MARIA DUARTE picks the best and worst of a crowded year of films
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IAN SINCLAIR welcomes the first word on Transformative Adaptation, a new group that has grown out of Extinction Rebellion
AHEAD OF THE CURVE: Transition town are grassroot community projects that aim to increase self-sufficiency to reduce the potential effects of peak oil, climate destruction, and economic instability through localization strategies, especially around food production and energy usage. In 2005, the founding of Transition Town Totnes became an inspiration for other groups to form.
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STEVE JOHNSON picks his favourites from the many memorable albums of the year, and one stunning new festival
SIMON DUFF picks his favourites, from radical African-inspired electronic rhythms to improvisations on the organ
For GORDON PARSONS, a dramatic exploration of the abuse of young men at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre trumps Beckett, a couple of Hamlets and a bracing Candide
From feminist manifestos to exiled lovers to mythic islands, LEO BOIX selects the best fiction, poetry and non-fiction
FIONA O’CONNOR picks books and films that show defiance in the face of violence and injustice
Transformative Adaptation: Another World Is Still Just Possible
Rupert Read and Morgan Phillips, with Manda Scott, Permanent Publications, £10.95
IN 2024 the Guardian polled hundreds of leading climate scientists, finding almost 80 per cent expected at least 2.5°C of global heating by 2100, with almost half anticipating at least 3°C.
According to top climate scientist Professor Stefan Rahmstorf, a 3°C world will be “full of horrors” and “an existential threat to human civilisation.”
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