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Environment·Featured Articles·World News

El Niño adds fuel to the fire of climate catastrophe

By Isidora Durán Not a year goes by without climate scientists predicting record-breaking summer temperatures, and 2026 is no exception. Greenhouse gases are gradually warming the Earth towards catastrophic tipping points, but it is the sudden climate events intensified by this warming

Jun 8, 2026

Covid-19 Pandemic·Environment·World News

Climate catastrophe and Covid spurs human catastrophe in the Global South

By Robert Cosgrave The Covid crisis, reflecting the existing global inequalities of capitalism, hit the Global South, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, with extreme severity. What measly healthcare infrastructure was available crumbled in the face of the virus. Non-existent safety nets The economic impact

Aug 16, 2021

Campaigns & Issues·Environment·World News

IPCC’s report shows climate cannot wait — fight for a socialist alternative!

By Robert Bielecki, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna — ISA in Sweden The new major climate report from the UN’s climate panel, IPCC, is a devastating indictment of the world’s rulers and the capitalist system. It is warmer now than it has been for 100,000

Aug 12, 2021

Environment·Featured Articles·World News

Climate change: Prepare for mass protests at COP26

By Connor Rosoman, International Socialist Alternative We are living through a decisive period in the fight against climate change. A recently leaked report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has warned that at current rates, we are heading for 3C of

Aug 1, 2021

Environment·News & Analysis

Climate catastrophe: A socialist world is needed- now more than ever

The following is an extract from a speech given by Socialist Party member, Haritha Olaganathan at “The Rally for a Socialist World” (link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPdWsEuUIzw) organised by International Socialist Alternative. I’m really looking forward to the mobilisation in Glasgow in November [protests

Jul 27, 2021

Environment·Uncategorized·World News

No climate future without system change

Two years after the first global climate strike on 19 March 2019, despite the acute situation, Covid-19 has pushed the question into the background. Yet the coronavirus is in itself a judgement on the capitalist mode of production which destroys ecosystems and

Jul 8, 2021

Campaigns & Issues·Environment·World News

North America: Heatwave hell leaves death and destruction

By member of Socialist Alternative, our sister organisation in Canada The hottest place in Canada, Lytton BC, has burned to the ground. The mayor of the small village in the Fraser Canyon said “it would be a miracle if everyone made it

Jul 5, 2021

Environment·World News

G7 summit – capitalist leaders maintain course for climate disaster

By Ben Samson Every time the G7 leaders meet it is to discuss a range of hopeless solutions to an ever-growing mountain of crises that are being thrown up by capitalism. Before the first case of Covid-19 was even reported in 2019,

Jun 20, 2021

Environment·News & Analysis

Climate change: The costs of electric vehicles

By Davis Hay, Socialist Alternative — ISA in Canada Electric vehicles (EV) are hot news. Sales worldwide soared in 2020, increasing by 43 percent over the previous year. Automakers and governments are embracing new EV markets and pushing them as one of

Jun 6, 2021

Environment·News & Analysis

New Climate Action Bill: Still a weak response to urgent crisis

By Padraig O’Flynn To muted fanfare and coverage the government recently published its Climate Action Bill. The document might appear ambitious on the surface, but, on closer inspection, specific measures for achieving these targets are largely absent. Weak proposals Indeed, the most

Apr 14, 2021

Environment·News & Analysis

Gulf Stream slowing down – a tipping point in climate breakdown

By Ben Samson Climate change is becoming less and less of a gradual, linear process. Rather, the rate of increase in extreme weather events is becoming increasingly exponential. This can be explained by climate feedback loops. For example, rising temperatures resulting from

Mar 10, 2021

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