Environment and climate
Red Pepper’s beginnings brought together socialist and environmentalist ideas, and this continues in our environment and climate section.
As today’s climate emergency makes this ever more vital, we cover the uneven impact of climate change on land and communities in the Global South, and how movements for degrowth and sustainable living can push governments and corporations to act beyond greenwashing or denialism.
Red Pepper’s beginnings brought together socialist and environmentalist ideas, and this continues in our environment and climate section.
As today’s climate emergency makes this ever more vital, we cover the uneven impact of climate change on land and communities in the Global South, and how movements for degrowth and sustainable living can push governments and corporations to act beyond greenwashing or denialism.
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Worker-led transition is essential climate action
Organised labour is central to successful decarbonisation and averting catastrophic climate breakdown, write Jake Woodier and Hilary Wainwright
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Hard truths in Brazil’s Lithium Valley
Inhabitants of regions like Brazil’s Jequitinhonha valley are confronting the global forces turning their lands into sacrifice zones for the ‘green transition’. By Alex Shankland, Anabel Marín, Bruna Viana De Freitas and Fabiana Soares Leme
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Transition troubles at the coalface
Forty years on from the miners’ strike, Britain’s transition away from coal highlights the complex challenges of decarbonisation, write Huw Beynon and Ray Hudson
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Key words: Degrowth
Filka Sekulova explains one of the concepts at the heart of climate and social justice activism
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Against climate fascism
Alex Roberts examines the multiple ways that the far right has responded to the climate crisis
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The GKN workers’ fight continues
The struggle for an ecological transition from below by Florence’s ex-GKN workers is alive, writes Lorezno Fe
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There is no climate justice without migration justice
The battle to tackle the climate crisis must also defend people’s right to move and their right to stay, argues Nick Cullen