The Grand Banks bloom! time to crack down on fish plundering
Like banks, habitats don't decline gradually. They tumble. Perhaps the most drastic example of a sudden collapse of an eco-system of late has been that in Canada's Grand Banks in…
From Here To Eternity – Nuclear Waste & The Far-Flung Future
Fukushima has pushed nuclear reactor safety - rather understandably – into mainstream political debate once again. But strange as it may sound, reactor safety is not at the top of…
Jewish National Fund: Zionism, ethnic cleansing and environmental racism
by Eurig Scandrett At its Annual General Meeting in May, Friends of the Earth Scotland members unanimously voted to endorse a campaign against the Jewish National Fund (JNF). It was…
The Global North – the need to prepare for two very different scenarios
The economic and political situation is clearly volatile rather than static. It can all go either way very quickly, that our response (or lack of one) is what will make…
What are current political conditions, and how could a Commons approach flourish in them?
In Robin McAlpine’s superb analysis (After the election . . . where next for Scottish Politics?) the Scottish Parliamentary Holyrood May 2011 election was about a long term process in…
Australia’s Carbon Tax: the ‘fair dinkum’ Transition
A Just Transition. A Carbon Tax that forces companies to take responsibility for their carbon emissions, ensuring that those paying are the ones on the top of the ladder. A…
Can we criticise the current system in a way that prefigures and enables a more just society?
In a recent interview, the BBC’s political editor Andrew Marr asks Noam Chomsky whether he thinks Marr is “self-censoring”. Chomsky replies by saying, in effect: No, there is no self-censorship…
Why do we knuckle under and accept a system driving us to extinction?
This is the fourth in a series of ‘Case for the Commons: the kinder Society we want’ posts - the fifth will try to begin answering the question: How can we…
What is the Commons, and how does it work?
This is the third in a series of ‘Case for the Commons: the kinder Society we want’ posts - the fourth will try to begin answering the question: Why do we…
The Commons is alive and well, and we can be part of it
This is the second in a series of ‘Case for the Commons: the kinder Society we want’ posts - the third will try and answer the question: What is the…