The Relentless Morbidity of Environmentalism

It’s Caroline Lucas again. Caroline Lucas MEP, who is expected to be elected as the Green Party's first leader later this week, said: "People will be literally dying from cold this winter while companies like Shell and BP are making record profits – that outrages...

Watering Down Development

Before the abysmal British summers of 2007 and 2008, a series of hot summers lead to the inevitable speculation that the UK would, in the near future, have a summer climate like that of the Mediterranean. If only! This in turn fuelled speculation that the water supply...

Identity Crisis Politics

According to commentisfree, Ewa Jasiewicz is a writer, journalist, human rights activist and union organiser. In a recent post to the site, she identifies a split in the environmental movement between those who aim to stop climate change through ‘the system’, so to...

Backwards to the Future

Oxfam was once a charity set up to provide famine relief. It was hard to criticise without looking a bit mean. It is now a gigantic international NGO which influences the direction of policy towards and within the developing world. Like many other organisations, it...

We Have Ways of Making You Walk

Recently, we have discussed how Green is the colour of reinventing yourself, to make your washed out perspective seem fresh and relevant to today's world. Gay rights activist and Green Party Parliamentary Candidate, Peter Tatchell, clothes himself in alarmist...

Green Party Candidate Outed

Peter Tatchell, militant gay rights activist from the 1980s is reinventing himself as a Green Party Parliamentary Candidate for Oxford East. On commentissimplyabsurd, he writes today about a looming global oxygen shortage. Compared to prehistoric times, the level of...

Switch Off, Tune Out, Give Up

We were tempted by an advert in the Times (London) yesterday: Get your kids to help you switch-off this summer Yes folks, you too could buy your energy from n-power, who will, in return, encourage your kids to spy on you and make sure you don't lapse into climate...

Split Over the Atom

George Monbiot's recent conversion to atomic energy, on the basis that 'I have now reached the point at which I no longer care whether or not the answer is nuclear. Let it happen', continues to generate fallout. The latest is that Arthur Scargill, the man who led the...

Rewriting Slavery

In the August edition of History Today, Jean-Francois Mouhot argues that 'reliance on fossil fuels has made slave owners of us all'. Hmm. Most of us approach slavery with the underlying assumption that our modern civilization is morally far superior to the barbaric...

I Spy Green Spies…

Writing in the New Statesman about the make up of Climate Camp protest, Stephen Armstrong says, According to the private espionage industry itself, roughly one in four of your comrades is on a multinational's payroll. The idea that intelligence operatives are running...