Protesters dressed as forensic investigators outside Barclays bank in Broadmead, Bristol, to protest against the financing of climate devastation by the bank, on September 5
THE trade-union movement must move away from the ideology that GDP growth is beneficial to society, the TUC heard yesterday.
Speaking at a fringe meeting on the case for a radical green new deal after Covid, author and Goldsmiths, University of London, lecturer at Jason Hickel argued that the pursuit of GDP (gross domestic product) is driving ecological breakdown.
“The idea that we need more GDP growth to improve people’s lives and create jobs is a lie,” he said at the event, organised by War on Want.
The future does not have to be climate chaos and social breakdown. MARC VANDEPITTE looks at the alternatives offered by the Global Justice Report, co-authored by Thomas Piketty
As fossil fuels have had their day, JOSIE MIZEN makes it clear that it is now the government’s responsibility to initiate the transition to alternative employment in a manner that is organised, efficient and effective
Witnessing a war of words at a meeting on tackling militarism at The World Transformed, BEN COWLES spoke to a union rep who is organising against war from inside the arms industry itself, to hear about worker-led solutions to ending weapons production
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results