Let Them Burn: The Logic of Capitalism Meets the Reality of Climate Change
In her piece titled “Let Them Drown: The Violence of Othering in a Warming World,” Naomi Klein takes aim at the handful of fossil fuel corporations who have...
As the climate clock strikes midnight it’s time to look to the morning
Climate change will profoundly reshape our world in the coming decades. Yet, in this article, I make a case for why we should not give in to despair and...
Queen’s University Belfast set to divest from fossil fuels
Queen’s University Belfast last week announced their intent to end all investments in fossil fuels by 2025. The announcement on the Queen’s University website states: “Following discussions with...
A Plea to Fellow Remainers – Our Best Chance Lies In Jeremy Corbyn
If you are a hard-core Remainer, it might present a depressing prospect that the Labour Party officially “accepts the result” of the referendum, but ask yourself this question:...
Northern Ireland: The Dirtiest Corner in Europe?
If post-Brexit UK risks being known once again as the “dirty man of Europe” then Northern Ireland would be its soiled undergarments. Ours is a jurisdiction replete...
In 2017, hope without organising will be futile
The week between Christmas and New Year is usually dense with year-end listicles and think pieces offering their assessment of the most pressing issues and events in the past...
Reflections on the fight for a frack-free Lancashire
The plans were loose; we would gather for a community conversation about what next now that Westminster has seen fit to drill the democracy right out of Lancashire...
Political engagement in the UK: Starting a conversation
Part of Bright Green’s new political engagement series As a species we face truly existential threats. The creeping financialisation of western economies is dampening innovation and progress whilst shackling...
To solve climate change, we have to learn to speak to our political opponents
Two weeks ago a brutal murder was carried out on a Labour MP, Jo Cox, as she finished up her surgery in her constituency of Batley and Spen, apparently...
The Paris deal did not fix climate change. But we will (and here’s how)
Let’s recap. Climate change is predicted to kill 250,000 people per year from malnutrition, malaria and other effects from 2010 onwards. These people will predominantly be the poorest. Rising...