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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

Campaigns & Issues·Environment·News & Analysis

Emissions targets missed: The reckless climate policies of the coalition government

By Cathal Curran Ireland is to once again set to fall well short of its carbon emissions reduction target. The state has committed to a reduction of 4.8% in carbon emissions each year between 2021 and 2025, with an 8.3% reduction being

May 5, 2022

Environment

Do we need to go for the ‘Nuclear Option’?

With the climate emergency worsening by the day, many are understandably desperate for solutions, and in particular for alternatives to fossil fuels. In this context, the debate about nuclear power is reigniting, with even some on the left advocating for its use.

Apr 12, 2022

Environment·World News

Corporate destruction pushes Amazon rainforest to ‘dieback’ tipping point

By Dan O’Rourke The Amazon rainforest, the planet’s crucible of biodiversity, has been pushed by profit-based exploitation towards a chain reaction of “dieback”. A recent study has confirmed that the Amazon is reaching a tipping point in which trees die off en

Mar 11, 2022

Environment·News & Analysis

No more data centres — planet not profits

By Peter McGregor On Thursday 3 March, the Data Centres & Critical Infrastructure Expo is set to bring together construction companies and businesses who have vested interest in the growth of data centres in Ireland. The Expo is being held in the

Feb 25, 2022

Environment·World News

Climate jobs: Building a workforce for the climate emergency

By Chas Berry, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in England, Wales and Scotland) and NAPO trade union NEC member The recent publication of ‘Climate Jobs: Building a workforce for the climate emergency’ by the Campaign Against Climate Change Trade Union Group (CACCTU) is a

Feb 20, 2022

Environment·News & Analysis·Reviews and Culture

Review: Planet on Fire – A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown

By Mathew Lawrence and Laurie Laybourn-Langton Verso 2021 Reviewed by James Fleming Capitalism’s “solutions” to climate change are unfair or unworkable, when not outright disastrous. Using reusable coffee cups or paper straws won’t avert climate change. Telling ordinary people to buy expensive

Jan 11, 2022

Environment·World News

Climate catastrophe demands a revolutionary struggle for democratic socialism

By Arne Johansson, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna — ISA in Sweden The pitiful outcome of the Glasgow climate summit, COP26, has been greeted with anger and frustration by the world’s climate activists. Completely inadequate and ineffective market solutions mean a continued rapidly shrinking “carbon

Dec 28, 2021

Campaigns & Issues·Environment·Featured Articles·News & Analysis

A Socialist Climate Action Plan — For a World on Fire

Introduction We face the biggest threat to humanity in history. It is beyond all doubt, as reaffirmed by the latest IPCC report, that we are in the throes of a devastating existential climate and ecological crisis, caused by human activity — or

Dec 3, 2021

Environment·News & Analysis·Northern Ireland

‘Blah, Blah Blah’ from Stormont on the climate crisis

“Blah, blah, blah” is how Greta Thunberg has described what we get from politicians across the world. This is strikingly seen at the COP26 climate conference where world leaders “lobbied” to water down reports which expose the urgency of the climate crisis.

Nov 17, 2021

Environment·World News

Greenwashing at COP26

By Per Olsson, ISA Sweden The COP26 climate summit in Glasgow is a “global greenwash festival and a failure”, said Greta Thunberg when she spoke at the “Fridays For Future” event in Glasgow on 5 November. That demonstration was followed the next

Nov 12, 2021

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Fourth flood warning in 10 days as flood defence schemes flounder

Emissions targets missed: The reckless climate policies of the coalition government

Do we need to go for the ‘Nuclear Option’?

Corporate destruction pushes Amazon rainforest to ‘dieback’ tipping point

No more data centres — planet not profits

Climate jobs: Building a workforce for the climate emergency

Review: Planet on Fire – A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown

Climate catastrophe demands a revolutionary struggle for democratic socialism

A Socialist Climate Action Plan — For a World on Fire

‘Blah, Blah Blah’ from Stormont on the climate crisis

Greenwashing at COP26

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Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden