Environment

Posts relating to environmental issues

Fourth flood warning in 10 days as flood defence schemes flounder

By Jonathan Diebold The disaster movie 2012 shows a world ravaged by extreme weather events, apparently predicted hundreds of years prior by the Mayan civilisation. But it doesn’t take an ancient Mesoamerican prophecy to predict the floods which have afflicted Ireland recently,

Feb 6, 2026

Environment·World News

Fighting green imperialism and the threat of fossil fascism

By Philipp Chmel While the world is burning, the rulers of this capitalist hellscape continue to carry out, support and enable the ongoing genocides against the Palestinians — with ever new levels of horror and cruelty — and in Sudan. They sacrifice

Dec 10, 2025

Environment·News & Analysis

“We Can’t Eat Money” – Indigenous resistance and capitalist disregard at COP30

By Lenn Viken As the category five man-made hurricane Melissa swept the shores and lands of Jamaica in late October this year, delegates from countries all over the world were preparing for the UN climate summit COP30, held in Belém, a large

Dec 2, 2025

Campaigns & Issues·Environment·Featured Articles·World News

Scorched earth capitalism: Wildfires bring apocalyptic scenes to Los Angeles

By Isi Stewart Duran At the time of writing, firefighters in Los Angeles are warning of ‘explosive fire growth’ and ‘critical fire weather’ in the city and its surroundings, where at least 27 people have been killed and at least 31 people

Jan 17, 2025

Environment·Theory & History·What is Socialism?

Socialism 101: Is capitalism destroying the planet?

By Eddie McCabe In the midst of the carnage of the First World War, Rosa Luxemburg wrote of the crossroads capitalist society was standing at: “either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.” This idea resonates profoundly today. What it means is

Sep 6, 2024

Environment·News & Analysis·Northern Ireland

Lough Neagh: A case study in how capitalism kills the environment

By Oisín Hill Lough Neagh, Ireland’s largest body of freshwater, and the source of 40% of the North’s drinking water, is set for another year of poisoning by toxic blue-green algae. In summer 2023 a “bloom” of toxic sludge, formed from thick

Jul 25, 2024

Environment·World News

NATO military spending is a war on the climate

By Miranda Stewart At a time when reducing greenhouse gas emissions is more urgent than ever, a recent report makes clear that NATO military spending targets are pushing the world in the opposite direction. The report, ‘Climate Crossfire: How NATO’s 2% military

Feb 9, 2024

Environment·News & Analysis

Alarming biodiversity loss in Lough Hyne, Cork

By Caoimhe Lyons Lough Hyne is a semi-enclosed marine lake located in Carbery West, Co. Cork. In 1981, it was designated a nature reserve by the Irish government. This was largely due to its significance as a highly unique ecosystem; its biodiversity

Jan 31, 2024

Environment·World News

Oxfam Report: Richest 1% produce more carbon emissions than poorest 66%

By Jonathan Diebold From luxury yachts and private jets, to trips to space that can release 2-300 tonnes of carbon into the upper atmosphere in a single go, it’s no secret that the super wealthy are also super polluters. A recent Oxfam

Nov 27, 2023

Environment·Featured Articles·News & Analysis

#SaveOurShores: Nationalise Lough Neagh now!

By Peter McGregor This summer has seen a massive bloom of blue-green algae in waters all across the north. This has included Lough Neagh and the River Bann, North Coast bathing waters and lakes in Fermanagh. If you live in an area

Sep 15, 2023

Environment

Maui wildfires: Capitalism’s climate crisis is scorching the planet

By Mandy Gee, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the US) As of August 13, at least one thousand people are unaccounted for, and over 93 are confirmed dead in the deadliest disaster in Hawaii’s history: devastating wildfires that have wiped out thousands

Aug 18, 2023

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Environment

Fourth flood warning in 10 days as flood defence schemes flounder

Fighting green imperialism and the threat of fossil fascism

“We Can’t Eat Money” – Indigenous resistance and capitalist disregard at COP30

Scorched earth capitalism: Wildfires bring apocalyptic scenes to Los Angeles

Socialism 101: Is capitalism destroying the planet?

Lough Neagh: A case study in how capitalism kills the environment

NATO military spending is a war on the climate

Alarming biodiversity loss in Lough Hyne, Cork

Oxfam Report: Richest 1% produce more carbon emissions than poorest 66%

#SaveOurShores: Nationalise Lough Neagh now!

Maui wildfires: Capitalism’s climate crisis is scorching the planet

Socialist Alternative – Marxist journal of the Socialist Party

Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden