Green unionists: for jobs and the environment

Green issues have often been framed in terms of ‘jobs vs environment’. Protests focussing on the destructive environmental effects of coal mining, hydro schemes, logging operations in native forests, irrigation schemes, dairy farming, and so on, implicitly - and often very openly - suggest that such enterprises should be terminated. The impact of such closures would naturally [...]

Shock absorbers: protecting our movements and communities in times of turmoil and crisis.

While the world’s bankers, Central Bankers, and Governments wrestle with a financial crisis so large it has threatened – if it is not contained – to become a systemic crisis of capitalism, the rest of us watch and wait, and wonder what the effects will be.
We recognise the need for action, but we note the [...]

Ecological modernisation theory and the challenge to radical green politics

English Green Party candidate and Keele University politics professor Andrew Dobson has written that “the belief that our finite earth places limits on industrial growth” is “the foundation stone of radical green politics” (Dobson, 1995, p.72). For many radical greens, this view still holds today: there is understood to be a strong causal relationship between [...]

Robert Fisk, journalist

Robert Fisk doesn’t really stand out in a crowd: dressed somewhat inattentively, altogether unassuming, entering the hall with the latecomers. Not everyone seems sure which one of them is Fisk until he is introduced. But then he begins to speak. Fisk hates clichés but there is only one word to describe his audience: spellbound.

Papers on: Agricultural trade, Carbon Taxes, and one just for fun

Apologies for my lack of posts recently: I simply haven’t been doing the reading to have anything to say.
For today, I have a few links.