by Andrew Simms | 22 October 2019 | Blog, Rapid Transition
As the UK is revealed to be the biggest net importer of carbon dioxide emissions per person in the G7 group of wealthy nations, heterodox economist Katie Kedward spells out five reasons to question the UK government’s progress on tackling the...
by Andrew Simms | 13 October 2019 | Blog, Clearing the Air, Weather Bombs
Bill McGuire, Prof. of Geophysical & Climate Hazards, says that policing Extinction Rebellion looks like displacement by state authorities unwilling to act on rising seas In the battle against global heating and climate breakdown there are, at present, two front...
by Andrew Simms | 10 October 2019 | Blog, Rapid Transition, The Economics Reformation
Extinction Rebellion held a People’s Assembly in Parliament to identify new priorities for each government department, this is an adapted from Andrew Simms’ short speech on the challenge to the Treasury When he led the Treasury as Chancellor of the...
by Andrew Simms | 2 October 2019 | Blog
By David Boyle and Andrew Simms When car-crash politics proves such irresistible and distracting theatre, it is even more important to maintain a focus on our central, generational challenge, the prevention of climate and ecological breakdown, whatever happens with...
by Andrew Simms | 20 September 2019 | Blog, Rapid Transition
We all know there is a climate emergency, but what we can do about it? Any action capable of working at the speed and scale needed looks like a Green New Deal. Now there’s a proposal before Parliament to deliver one. Here’s Caroline Lucas writing in The...
