cannot be beaten
Trump’s economic adviser has exposed the actual strategy: forcing other countries to provide financial support for US hegemony
Activist Angie Zelter has been arrested more than a hundred times. She’s not stopping now, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
THE effects of climate change are plain to see. Over recent months we have seen excessive temperatures and wildfires in southern Europe, while the US and China have recorded the hottest temperature on Earth since records began.
For the global South, this is no more than business as usual, with flooding in the Indian subcontinent and desertification in Africa — where we have also seen the first famine caused by climate change, in Madagascar. In irreversible developments ice caps are melting, sea currents changing and permafrost thawing.
Climate organisations, most notably the UN International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), have reported recently that, far from containing post-industrial global warming to the 1.5°C set by the Paris Agreement, we will shortly pass that figure and are set to heat the Earth up by 2.5-3°C by the end of the century; temperatures which would be disastrous.
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Working-class perspectives are missing from crucial debates on international diplomacy, climate change and war — and Trump’s return makes it even more important we communists put them across, writes RICHARD HEBBERT
If you’re a monarch, president or oil industry big shot the floor is yours at Cop28 — there's little to no input from those that actually feel the effects of climate change, warns RICHARD HEBBERT
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