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• Environment (UK)

  Ecology (Britain): Johnson’s 10-point eco-plan

  6 December 2020, by THORNETT Alan

  Johnson’s much vaunted 10-point eco-plan is totally inadequate as a green recovery from the Covid-19 crisis – or build-back greener as he likes to put it, writes Alan Thornett. His claim that the package would create up to 250,000 jobs is a sick joke. Even the £12bn funding for it is fake, since (...)

• Environment (UK)

  Britain & Global South – Climate Justice: An open letter to Extinction Rebellion

  3 May 2019, by Wretched of The Earth

  “The fight for climate justice is the fight of our lives, and we need to do it right.” By grassroots collective Wretched of The Earth.
  This letter was collaboratively written with dozens of aligned groups. As the weeks of action called by Extinction Rebellion were coming to an end, our groups (...)

• Environment (UK)

  UK: Extinction Rebellion and Momentum join forces on climate crisis

  29 April 2019, by BUSBY Mattha

  Activists to rally at parliament urging government to declare environmental emergency.
  Momentum, the youth climate strikers and Extinction Rebellion are to unite in protest outside parliament on Wednesday as Labour calls on the Conservatives to declare an environmental emergency in a (...)

• Environment (UK)

  Britain: Extinction Rebellion have put climate back in the headlines. What should the next steps be for addressing the climate emergency?

  26 April 2019, by GUERRERO Dorothy Grace

  A boat named after Honduran environmental activist, Berta Cáceres who was murdered in 2016, blocked Oxford Circus, London.
  Extinction Rebellion’s sustained and inspiring civil disobedience actions that lasted for almost two weeks have put climate change issues front and centre where they belong. (...)

• Environment (UK)

  UK: for Extinction Rebellion, ‘Life or death’

  19 April 2019, by SEYMOUR Richard

  All disagreements aside, Extinction Rebellion is right to try to shut down the centre of London. It’s “Life or Death”, as they say. There is no middle ground. Either we drastically transform our metabolic relationship with the planet, or we prepare our extinction.
  Complaint about ’inconvenience’ (...)

• Environment (UK)

  London’s Air Quality Is a Problem, But Sadiq Khan’s Congestion Charge Isn’t the Solution

  18 January 2019, by JAFRI Kulsoom , MACNAMARA Charlie

  If we’ve learned anything from recent history, it’s that even the most worthwhile issues and transformative politics can become co-opted by neoliberal politicians. The imminent spectre of climate disaster demands the most urgent response at all levels of government, but while the current (...)

• Environment (UK)

  U.K. : Shock after fracking protesters are given ‘disproportionate’ jail sentences

  26 September 2018, by Charity Today

  There is public outcry today after three environmental activists become the first people to be jailed for an anti-fracking protest in the UK.
  Simon Roscoe Blevins (26), and Richard Roberts (36) were given 16-months in prison while the third man Richard Loiou (31), was given 15-months on (...)