Tag Archives: Climate Change
Green Scientists Show Red Fire
Environmental researchers at state-owned group ISPRA were due to finish a rooftop occupation of their labs, as Freedom went to press, after negotiations were agreed over the firing of nearly one third of company staff. Last year saw 200 people sacked, while another 250 on temporary contracts have been put on notice that they could [...]
Planet Fucked- Official
In a unanimous statement issued on Friday 18th December the Governments of the world gave the go-ahead to runaway climate change. That’s about it from Copenhagen. There was no target for reducing carbon dioxide emissions, no limit to the level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, nothing more than a pious wish that average global [...]
COP15: Notes From Below
This December (ten years since the alter-globalisation movements took to the streets of Seattle to oppose the world trade organization) activists from across the globe will be descending on Copenhagen to protest the COP15 round of discussion. Has the UK Direct Action movement changed in the interceding years between these cycles of struggle? And what [...]
50,000 say No to Nuclear
Huge turnout on eve of German elections The largest demonstration against nuclear power since Chernobyl thronged Berlin on 6th September. Tens of thousands of people turned out to remind Chancellor Angela Merkel ahead of the elections on 27th September that her conservative Christian Democratic Union party, tipped to win, needs to rethink its stance nuclear [...]
Changing Our Perspectives To Climate Change
A look at the current issues surrounding climate change with three groups offering different insights on the subject. Camp for Climate Action explain what the climate camp initiative is and what it seeks to achieve, Workers Climate Action on the relationship between workers and climate change, and Anarchist Federation who present an overview of the [...]
Green Energy Benefits Workers
New research shows that renewable energy is safer for workers Workers employed in renewable energy producing industries are less at risk from workplace injuries than those in traditional fossil fuel industries new research reveals. Dr Steven Sumner of Duke University Medical Center, and Dr Peter Layde, Department of Population Health, Medical College of Wisconsin, have [...]
Battle For Climate Action
This year’s Climate Camp comes out fighting Environmental activists, eco-warriors, anarchists, leftists, green pressure groups and campaigners against climate change of all descriptions, from ex-Vestas occupiers to indigenous representatives from Canada’s First Nations, are gearing themselves up for an August bank holiday weekend of activities, discussions and protests to highlight the need for urgent action [...]
