Climate March London: 29 November 2015
Assemble Park Lane London, 12 noon
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November 28 – Scotland and Wales marches
December 12 – Paris demonstration
Climate change
It’s capitalism or the climate – a review of Naomi Klein’s ‘This Changes Everything’
By Paul Lewis
The central thesis of Naomi Klein’s ‘This Changes Everything’ is that unless we ditch neo-liberal capitalism it won’t be possible to preserve a climate that can sustain human civilisation:
Keep up the pressure on climate change
By Paul Lewis
Today’s (7 March) Climate March marked the start of what needs to be a concerted push of popular protest in the run up to the critical inter-governmental climate talks in Paris this December.
US pushing climate costs on to developing world – Join the protests!
By Paul Lewis
The run-up to the critical 2015 Paris climate talks begins in earnest this week with the United Nations’ Secretary General’s ‘Climate Summit’ in New York. The likelihood of an inter-governmental deal has improved with the Obama administration bringing the USA properly into the talks. But the price of US participation has been an attempt to remove historic responsibility for causing runaway climate change as the basis of negotiations.
‘Adapt not prevent’ – the latest argument of the fossil fuel apologists
By Christina Prentice
The UN’s assessment report on the state of climate change back in September 2013 turned out to be a real tactical problem for the fossil fuel vested interests and their political mouthpieces. It found that scientists were 95 per cent sure that humans were causing global warming and that temperatures could rise by up to 4.8C by the end of the century.
Floods crisis shows urgent need to tackle climate change
By Bridget Robertson
The recent floods across the south west, which are set to spread this week further across the country, highlight the urgent need to both prepare for and do to everything possible to avert climate change.