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Capitalism Versus Climate Justice – thoughts on my first and last experience of climate COP
In this essay I offer reflections from my experience at the COP27 climate conference in Egypt. … Continue reading Capitalism Versus Climate Justice – thoughts on my first and last experience of climate COP → Read more
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When #ClimateScam is Trending –rethinking climate comms
“We have a communications problem. Just as political support for climate action is growing, so political resistance to climate action is also growing. The use of the hashtag #ClimateScam has exploded since July of this year.”… Continue reading When #ClimateScam is Trending –rethinking climate comms → Read more
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The Lamborghini-Loving Culture Kills Life on Earth, but the Conference of Profits (COP) is fine with that.
Today I co-hosted a panel of women activists from the Global South, at COP27 in Egypt. We addressed a half-empty press conference room. I closed the session by condemning the charade that these conferences have become. As the live stream link wasn’t provided to us by the UN, I used my camera phone. The video… Read more
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Climate Honesty – are we ‘beyond catastrophe’?
This is an essay that responds critically to the widely read essay in the New York Times that appears to be calming the nerves of climate professionals here at COP27 and beyond. It is a 20-minute read. … Continue reading Climate Honesty – are we ‘beyond catastrophe’? → Read more
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Let’s have faith in reality and humanity, not the tired hopes of modernity
The owners, sponsors, advertisers and editors of popular publications are trying to convince themselves and the rest of us of that the system they benefit from doesn’t suck: to spin the perspective that it is not responsible for ecocide, the many millions now going hungry and the catastrophic climate disruptions to come. Therefore, they are… Read more
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4 years ago: “climate change is now a planetary emergency posing an existential threat to humanity”
4 years ago today, I gave a keynote speech at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. Soon after, a section of the talk was featured by the campaign group Extinction Rebellion (before they became famous). Here is a transcript of a section of that speech: “The Sustainable Development Goals offer one framework on public need.… Read more
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