COP30 summit in Belém was a failure that highlighted the growing chasm between international climate policy and the reality of a warming world.
COP 30: entrenching the crisis of climate politics
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What America’s labour resurgence can teach unions abroad
The idea that workers should organise other workers is hardly a new one.
Amazon in Cape Town’s murky waters
AT THE CONFLUENCE OF THE Liesbeek and the Black Rivers in Cape Town, Amazon (the tech and retail coloniser, not the river) is building its South African headquarters. The R4.6 billion mega-development is on a site so significant it is not an exaggeration to call it...
The River Club development – SAME COLONISERS, DIFFERENT SHIPS
ON 18TH MARCH 2022, THREE days before Human Rights Day, Judge Patricia Goliath delivered a ground-breaking judgement. It confirmed that economic benefits can never outweigh the cultural and heritage rights of indigenous people. The judgement concerned a unique and...
Rio+20 Was a Predictable Bust | by Brian Mier
By 2012 the global warming crisis was supposed to be resolved. World leaders promised this 20 years ago at the Eco-92 Summit, where they introduced a new strategy called “sustainable development” that would enable market forces to save the environment through...
Why Ecosocialism Today?
By Joel KovelHomo sapiens have been contending with its effects on nature since Palaeolithic days and the first great extinctions wrought by hunting bands. But it was not until the 1970s that these became experienced as a great ecological crisis threatening the future...